Europe | Law and order poolside
Germany tries to stop brawls in public swimming pools
Summer tensions are high at the Schwimmbad
|BERLIN
Summer in Berlin is not dull this year. More than 100 police spent July 20th chasing reports of a stray lion. None turned up; it was probably a wild boar. So Berliners returned to the other big local debate: whether police should patrol municipal pools to prevent brawls.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Law and order at the Lido”
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