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Friday, January 1, 2021
Fatal accident in Alsace
Firecracker tears off man’s head
As in Germany, the sale of fireworks was banned before New Year’s Eve in Alsace, France. Two young men don’t let that stop them. A rigged fireworks is your downfall.
In Alsace, France, a 25-year-old man died on New Year’s Eve while lighting a firework. The manipulated fireworks mortar “tore off the head” of the young man in the municipality of Boofzheim, announced the Bas-Rhin prefecture, near the border with Germany. A 24-year-old man was injured in the face and is in hospital.
The two men were on the street with the fireworks mortar, police announced. The Bas-Rhin prefecture banned the sale and purchase of fireworks for the entire month of December.
In general, New Year’s Eve was relatively quiet in Germany and Europe compared to previous years. In many countries, the sale of pyrotechnics was not allowed and sometimes it could not be lit. However, there were individual serious accidents with fireworks often illegal or manipulated. In Brandenburg, for example, a 63-year-old man lost a hand. The man had handled an illegal firecracker, a police spokeswoman said. The hand became infected and then cut. The man arrived at the hospital.
A supermarket caught fire in Berlin. The approximately 800-square-meter area of the building in the Buckow district caught fire and the roof collapsed, a fire department spokesman said. Apparently, the fireworks were stored in part of the market, which exploded due to the fire and passed through the area.
