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Any revelations? ## Evaluation Some of the claims are false, such as the alleged lack of help official emergency services or information about the amount of aid funds. There are also many inaccuracies, misleading statements and statements for which no evidence is listed or the documents are misinterpreted became. ## Facts The reference to a flood in the 1950s is initially misleading in England, the Lynmouth disaster. There has always been speculation that... Weather experiments there could have triggered flooding. This However, the connection is scientifically controversial. There is no evidence at all for the implied connection between Weather manipulation and the recent flood disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia on the general reference to so-called chemtrails. Followers of this conspiracy myth believe that about the contrails of Chemicals are distributed on aircraft. There is no evidence for this. The situation is similar with the assumption that the catastrophe could have been “planned”. have been. The document cited is a publicly available one Informing the Bundestag by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 2013 about various disaster scenarios. At the Federal Office for Civil Protection and disaster relief, there are several such risk analyses, but none evidence of state “planning” for disasters. However, it is true that there were various warnings before the disaster. So For example, the European flood warning system EFAS warned in advance of severe floods Floods. The German Weather Service (DWD) issued a warning “In some places up to 200 l/sqm, partly thundery heavy rain”. That “all "The state authorities failed in a catastrophic manner" is therefore inaccurate: The EFAS is part of an EU program, the DWD is a German authority. After the catastrophe, further processes were publicly criticized Disaster prevention. One accusation is that authorities on site, i.e Example of affected municipalities that did not take warnings seriously enough and so many people were not warned in time. In the meantime Parliamentary committees of inquiry are looking into the processes. The claim in the video about investigations into negligence is inaccurate Killing and bodily harm “against authorities”. The Koblenz public prosecutor's office had announced on August 6th that investigations were being carried out “due to suspicion of negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm through omission» to have recorded. According to the information, it is initially only about one Initial suspicion against the district administrator of the Ahrweiler district and another Member of the crisis team there, i.e. two officials. Several authorities are not yet in the investigators' sights. As has now become known, the District Administrator will be retired at the end of October. The claim that official help in the disaster area has been ongoing for days failed to materialize is wrong, as the German Press Agency already stated in one Fact check has shown. That 700 firefighters supposedly «for a week There is no evidence to prove that they “did not receive an operational order”. The number goes back to an anonymous blog post. It says it's about Firefighters from northern Germany acted. The number 700 also appears in a press release from the Ministry of the Interior Schleswig-Holstein. Accordingly, 700 emergency services had left Federal state on July 21st on the way to the affected areas in Rhineland- Palatinate made. According to another press release, the first responders were out Schleswig-Holstein, including divers, were already in action there on July 19th. The video also states that the federal government is forgoing European ones Support. That will be German spending on development aid in others parts of the world. Here too, however, different things occur mixed up and therefore distorted. It is true that Germany does not have any Help via the EU Emergency Response Coordination Center (ERCC). has accepted. If necessary, this coordinates the deployment of auxiliary staff various EU member states as well as the distribution of equipment and Material. There are also other European offers in the event of disasters. The EU states can obtain funds for reconstruction through the European Union Apply for solidarity fund. According to the federal government, Germany can take advantage of this offer. However, it is currently still open when the money can be made available. According to the EU Commission A large part of the money from this fund for 2021 is already in in connection with other natural disasters. You check other financing options. In any case, the claim in the video on Facebook about the flood victims is false in Germany “400 million euros would be fobbed off”. This number refers only relies on emergency aid from the federal government and clings to an equally high one Amount from the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. In mid-August, the federal cabinet also decided on an aid fund of 30 Billion euros, which should ensure reconstruction over the years. Few Days after the video was published, the fund was also rejected by the Bundestag and Federal Council decided. The claim in the video that it is made by humans is also misleading Activity caused global warming media as the only cause of the catastrophe is depicted. Experts were there after the flood often cautious, individual extreme weather situations such as those recently in West Germany to establish a causal connection with climate change. That events like extreme rainfall and, conversely, long dry periods as a result However, scientifically it is true that man-made global warming occurs more frequently as secured. (As of October 12, 2021) ## Links BBC report on Lynmouth disaster (25/1/2008) (archived) Assessment at “WeatherOnline” (archived) dpa fact check on alleged “chemtrails” (July 1, 2021) Bundestag printed matter 17/12051 with risk analyzes (January 3, 2013) (archived) Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance on risk analyses (archived) Report from “Politico” on flood warnings (July 15, 2021) (archived) Warning from the German Weather Service (July 12, 2021, archived) Information about the European flood warning system EFAS (archived) Information about the DWD (archived) ZDF report on problems with warnings (July 16, 2021) (archived) “Süddeutsche Zeitung” about committees of inquiry (October 8, 2021) (archived) Press release from the Koblenz public prosecutor's office (August 6, 2021) (archived) SWR report on District Administrator of Ahrweiler (October 8, 2021) (archived) dpa fact check about the alleged lack of official help (July 23, 2021) Press release Ministry of the Interior Schleswig-Holstein (August 2, 2021) (archived) Further press release (July 19, 2021) (archived) EU Center for the Coordination of Emergency Responses ERCC (archived) Federal government on aid from EU funds (archived on August 13, 2021) “Zeit online” about financing problems with the EU fund (September 14, 2021) (archived) Federal government on emergency aid (July 30, 2021) (archived) “Spiegel” about 30 billion aid fund (August 18, 2021) (archived) “SWR Aktuell” on the resolution of the Federal Council and Bundestag (September 10, 2021) (archived) Climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf in the “Tagesthemen” interview (July 15, 2021, archived) (archived video) Video on Facebook (archived; archived video) Contact the dpa fact check team: faktencheck@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
Flood caused by weather manipulation official help was not available for days or was withheld Germany renounced EU support