Parties, in spite of Corona: No alcohol sales in Hamburg's trendy districts

strut it, what you would need to make here, says Falko Droßmann. In the case of the Great freedom on the Hamburg "Kiez", the Name is also a promise. The SPD politician Droßmann forwarded to the district office in the middle of the Hanseatic city, one of the St. Pauli with the "Kiez". On Tuesday, he sits at a press conference and says it would also force in Corona-times inconsiderate and space, partying and drinking party people you are now but to take this action. "We don't want this, it fits to our district, but we have no other choice." The celebration of quarter of the Hanseatic city to be drained, at least a little bit. Everything in the fight against further spread of the Coronavirus.

Matthias Wyssuwa

Political correspondent for the North of Germany and Scandinavia with headquarters in Hamburg.

On Tuesday, the Hamburg Senate has created the legal conditions to ensure that the districts can restrict the out-of-house sale of alcohol to your party miles in the Corona of a crisis; be it in kiosks, petrol stations, or the so-called alley to the sale of alcohol from the catering out operated. In view especially of the redoubt around the Rote Flora in the district of Altona, and two places in Ottensen next to the neighborhood. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from 20 o'clock in the evening until 6 o'clock the next Morning, is to apply the ban. Of which alone were affected in the area of St. Pauli 75 retailers, says Droßmann. On Monday, we will review what brought the ban.

With the ban, the city responded to the excesses of the past weekends. Now the Problem of the celebration of masses on the streets in the neighbourhood or in the hill is actually nothing New. For years, residents of the so-called trendy district complain about the "Corners", such as the community hanging around is called drunk. Also in St. Pauli, there were already protests against cheap alcohol from all the kiosks, not enflames only the mood on the streets quickly, but also restaurateurs sucks.

the past week had shown that not even the Corona-crisis can the party stop but. Images from the nights made it clear that neither distance were observed Hygienregeln. Dense the crowds were on the hill, the left ball man moving. In the neighborhood, where, according to Droßmann more "experience-oriented young people" were on the move, unlocked the police the freedom due to Overcrowding several times. On several occasions, the situation had come to the "Corner-focal points in the neighborhood and in the hills" out of control, criticized the oppositional CDU.