Hexenkessel accident in Eppingen: The silence of fools continues – Baden-Wuerttemberg

By Carola Fuchs 30. July 2018 – 14:09

Nearly a year and a half after the terrible accident at Fasnet in Eppingen, the prosecution accuses a 32-year-old of negligent badault. He would have held an 18 year old boy over a cauldron with boiling water. The woman suffered severe burns. The man is silent.

Heilbronn – This has not been an easy investigation for the Epping police. The victim, who had been scalded at the carnival parade in Eppingen (Heilbronn district) in a kettle full of bubbling water, was not able to provide information, according to the prosecution. . And the group of porters, who had the cauldron on a cart, is also wrapped up in silence. Against 19 accused, the Kraichtaler "Bohbrigga Hexenbroda" was determined, 18 procedures for lack of badistance, the parquet of Heilbronner has again fixed: A clear identification of other Tatbeeteiligter had been impossible.

However, a 32-year-old man who allegedly held the 18-year-old young man above the kettle has now accused the investigators of negligent badault. He lost the young woman; As a result, she had come with legs in boiling water. The young man of 18 years suffered according to the second and third degree scalding prosecutor. The district court still has to allow the indictment, so the case would be negotiated in Heilbronn. The young woman has already applied to be admitted as a co-complainant. She had been hospitalized for more than a month. A quarter of the year after the important night shift, she was still sick. The 32-year-old man himself has not commented on the allegations. Negligent bodily injury can be punished up to three years in prison.

"Only partial information was provided"

The accident had also hit high waves because no one had heard of carriers. On the organizers of Epping, the Kraichgauperlen with the Kraichgauhexen, a Shitstorm had burst onto the Internet: they had posted pictures of the movement, first without going into the incident. The storm rage is indeed repressed, it did not stop: The gold book on the homepage of witches Kraichgau finds indignant comments that were published only this month- this.

"Only partial information was provided", explains Bettina Jörg, spokesperson for the Heilbronn prosecutor's office. Who testified, had only stated, "that he did not notice". The clothes of the alleged perpetrator, who had also participated in the movement in the Häs, had been featured in the total of 40 witness hearings. These clothes can be badigned to the 32-year-old man, said the prosecutor's spokeswoman. In addition, the police had evaluated dozens of photos and videos of the time before and immediately after the incident. It was obviously still the same three witches in the immediate vicinity of the boiler to see. But the decisive moment itself has not been recorded in any photo.

The city of Eppingen wants to know it now

Eppingen replied. "We have revised our approval process for such events," said a spokeswoman for the city. Organizers should now answer a more comprehensive questionnaire, "we want to know exactly what is there", and security requirements have also been strengthened. It had already had an effect. For the first time there were no big horses at this year's fair, as the city now requires a test that participating horses have faced the stress caused by many spectators.