The police of Germany demanded to prohibit the selling of alcohol at the stations of the country, especially during the period when football matches are held. Moreover, during these days the passengers will not be able to bring a drink with them even to the car. The fact is that the burden on police in the days of football games has grown in recent years. The result is that fans every now and then strive to get into a fight, especially in a state of intoxication. Having forbidden the selling of alcoholic drinks at railway stations, police hopes to at least partly avoid clashes with the football fans.
Representatives of the Unions of German police officers held talks with the largest rail carrier of Germany Duetshe Bahn and the administration of the German Football Association. Duetshe Bahn has previously said that although he is not opposed to consider the possibility of ban on alcohol, nevertheless, opposes the imposition of harsh restrictive measures. According to the company, problems with drinking may occur only on the days of mass events, and in ordinary days a bottle of beer will not bring harm to any of the passengers.
One of the leading private carriers in Germany has already announced a ban on the use of alcohol on the trains – it is Metronom, a company operating in the North of the country. From November 15, 2009 it will be banned not only to drink, but also carry glass bottles. The reason for this decision was the outrageous behavior of drunken fans in the cars.
It was calculated in Metronom, that the excesses of rowdies annually cost the company 500 thousand Euros, and that’s without counting the costs for cleaning the trains from the resulted mess. The carrier asked the passengers and found out that 4200 from 5000 travelers agreed on the need to ban alcohol on trains.
The actions of baning alcohol wasn’t invented in Germany it was . For example, in Australia, in the “great race”, being held in New South Wales, the fans were ordered to drink no more than 24 cans of beer a day, or 4 liters of wine. The police of Australia introduced such severe restrictions to protect the spectators of Bathurst 1000 from the drunken rampages of fans.
At the end of May 2009 in Rome, in the final game of the Champions League, which went to see 67 thousand tourists, fans, city authorities, the selling of alcohol was banned for almost two days beforehand. And the ban on the sale of alcohol was being acted throughout the city, including airports, train stations and other transport terminals.
In Moscow, the authorities plan to ban the sale of distilled spirits in bars and restaurants of the capital’s airports, explaining it with the fact that airport is a place of increased danger, therefore, to sell alcohol there is illegal or at least dangerous. In addition we would like to suggest to visit alcohol recovery centers if one has such problems.
Alcoholism have become major problem not only in Germany but in whole world , so basically if you think that you’re using to much alcohol, it will be wise to ask yourself a simple question do I have a drinking problem? and try to solve the problem until it will run into a much more complicated one.
