Mr. Schreiber, you have a restaurant in the center of Sylt, which recently attracted a lot of punks.

How is your summer business going so far?

David Lindenfeld

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crappy so far.

In June we had three weeks with really heavy weekends because of the punks.

Pentecost was really awesome.

The other two weekends after that too.

It's less now.

Luckily it's been relatively quiet for three days.

In front of your restaurant "Cropino" was the big meeting place for the punks.

They say it's quiet at the moment.

What picture do you see when you look out now?

I'm just looking out of here.

There are some normal people walking by.

Before it was five punks, now I'm only seeing three.

You're sitting here with a shopping cart and drinking beer.

How many have been on site in the past few days and weeks?

At Pentecost there were up to 150 on the square.

It really was an exceptional situation.

Nothing worked.

The place was totally besieged, it was no longer possible for normal people to get through.

That's why we had nothing more to do in the restaurant.

During the week only the stubborn stayed.

That was limited in the last week.

There were 20 or 30. They've all spread out relatively.

You can still see them in the city.

I don't know exactly where everyone has gone.

How did the punks behave?

It was really extreme in the first two weeks.

When these crowds were here, there were also a few that were aggressive.

There were fights outside the door.

There was bullying and loud punk rock music was heard.

With us you could no longer sit outside and eat comfortably.

That was no longer possible due to the volume and the shouting.

The mayor recently said that it was a "quite unexciting situation" and that "something was being hyped up in the media that isn't really there"...

The mayor isn't there either.

It was here once when the fence on the Wilhelmine fountain was erected.

I also wondered why he didn't sit down here on a Friday or Saturday night.

He didn't get through the heavy weekends.

We experienced it live when we grilled and made a fire here.

We called the police.

But she didn't even get out.

There were fights here.

In broad daylight people peed on the square.

Those were crass conditions.

There were dives into the wells, they also had inflated unicorns in them.

It's funny when you look at it that way.

You don't mind that at all.

I'd sit down with them and have a bottle of Korn.

But it was extremely damaging for us

because it put off the guests.

On some days we didn't need to open at all because nothing was going on at all.

How much has the number of visitors dropped at your place in the past few weeks?

We sometimes stood our legs in the stomach.

The first two weeks of June we really had a massive drop in sales of 80 percent.

That was really intense.