Closing of the inspection: offer of talks to the mayor of the Isar valley

Created: 01/11/2023, 11:00 am

By: Christof Schnürer

Institution in Mittenwald: But the police inspection will not exist for a long time.

© Josef Hornsteiner

In the course of the second half of 2023, the Mittenwald police inspection should finally be history.

A cry of indignation cannot be heard in the Upper Isar Valley.

But the three heads of town hall see an urgent need to speak.

Upper Isar Valley

- The police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South chose the timing for the bad news well - after the G7 summit and shortly before Christmas, it dropped the bomb in the Isar Valley and made the closure of the Mittenwald Police Inspectorate public in the second half of 2023.

The mayor of Mittenwald, Enrico Corongiu (SPD), claims to have found out on December 15, 2022.

"I come from a blue light organization, I know these little games," explains the trained paramedic.

The Karwendel region was sacrificed on the drawing board of politics.

Corongiu does not want to put up with the impending dissolution and sees a need for discussion.

First, he would like to speak to his colleagues in Krün and Wallgau again.

Barely a month after the pre-Christmas revelation, no outcry of horror has so far been heard in the upper Isar valley with its 11,000 inhabitants.

"A rogue, who thinks evil," says Krün's town hall chief Thomas Schwarzenberger (CSU).

Of course he's joking when he suspects that one or the other is quite happy when the police presence isn't quite as strong as it used to be.

Wallgau's mayor Bastian Eiter (electoral association) is surprised that there shouldn't even be a police station manned during the day, as in Oberammergau or Kochel.

"I don't understand that." Especially since in the high season up to 30,000 people, including guests, cavort between Walchensee and Porta Claudia, adds Corongiu.

"The catchment area is definitely not small."

After all, the Isar Valley town hall trio can hope for first-hand information.

Christian Langenmair, head of the PI Garmisch-Partenkirchen, into which the Mittenwald officials are to be integrated, already signaled last year that he would exchange information with the mayors concerned in a timely manner.

"As soon as I have important information, I will approach you," promises Langenmair to the daily newspaper.

"But we're at the very beginning, we don't want to rush anything."