Yes, is it already a security conference again? Some of you will ask yourself that these days in the face of security officers with earpieces who, because of the upcoming G-7 meeting, are only moderately inconspicuous in front of relevant Munich luxury hotels and restaurants, and of heavy Federal Police helicopters plowing through the airspace over the city , always in a north-south direction and back, from tunnel closures on the Mittlerer Ring and no stopping zones in the city center.
For the Munich police, the annual Siko in mid-February is already a fixed date in the operational calendar, if it is not being slowed down by Corona. For the people of Munich, too, who, to be on the safe side, then check again to see whether a no-parking zone has grown up next to their parked car overnight. And who like to get terribly upset about the whole fuss, which they somehow like when they are allowed to guess whether “Macron” or “von der Leyen” just roared past them in the column of vehicles. Now all the top politicians roar on to Elmau Castle below the Dreitorspitze near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where the G-7 summit is taking place. And the Munich grumpy reasons should be joined by two more: that it gets brutally narrow on the way to what seems to be Munich’s only panoramic mountain, the Jochberg – and not only on the Kesselberg car park or on the summit. And that the Partnachklamm is closed until Tuesday because of the summit. The Partnach Gorge! Locked!! The summit!!!
The few who remain behind in summery Munich without such a grant hope – with some justification – that the large-scale demonstration, at which tens of thousands want to read the riot act to the powerful of the world on Saturday, will be a similar summery-happy happening as on the same occasion before seven years. The only battle fought back then was against thirst and heat. And police and protesters passed him side by side.
THE DAY IN MUNICH
60 meters should be enough How high can buildings be built in Munich in the future? The ÖDP wants to advance a decision on the issue. The citizens’ initiative “High-rise Stop” that she supports is slowly getting underway after a sluggish start.
Former Pope Benedict under pressure Joseph Ratzinger’s successor as Archbishop of Munich, Friedrich Wetter, would face the complaint of a victim of abuse. What are the chances of success of the complex procedure.
While stocks last Munich meets Sapporo: Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter and Japan’s Consul General Nobutaka Maekawa present the first Bavarian-Japanese partnership beer – it is mainly served at the Olympic celebrations.
Again restrictions on U3 and U6 As soon as the work between Goetheplatz and Implerstrasse is finished, passengers have to be prepared for impairments on the two lines in the evenings and at weekends. The reason this time: the work on the Sendlinger Tor station.
Wrong police officer faces imprisonment A man with a twenty-time criminal record stole more than 200,000 euros from senior citizens. Now he has to answer in court.
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