• @arrow74@lemm.ee
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    2211 days ago

    On my vacation in Germany we were not once asked on the train for our passports. We are white. The police would demand every non-white persons’ “visa” and most of the time the questioned individual would produce a German ID or an ID from another EU member state.

    It was a sad sight.

    • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      911 days ago

      Pretty much. And it you look latino… You’ll be lucky if you don’t get interrogated or searched as I heard from close friends…

    • @Rob1992@lemmy.world
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      111 days ago

      Well there’s is some racism due to the begger problem in the trains, but they’re also just assholes

    • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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      110 days ago

      Couple of years ago only they would just check everyone’s id in a rather respectful way. Might depend on the border being crossed?

      • @arrow74@lemm.ee
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        210 days ago

        We took the trains from Germany to the Czech Republic and back. Then from Germany to Austria and back. Finally we went to France.

        I recall some checks on regional trains as well, including in Bavaria and I want to say around Berlin but I can’t remember where exactly.

        Not once were we asked though, all checks were selective and clearly biased