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Winterberg (dpa / lnw) - The mayor of the winter sports resort Winterberg in the Sauerland has tried unsuccessfully to ban day trips to the country because of the rush of visitors over the past few days.
"That would have been my wish, there was also in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the summer," said CDU politician Michael Beckmann of the "Rheinische Post".
“But I was told by the Ministry of Health that it wouldn't work.
The Corona Protection Ordinance of North Rhine-Westphalia does not provide that, ”Beckmann described.
The city has the option to block its streets.
But that doesn’t help, because traffic is jammed on the federal highways.
“In addition, even if a ban on excursions were legally possible, it would practically not be able to control it.
You would then have to stop every single car and check whether the occupants come from Winterberg, visit relatives or are day vacationers, "said Beckmann in the" RP ".
In the past few days and also on Wednesday, numerous day-trippers had come to Winterberg, among others.
Long traffic jams were a consequence.
Winterberg and Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) had called for not to do this in order to avoid large crowds in the Corona crisis.
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