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Shortly before 9 a.m. on Friday morning (August 1st), police forces discovered a deer in the so -called “Space Camp”, an area in front of the entrance to the Infield of the Wacken Open Air. The animal Apparently got lost And found no way out of the area. Together with a called hunter, the emergency services secured the deer and then released it in a nearby forest.
On the Wacken Thursday (July 31), the police said only a few incidents. According to a report by NDR, the authorities present have explained this. The officials therefore currently have knowledge of three assault.
Wacken police informed
In two cases, there were conflicts between festival guests and the security service used. In addition, a festival visitor is said to have physically attacked an employee of a sales booth. Nothing is known about the reasons for the reports reported.
Fire brigade use on the camping site
The fire brigade also had to move out on Thursday evening. Around 8:30 p.m., according to “Stern”, there was a cable fire on one of the camping areas on a vehicle. The helpers were apparently able to reach the affected vehicle quickly and prevent the flames from spreading. Nobody was injured in the fire.
Wacken Open Air is one of the largest metal festivals worldwide and, according to the organizer, is fully sold out with 85,000 guests. The fact that there is no longer any problems with such a festival size is due to the good organization and support by the emergency services on site. In addition, the sworn Wacken community also seems to have well under control-despite beer and sometimes difficult conditions through rain and mud.
The police had already praised the festival goers on the journey because they would have followed the instructions of the authorities and organizers on the whole. There were no major problems, the Schleswig-Holstein police reported on Tuesday to X.