The shadow of the plague of clowns, macabre begins to cernirse on the north of Europe with the arrival of Halloween and the cases, ranging from a bad joke to the indiscriminate attack to death, are multiplied from Sweden to Germany.
incidents are counted already by tens, the fear spreads and grows also the list of those who have been injured because of this sinister behaviour, which began in the united States and that is based on the subgenre of scary movies born with the film version of “It”, a book by Stephen King.
The episode more serious, is recorded in these countries occurred ten days ago in Varberg, in western Sweden, when a man disguised as a clown stabbed him without a word to a young man and gave chase, causing minor injuries to his shoulder.
Aachen, in western Germany, a young cyclist was injured this weekend after falling from his bike after being scared by a clown macabre that jumped out among the bushes.
In the town’s Danish Frederiksværk, north of Copenhagen, another clown accident caused last week a car accident to scare the driver, though he was unharmed.
Especially in Sweden and Germany there has been a spike in cases in recent days, with stories of clowns that comes out of nowhere with knives, axes and even chainsaws to scare pedestrians or passengers of a commuter train, pulling a person to the ground or even push it into a source.
The allegations have multiplied in the police stations of those countries that also receive numerous calls from people -usually older – concerned about the situation.
“We have already called many of the older people who are very concerned by this type of information,” explains a spokesperson of the police in Neubrandenburg, Germany, to the newspaper “Bild”.
The political class has already begun to react to treat to prevent a rebound of these events in the days leading up to Halloween (October 31), a feast of anglo-saxon origin that is increasingly being celebrated in Europe.
The minister of Interior Swedish, Anders Ygeman, it was clear recently when he stated: “we do Not want to have situations where some people may get into trouble by putting on a mask of a clown, perhaps as a joke”.
As noted, the security forces Swedish “are going to be on alert” after the accumulation of cases in the past few days in different countries.
Joachim Herrmann, responsible for Internal affairs of the German federal state of Bavaria, said today in statements to the “Passauer Neue Presse” that “this kind of jokes in bad taste can have fatal consequences” and assured that the police will prosecute without exception those who carry out these practices.
The responsible of Justice of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Thomas Kutschaty, stressed in statements to the newspaper “Bild” that “threaten of death is not fun, but a crime,” punishable by up to a year in prison.”
police in the German state of Baden-Württemberg has recommended to the citizens not to flee from the attackers, but that face, but not with violence, but with a resounding “oh, get out of here!”.
“we Consider it very dangerous to these people of a few lights,” said a police spokesman.
A side effect of this fashion of bad taste are the professional clowns, explains the German Association of Employers of Circus, which they perceive as an clear damage to his image.
“a clown should be to associate the fun, the joy, and awkwardness. People should laugh about them. With these attacks the clowns are converted into objects of fear,” lamented the president of this group, Dieter Seeger.
In the town norway Frederikstad an infant school has decided to ban clown costumes at the Halloween party after several students denunciasen have been frightened by clowns.
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