Marco Out, the mayor of Assen, broke his arm through an ‘unhappy stumbling party’. You can read that on his Facebook page.
Out, which is currently on vacation, is in the hospital in Strasbourg in France.
“Last night, when I walked to the tram in Strasbourg from my hotel to eat something in the city, I broke my right arm in two places in an unfortunate stumbling party.”
The mayor of Assen is an avid cyclist, and that was also the plan this holiday: “Earlier that day I cycled here on my holiday bike from Basel. On Saturday by train to Basel and then sagging the Rijn to relax in a week to relax one Nice basis for the cycling season. But that went differently.
“Then you suddenly lie on the street. I immediately felt that it wasn’t right. Long story short: no misunderstanding in the hospital.” Out now has his arm in a sling, healing the arm goes six to eight weeks. At that time he continues with his mayor’s work, confirmed a spokesperson for the municipality of Assen: “Being a mayor is mainly with your head.”
It is not the first time that the Asser mayor is in the Kreuks. In 2016 he was partly out of the running for a while because he had broken his hip in a fall by bike. Then three screws were needed to keep the break together.
It doesn’t seem to be that serious now, with an arm in the Mitella the mayor will return to the Netherlands tomorrow.