Today in Rhein-Main: Minister of the Environment lets allegations bounce off

Good evening,

the first fans of Frankfurt Eintracht have already made their way to London, Environment Minister Priska Hinz (Die Grünen) rejects any responsibility in connection with contaminated vegetables from a cutting company in Gernsheim and the diocese of Mainz has to save.

Sometimes drastic measures are taken for this.

The topics of the day at a glance.

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Scandal?

What a scandal?:

Environment Minister Priska Hinz (The Greens) does not want to know anything about another food scandal during her term of office.

Also not from a scandal.

After all, the occurrence of the disease was "stifled in the beginning", the "company was closed in a flash".

But one after anonther.

What exactly is Hinz accused of?

Over the Easter holidays, it became known that cucumbers contaminated with germs from a company in Gernsheim had been delivered to hospitals in Frankfurt and Offenbach.

Several people got sick.

On Wednesday, Hinz had to ask many questions in the state parliament's environmental committee.

The opposition criticizes the tightening of food controls, which Hinz initiated after an earlier incident, as insufficient.

At that time, Listeria was also detected at the Wilke company in northern Hesse.

37 cases of illness and three deaths are associated with the 2019 incident.

Everything worked out this time, Hinz justifies himself.

When the ministry was informed of the suspicion in mid-February, the regional council acted immediately.

Only the company itself and the district made mistakes.

Because the latter has not checked the company for two years - even though two annual checks are actually planned.

Nevertheless, the minister sees a need for action: companies like the one in Gernsheim should in future not only be controlled by the local veterinary offices, but according to the so-called "two-authority principle".

The regional council should also participate in this.

Your statements did not convince everyone.

"Three years after the Wilke scandal, not even the minimum number of prescribed food controls in Hesse has been reached," complained Heidemarie Scheuch-Paschkewitz (left).

Knut John (SPD) also criticized the fact that the ministry had simply accepted that the controls in some districts had not been complied with.

In some cases, the degree of fulfillment is only around 55 percent.

London, Eintracht is coming:

Have you already washed the Eintracht shirt or does it still smell like the last home...um...away win in Barcelona?

The team has to go back on Thursday.

This time in London.

And again thousands of fans are on their way.

The fact that a white wall of Eintracht supporters will greet the players in the stadium this time is considered impossible.

West Ham United want to prevent images like the ones from Barcelona at all costs.

London season ticket holders were asked not to officially offer any tickets on the market – probably for fear that, like the game in Barcelona, ​​they would mainly go to Frankfurt.

In addition, Eintracht fans who bought tickets outside the guest block should be denied access to the block.

So not everyone who travels to London will get to the stadium.

But in the city's pubs it's likely to get a bit more crowded than it already is with such an encounter.

The dress code applies again in London: everyone in white.

Save, save, save:

Announcing savings measures is no easy task.

Not even for Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz.

He chooses clear words when presenting the latest plans: "The time of the folk church, in which many also grew up emotionally, is coming to an end or has already come to an end." It doesn't help to mourn for an "apparently good golden world “.

Too few staff, too expensive real estate and falling church tax revenues - these are just three reasons that are causing concern for the diocese of Mainz.

New paths are to be taken and the 134 parish groups and parish associations that still exist are to be redesigned so that they can be combined into 46 large parishes by 2039.

The aim is to take believers and employees with us into the here and now and to strengthen teamwork.

In the diocese of Mainz, to which large parts of Hesse belong, it is assumed that the number of Catholics will decrease by around 100,000 members from the current 680,000 believers by 2030.

Mainz correspondent Markus Schug listened to the plans for the so-called pastoral path.

"The mixture of downsizing and a new beginning is not convincing in all points, but there is apparently no alternative," he writes in his commentary, but at the same time sees an opportunity for the Catholic Church.

"What is beneficial in all of this is the clear line of the diocese, which wants to overcome the widespread church tower thinking with the help of 46 new major parishes."

And the Oeder Weg is now considered a bicycle-friendly side street.

The change in traffic routing still causes problems for some drivers +++ opens the exhibition "Mythos Handwerk" in the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt +++ celebrates the champagne brand "Mumm" and looks back on an eventful history.

Stay healthy,

Marie Lisa Kehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz

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