Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - According to the police, the start of the street carnival was quiet and peaceful in many parts of the country. In the Rheinisch-Bergisch district, for example, the police were rarely required. District-wide checks did not find a drunk driver. Not a single carnival participant had to spend the night in a detention cell.
In Aachen, too, it was quiet on "Fettthursday", as old women call it there. A total of eleven criminal proceedings were initiated there in connection with carnival. At the last carnival before the pandemic, there were 16. The police in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss only had half as many carnival operations as in the year before the pandemic.
In the Euskirchen district, the celebrations also remained unobtrusive from the police point of view. After a carnival celebration in Blankenheimerdorf, however, the criminal police are investigating a dangerous physical injury. A 17-year-old suffered a superficial cut when a larger group of people became violent. In Mechernich, a woman reported sexual harassment. A 28-year-old from Cologne was identified.
The police in Viersen-Dülken had something to do: the police counted 27 dismissals and 18 people in custody as well as seven physical injuries and two sexual harassment. A fool was caught with a forbidden knife.
In three cases there were attacks on police forces. All of the accused have been identified and reported, a judge ordered blood tests and confirmed the arrests. The police did not give comparative figures there. In the strongholds of the Rhenish carnival, the police want to take stock during the day.
