136 people died in the flood disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate, including 135 in the Ahr region and one person in the Trier area. Thousands of houses were destroyed, and roads and bridges were washed away.
The public prosecutor's office investigated for more than two and a half years on suspicion of negligent homicide in 135 cases and negligent bodily harm in office through omission. No sufficient suspicion against former Ahr district administrator Jürgen Pföhler (CDU) and an employee from the crisis team, said the head of the Koblenz public prosecutor's office, Mario Mannweiler, on Thursday. The Ahr flood brought "unspeakable suffering to the people," said the public prosecutor, who added that the disaster control management system had a "series of deficiencies" that did not constitute criminal liability for the former district administrator, who has "political and administrative responsibility" for the disaster. The disaster control system had "quite considerable deficiencies' that an expert identified.