There are 20 minutes of explosives that the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz published on Tuesday: three videos shot on the evening of July 14, 2021 in the Ahr Valley between 10:14 p.m. and 10:42 p.m. by a police helicopter from the air. They show a valley under water, houses standing in the middle of the flood waters - and they show umpteen people radioing for help with flashlights from the enclosed houses. Now the interior minister of Rhineland-Palatinate is up to his neck – resignation is not out of the question.

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