It is the abrupt end of a Shrove Monday parade: in Halle there is an accident between a theme car and a pedestrian. The move is then aborted. It is still unclear how badly the woman is injured and what exactly happened.
During the Rose Monday parade in Halle, there was an accident with a motto car and a pedestrian. The woman was taken to a hospital, a police spokeswoman said. The Shrove Monday parade was cancelled. The closing event on the market square was also cancelled.
How the accident happened is still unclear. The police also gave no further information on the identity of the woman and the degree of her injury. According to the “Bild” newspaper, the woman fell under the front tires of the motto car. Emergency doctors carried out life-sustaining measures on site.
In the carnival stronghold of Mainz, on the other hand, the organizers and the police drew a consistently positive conclusion from the Rose Monday parade: “We are very satisfied: record participation in fantastic weather – and still peaceful,” said the spokesman for the Mainz Carneval Association (MCV), Michael Bonewitz, in the afternoon .
Around 555,000 people came after a two-year pandemic break in sunshine and mild temperatures. “Perhaps even more, the stream of people is not ending yet.” Only one crime was registered by 2 p.m., it was a violation of the Narcotics Act, said police spokesman Rinaldo Roberto. “That’s impressive little.”
Since the end of the Corona measures, all folk festivals have been largely peaceful. Also the street carnival: “Everyone has been celebrating peacefully since Altweiber-Thursday.” 150 children and young people were checked by the police and the youth welfare office, 65 of them were drunk. About 60 liters of alcohol were taken from them and destroyed because of the protection of minors, reported Roberto.
