Corona ski dispute: Mayor Söder warns of great danger in the Alps - "reject any responsibility"

Due to Corona, the lifts will be shut down in all of Bavaria until January 10, 2021.

This presents mountain rescuers in particular with special challenges.

• The mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen has turned to Prime Minister Söder.

• She demands a statement from him about how rescue workers and the avalanche commission should work without mountain railways.

• Due to Corona *, the lifts will remain closed until January.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

- Since the Prime Minister's meeting on Wednesday (December 2nd) it has been clear that the strict

will be extended until January 10th.

In addition to gastronomy, hotels and the cultural sector, this affects one of the most important branches for Bavaria:

.

This is why numerous mayors have now turned to the Bavarian Prime Minister

(CSU)

in a fire letter

.

The mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen,

(CSU) did

not sign

.

Nevertheless, she made an important request to the country chief.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen: The avalanche commission cannot do its job without the mountain railway

On Thursday (December 3rd)

wrote

an open letter directly to her party leader in the

.

The reason: Despite the ban on

, she assumes that numerous

will be out and

about

in the Alps in the coming days and weeks.

Especially when, as predicted, it should snow heavily on the weekend.

For a

there is “nothing better than to leave your tracks in deep snow,” writes the town hall chief.

However, if there were accidents on these tours, the

would

find it difficult to get to the scene of the accident with the lifts turned off.

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen's mayor Elisabeth Koch calls for an opinion from Prime Minister Markus Söder.

© Peter Kornatz

Without mountain railways it is unclear how

should quickly get injured in accidents on the mountain, the CSU politician wrote to her party leader.

And the work of the

was also severely affected by the closure of the lifts.

"In addition, the question arises of how the

commission should act without being able

to reach the mountain

by

," the letter says.

Although the

is only responsible where the safety authority is responsible, that is not the case away from slopes and cross-country trails.

But due to lack of

increasingly use

the slopes to climb.

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen: The situation could already be dangerous at the weekend

"I would like to point out to you, dear Prime Minister, that we are expecting significant snowfalls in the next few days," warned

.

That could

attract

tourers.

So not much time

for

to react.

If there were incidents with

this

coming weekend

, it would not be on the cap of the mayor.

Because

continues: The

rejects any responsibility, "should there be an avalanche event on our corridor and this

".

Further news from Garmisch-Partenkirchen can be found here.