US EditionBerlin in Winter Chaos: Senate Under Heavy Fire – “This Borders on a Scandal”
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The sovereign is the one who uses salt in a state of emergency. Even if Berlin's winter chaos can no longer be explained rationally, our columnist tries it anyway – and gets the Governing Mayor Kai Wegner together with Carl Schmitt from the ice.
Did they stand idly by? Black-red Senate under fire: Other parties criticize late release of road salt – numerous injuries in Berlin.
In Berlin, snow and ice smoothing cause about 40 serious injuries every day, especially fractures. "The hospitals are overloaded, additional capacities are created," says the managing director of Musculoskeletal Surgery at Charité Ulrich Stöckle.
The walkways remain icy, even at temperatures around the freezing point the local traffic capitulates: Why are we so quickly overwhelmed with the winter weather?
After the release of Streusal for Berlin walkways the criticism of the Senate remains loud. One question is why it took so long until the decision.In the discussion about the use of Streusal on icy Berlin walkways there is still criticism of the black and red senate. "CDU and SPD did not recognize the problem first and then only caused chaos. To the sorrow of the Berliners, who trembled through Berlin and seriously injured themselves," said Gree…
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