Cologne - The subway construction workers from Waidmarkt. Heroic, they kept people from dying. They say: "We want to continue working there!"
Express spoke with bulldozer Giacomo B. (43), the passers stayed. And truck drivers Stefan S. (27, name changed), who stopped a KVB bus.
They both worked for the Dillenburger Lauber contractors at the construction site on the Waidmarkt. Boss Karl-Heinz Weber is proud of his staff: "You have saved lives."
Giacomo B. and Stefan S. see the prosaic. "It was a reflex that would have all done." What the two experiences?
Giacomo B. sits minutes before the disaster on its excavators, shovel gravel loads onto a lorry. It is the truck of Stefan S. The driver stands next to the excavator. "Suddenly, slid down the road, an edge stood straight up."
The two set off running - on the sidewalk on the side of the city archives. "We thought that we need to prevent people passing on," says Stefan S., Giacomo B. reports: "On the facade of the city archives were cracks that were always greater."
During a stop Stefan KVB bus stops passers-by Giacomo on the footpath. He asked the people on the street. "Then we heard this bang." The archive is falling. But clearing up the dust "after a few minutes" on. Giacomo can not believe it: Across from him, he sees Heiko Wagner with the phone to her ear. "We have asked him coming down." If you look at the remains of their vehicles, one can only marvel at their balance sheet. The two say, "We will continue building there."
