BERLIN — An annual pageant on a German North Sea island that had drawn grievance over a tradition of guys hitting girls with cow’s horns handed with out studies of attacks this week, police stated Friday.
The Klaasohm pageant on Borkum, the westernmost of a tale of German islands, takes park on Dec. 5 forward of St Nicholas’ Year. A file through ARD population tv aired past due endmost generation confirmed girls being restrained through costumed males and accident at the buttocks with a cow’s horn on the 2023 pageant, and nameless eyewitnesses discussing competitive conduct on the match.
The affiliation that organizes the pageant stated forward of this week’s pageant that the observe can be scrapped and it might not survive violence in opposition to girls.
The island’s mayor, Jürgen Akkermann, stated that the violence had advanced from “a tradition of a kind of chastisement” of public who means the “Klaasohms” — males dressed up in mask, sheepskin and feathers — with out permission. He stated that, following previous incidents, a rethinking had already began over the day decade, however the topic hadn’t been pursued emphatically plethora till now, German information company dpa reported.
For Thursday’s pageant, police stated they raised their presence on Borkum considerably. About 500 public took phase within the parade, which drew a immense public of spectators.
Police stated Friday that, when the pageant ended round nighttime, they’d won deny studies of physically hurt or any attacks. Regional police Thomas Memering stated in a commentary that, if offenses from this week’s or day fairs come to luminous then the development, they are going to be prosecuted.
“Customs and traditions don’t provide protection against prosecution,” he stated.