{"id":56726,"date":"2026-04-07T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56726\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:18:11","slug":"man-killed-by-falling-flowerpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56726\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed by falling flowerpot\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imago833346856-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden wp-image-179803\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imago833346856-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179803\"  \/>IMAGO \/\u00a0Olaf Schuelke<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, April 7<\/p>\n<p>A man was killed yesterday by a falling flowerpot in Gesundbrunnen, Mitte. Initial police investigations have ruled it a tragic accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Vinetaplatz, not far from Mauerpark. While the background of the accident remains unclear,\u00a0B.Z. reported that strong winds might have torn the flowerpot out of its anchoring on a nearby balcony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police and fire brigade were alerted at around 3:15 pm to an accident, and a rescue helicopter was also used. They tried to help the man, but he had died on the spot. \u201cThe person had a very serious head injury,\u201d said a spokesman for the Berlin fire brigade.<\/p>\n<p>The German Weather Service (DWD) had predicted wind gusts for Berlin and Brandenburg on Monday. The windy weather had caused fatalities in Schleswig-Holstein, where three people died on Easter Sunday while hunting Easter eggs when a tree fell during strong gusts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAGO \/\u00a0Olaf Schuelke Tuesday, April 7 A man was killed yesterday by a falling flowerpot in Gesundbrunnen, Mitte.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,31411,31412,190,38,31413],"class_list":["post-56726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-fatality","tag-flowerpot","tag-germany","tag-news","tag-winds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116363860793030421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}