2023-08-15 16:56:31
“I’m lucky,” assures Varol Halil, recalling the events of the previous day. On Monday August 14, a stage collapsed at Europa Park, Germany’s largest amusement park, in the middle of a show. Result: seven injured, including five artists and two visitors. Three were hospitalized. Debris was thrown up to the arrival area of the “Atlantica Super Splash” attraction. The 22-year-old was on top of these roller coasters when the accident happened. “The staff reacted immediately and pressed the emergency button to stop the attraction. About a car, it was I who was at the bottom (on the arrival area, editor’s note), he confides.
Varol Halil explains that he waited about twenty minutes in the car stuck on the rails, before the staff of Europa Park came to evacuate them by the emergency stairs. “I was a little scared”, explains the one who explains having “a little dizziness”. “It’s still impressive that a large park like this can have this kind of problem,” he says.
In the end, more fear than harm for the visitor who, barely back on solid ground, continued his tour of the park’s attractions. “They gave us a VIP pass when we got off,” he says, smiling.
“The mobile pool of the high-flying diving show cracked during a performance. Water flowed into the lake from Atlantica SuperSplash. The attraction will be back in service shortly, ”we can read on the park’s twitter account. An investigation was opened by the police to determine the circumstances of this accident. On June 19, a fire broke out at Europa Park, triggering the evacuation of 25,000 people.
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