Aldi: Senior citizen is asked for consideration because of Corona - and is completely freaking out

Uncomfortable situation in an Aldi branch: Even two law enforcement officers had to intervene when a senior woman went completely nuts. 

• A customer refuses to wear a mouthguard at Aldi .
• The cashier asks two law enforcement officers for help.
• The pensioner's reaction is completely unforeseen.

Wesseling - Shopping tours to the supermarket are not particularly relaxed at the moment. A senior woman went crazy because of the corona protective measures in an Aldi branch  in Wesseling near Cologne, so that a criminal complaint was filed.

It was more of a coincidence that the law enforcement officers were on site, reports express.de. According to the portal, a cashier asked the officials for help because the elderly woman refused to wear a face mask * .

Aldi customer attacks employees and officials - because of corona trouble

According to the police , the pensioner was already very annoying at the time and, among other things, drove an Aldi employee with the shopping cart against his heels. The reproof of the law enforcement officers and the request to identify themselves caused the 69-year-old to explode, according to express.de : she haunted the officials and Aldi employees. These informed the police.

According to express.de , the police suspected that the woman had deliberately haunted herself to infect others with the coronavirus * . Since the easing, the risk of infection has increased again, as the Corona map of Germany * shows. An information if she was infected with Corona, refused the woman. But she did not have a fever , as it turned out during the measurement by paramedics.

Corona scandal in Aldi: Was it alcohol?

The main reason for her aggressiveness may have been that she was drunk. A test was not feasible, but the strong smell of alcohol in the breath suggested this presumption according to the police. The law enforcement officers filed a criminal complaint for assaulting law enforcement officers because of the spitting attack.

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