suicide waters
Operational figures of the Berlin fire department : Possible suicide:
Number of rescue operations increases massively
The rescuers moved 2020 so far 294 times under the keyword
"Almost strangulation/ hanging" off.
In the previous year, there were three comparable deployments, in 2018 seven.
Berliner Zeitung', 10.11.2020
The Berlin fire department is registering an extreme increase in operations in the current year under the keyword "Almost strangulation/hanging, now awake with breathing difficulties". In 2018 there were seven deployments under the internal deployment code 25D03, in 2019 there were three deployments according to the Senate Interior Administration. In 2020, there were already 294 assignments under this code by October. This is the result of a response from the Senate Department of the Interior and Sport to a question from individual member of parliament Marcel Luthe.
Due to data protection, it is not apparent from the pure deployment figures,
where the extreme increase in the numbers for the keywords "almost strangulation/ hanging" comes from. According to statement of Micha Quäker, active firefighter and regional chairman of the German fire-brigade union,
the alarm keywords, the internal categorization and the allocation of said cases within the fire department statistics has not changed in the last three years.
From his daily experience as a firefighter on duty he could confirm: "The suicide rate goes in these times upward, like also the cases of domestic force. Quäker told the Berliner Zeitung.
In other countries, comparable developments are directly explained by the corona pandemic and the accompanying circumstances. This was the title of an article on the pandemic in the USA in the "Tagesschau":
"US scientists warn that in the next few years up to 75,000 more Americans will die either through alcohol or drug abuse or through suicide".
Jack Westfall, director of the Robert Graham Center in Washington, said on ARD television that job loss and the associated existential fears most often led to suicide. "The second factor is deep social isolation. We have never had anything like this before. Neither here in the USA nor anywhere else. We know that social isolation causes psychological disorders and thus greatly facilitates suicide and drug abuse.
Marcel Luthe, who had asked about the figures, told the Berliner Zeitung about the new figures of the Senate Interior Administration: "Every single one of these cases is the result of deep despair. Where this comes from and why there is such an immense increase, the Senate must clarify and immediately eliminate the causes, which in many cases can cost human lives".
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
[7. Dezember 2020]
suicide waters
Operational figures of the Berlin fire department : Possible suicide:
Number of rescue operations increases massively
The rescuers moved 2020 so far 294 times under the keyword
"Almost strangulation/ hanging" off.
In the previous year, there were three comparable deployments, in 2018 seven.
Berliner Zeitung', 10.11.2020
The Berlin fire department is registering an extreme increase in operations in the current year under the keyword "Almost strangulation/hanging, now awake with breathing difficulties". In 2018 there were seven deployments under the internal deployment code 25D03, in 2019 there were three deployments according to the Senate Interior Administration. In 2020, there were already 294 assignments under this code by October. This is the result of a response from the Senate Department of the Interior and Sport to a question from individual member of parliament Marcel Luthe.
Due to data protection, it is not apparent from the pure deployment figures,
where the extreme increase in the numbers for the keywords "almost strangulation/ hanging" comes from. According to statement of Micha Quäker, active firefighter and regional chairman of the German fire-brigade union,
the alarm keywords, the internal categorization and the allocation of said cases within the fire department statistics has not changed in the last three years.
From his daily experience as a firefighter on duty he could confirm: "The suicide rate goes in these times upward, like also the cases of domestic force. Quäker told the Berliner Zeitung.
In other countries, comparable developments are directly explained by the corona pandemic and the accompanying circumstances. This was the title of an article on the pandemic in the USA in the "Tagesschau":
"US scientists warn that in the next few years up to 75,000 more Americans will die either through alcohol or drug abuse or through suicide".
Jack Westfall, director of the Robert Graham Center in Washington, said on ARD television that job loss and the associated existential fears most often led to suicide. "The second factor is deep social isolation. We have never had anything like this before. Neither here in the USA nor anywhere else. We know that social isolation causes psychological disorders and thus greatly facilitates suicide and drug abuse.
Marcel Luthe, who had asked about the figures, told the Berliner Zeitung about the new figures of the Senate Interior Administration: "Every single one of these cases is the result of deep despair. Where this comes from and why there is such an immense increase, the Senate must clarify and immediately eliminate the causes, which in many cases can cost human lives".
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
[7. Dezember 2020]