Good Friday
Lots of checks on “Car Friday”
The police increased their control of the car tuning scene in many places on Good Friday. On “Car Friday” there are traditionally often illegal car races or other traffic violations. photo
© Christoph Reichwein/dpa
Thousands of car posers met on “Car Friday” in the border area of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands. PS friends also came together in large numbers elsewhere – under the eyes of the police.
Thousands of members of the car tuner scene came together in numerous places in Germany on “Car Friday”. The The police sometimes had a lot to do with the checks. There was a mass meeting of the car poser scene in the border area of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands: According to police reports, up to 2,000 drivers of souped-up cars met there in the evening.
Since the police showed a strong presence, the meeting moved from Goch towards the Netherlands. About 15 kilometers behind the German-Dutch border in the town of Cuijk, 6,000 cars came together, a press spokesman for the Dutch police said. Around 10,000 people gathered there. The meeting was broken up with the support of German federal police officers.
Every year on “Car Friday,” horsepower lovers encounter a large police presence. She always makes it clear that she will show no tolerance towards speeders and posers. So-called tuners and posers still come together in large numbers again and again.
Adverse weather didn’t stop the tuning scene
According to the police, tens of thousands of tuning and motorsport fans met at the legendary Nürburgring in the Eifel. “Despite the adverse weather conditions, the visitors did not miss the opportunity to marvel at the vehicles, many of which were tuned, from the side of the road,” said a statement from the Koblenz police. There was a lot of traffic and a lot of traffic jams around the famous race track, said a spokesman for the Nürburgring.
In Hamburg, members of the tuning scene gathered for “Car Friday” with around 800 cars and 80 motorcycles. A total of up to 1,800 people were on site at the peak, a police spokesman said that night. Expulsions and fines were each handed out in the low single-digit range.
Hundreds of fans of the tuning scene also met with their vehicles in the Harz Mountains. After the Harz district made the already traditional meeting around the Rappbode Dam impossible by closing the tunnel there, the scene met in the parking lot of a shopping center in Blankenburg. According to the police, around 850 vehicles came to the meeting and at times around 1,100 people were there.
Despite the large crowds, there were no major traffic disruptions, a police spokeswoman said upon request. The tuning scene cooperated and things remained peaceful. In isolated cases, however, administrative offenses were identified.