In the July 2021 flood, twelve residents of a home for people with disabilities died in Sinzig, in the Ahr valley. The district administrator of Ahrweiler, Jürgen Pföhler, was accused of raising the alarm far too late and ordering only a partial evacuation. He rejected the responsibility. The technical operations command, he said, had been responsible for alerting the population. Prosecutors opened an investigation on August 6, 2021. In April 2024, the prosecutors in Koblenz announced that he would not be charged.