New research by star show, as well as the statements in the investigative committee of the Mainz state parliament, how amateurish the district of Ahrweiler and especially district administrator Joachim Pföhler operated the civil protection. The entire management itself was a catastrophe, say experts – they state human error at all levels.
Stephan Wefelscheid, 43, doesn’t even mention the word “scandal” when the incomprehensible jumps out of the files. The investigations are still ongoing, he often says, and he doesn’t want to anticipate them. The lawyer from Koblenz is the chairman of the opposition Free Voters state parliamentary group in the Mainz investigative committee on the flood. In one scene, however, he gives up his reticence. It is the moment when the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD), at a press event on July 15, 2021 in the Ahr Valley, praises the district administrator of the Ahrweiler district, Jürgen Pföhler, with the words: “I really want to thank the district administrator for the Willingness to work here on site.”
“The district administrator has failed in all matters”