2024-05-26 20:57:30
4 useless on Mallorca
Ikke Hüftgold criticizes: “As if nothing had occurred”
25.05.2024 – 16:07Studying time: 2 min.
The get together temper at Ballermann was overshadowed by the deadly collapse of a restaurant. Regardless of the tragedy, enterprise continued on the vacation island.
On Thursday night, an accident shattered the exuberant temper on the Spanish vacation island of Mallorca: The constructing of the “Medusa Seashore Membership” collapsed at round 8.30 p.m. and buried quite a few visitors beneath rubble. 4 folks died and 14 folks needed to be taken to hospital resulting from their accidents.
The tragedy has shocked Spain. The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, declared a three-day interval of mourning after the collapse. Germany can also be shocked. Two of the useless have been German ladies. Playa de Palma, the place the membership is situated, could be very in style with German vacationers.
“All the things continued as regular”
Regardless of the accident, enterprise on the so-called Ballermann apparently needed to proceed. Social gathering singer Ikke Hüftgold tells t-online: “It is actually unhappy, every part went on as regular.” The 47-year-old has been working within the get together scene for 15 years now.
He realized from his colleagues the day after the collapse that the performances wouldn’t be cancelled: “Regardless of ethical considerations, the administration of the Bierkönig yesterday requested our artists to go on stage instantly after the accident at 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. They adopted the directions out of worry of being thrown out.” The Bierkönig is without doubt one of the cult bars on Ballermann, and is slightly below 20 minutes’ stroll from the “Medusa Seashore Membership”.
Nevertheless it wasn’t simply the Bierkönig that continued celebrating: “All the opposite bars additionally acted as if nothing had occurred,” says Ikke Hüftgold, whose actual title is Matthias Distel. Nonetheless, the musician stresses that everybody naturally offers with such excessive conditions in a different way.