Overview
- Syringes and drug paraphernalia are increasingly visible in busy subway stations and parks, illustrating how consumption has shifted to highly frequented public areas.
- Fixpunkt warns that the arrival of crack and a large-scale cocaine trade has introduced a new layer of complexity to Berlin’s street-level drug markets.
- Despite heightened visibility, service providers lack reliable data on whether the overall number of users in Berlin has actually grown.
- The group criticizes current policy as slow and dependent on displacement tactics—such as park closures and police cordons—that fail to reduce drug trafficking.
- Fixpunkt points to Swiss tolerance zones as a model for safer consumption rooms and calls for targeted policing against weapons and violent disputes among dealers.