Overview
- A six-hour police operation, which ran Saturday, checked nearly 300 people on the Isar and stopped boats for inspections and tests.
- Officers recorded 15 cases of blood-alcohol over the 0.5‰ threshold and told intoxicated groups they must leave their boats and face fines starting at about €100.
- Inspectors also found safety breaches including a five-year-old without a proper lifejacket and multiple boats carrying banned glass bottles or loudspeakers.
- Police and rescuers warned that the Isar is a wild river with submerged trees, strong currents and a dangerous Großhesselohe weir where water-roller traps force large, complex rescue operations and prevent direct entry by rescuers.
- Authorities are enforcing the 2020 Landkreis München ordinance that bans on-board alcohol and sets equipment rules while combining penalties with public education and testing of a police rescue inflatable for faster response.