US EditionFive killed and 400 arrests as New Year chaos erupts in Germany
Over 4,300 police and 1,600 firefighters responded to New Year’s Eve violence involving illegal fireworks, causing severe injuries and five deaths nationwide, authorities reported.
- By the early hours of January 1, Berlin police reported more than 400 arrests amid New Year violence, deploying 4,300 police and 1,600 firefighters while five men died nationwide from fireworks.
- Legal allowance for private pyrotechnics and illegal caches fueled disorder, with police seizing over 220,000 fireworks in Berlin, Kopelke said, 'The anonymity and the impression that one would not be held accountable for crimes on New Year's Eve tempt people to commit offenses.'
- Medical teams said by January 1, 37 police officers were injured, including one severe leg wound from a Kugelbombe requiring surgery, while firefighters also suffered blast traumas.
- Berlin prosecutors opened 670 criminal proceedings mainly for pyrotechnics misuse, assaults, and arson, while local accident and emergency units and officials urged stricter fireworks regulation amid trauma in communities affected by damaged infrastructure.
- Beyond central Berlin, a Schoneberg blast displaced residents from 36 flats and injured five, a Tegel ball bomb hurt eight including a seven-year-old boy, while attacks occurred in Bonn, Bremen, and Leipzig.
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Eight children in Berlin lose their fingers. There are also serious injuries caused by Böller in Rostock and Leipzig. For the time being, the last New Year's Eve in the Netherlands runs out of hand with rockets.
In some cities on New Year's Eve there were police missions for the abuse of bulls and missiles. In Berlin, more than 400 people were arrested for a short time. In Bielefeld, two 18-year-olds died from pyrotechnics.
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