Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Stop the Neumarkt-Zoff
Cologne - On Ash Wednesday it's all over - except for the Zoff to the People session on the Neumarkt. With black Pappnase the carnival had protested against the evacuating - now also reports of Cologne's Old Mayor Norbert Burger to speak. He wants to give the arbitrator Carnival ...
"I am hopeful that there will be a solution. As of Wednesday carnival is over. The need to dislocate all just a bit, "says Burger. The concept of an affordable "people's meeting" was created under his tenure 25 years ago, but refuses to present the red-green majority in the Council with the meeting as usual to continue. Burger would now like to break the deadlock.
The Festival Committee presented as a sign of protest on Monday Pappnase-Zochwagen of New Market, applied for a belated special use permit. On Wednesday, city manager sit down and Guido Kahlen, the Party again at a table. FK-boss Mark Ritterbach frustrated: "We have already talked for weeks with the administration. Since nothing came of rum. "
OB Fritz Schramma again called upon to unite: "But we do not need a smaller tent. We are not nomads. "Cologne SPD party chief Jochen Ott did not take the protest seriously wagon:" The car is a carnival joke. This is all very hochgekocht. Very few know the background. "Since that Alt-OB burgers a lot to do ...