Overview

• About 20 to 30 predominantly male tourists disrupted fellow passengers with loud music and unauthorized smoking aboard a Lake Starnberg pleasure boat.
• Ship crew and the captain tried to enforce onboard smoking and noise bans but the group refused to comply or disembark voluntarily.
• Police from the Starnberger Inspektion boarded the vessel at Possenhofen dock and accompanied the tourists to the final stop in Starnberg to restore order.
• The group disembarked peacefully in Starnberg without further incident following the police escort.
• Authorities have opened an Ordnungswidrigkeitsverfahren under the Schifffahrtsordnung and are reviewing reports of potential property damage on board.