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Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said she fears a repeat of New Year rioting and attacks on emergency services in Berlin and other cities. BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Berlin said Monday that New Year’s Eve celebrations in the German capital were more peaceful compared to last year despite the temporary detention of 390 people and 54 police officers being injured. A night of new year rioting and attacks on emergency services in Berlin and other cities has shocked Germans and prompted calls for a ban on fireworks and firecrackers. Hundreds of people have been seen buying fireworks in Germany and the Netherlands ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations, despite pleas from authorities to tone down the use of the festive Berlin’s recent New Year’s Eve riots were characterised by unprecedented aggressiveness on the part of the rioters and by their numerous deliberate and coordinated attempts to target emergency service workers, including by luring them into ambushes. Germany’s biggest police union called Tuesday for concerted action to prevent a repeat of the violent excesses seen in Berlin and other cities during the New Year’s celebrations, in which Attacks on police and emergency services during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in ethnically diverse urban areas across Germany have given rise to a new immigration debate. Berlin police said on Monday that they detained around 390 people overnight on New Year's Eve in the German capital and have so far tallied just over 700 potential criminal investigations. A night of new year rioting and attacks on emergency services in Berlin and other cities has shocked Germans and prompted calls for a ban on fireworks and firecrackers. Youth riots that erupted in Berlin on New Year's Eve have rekindled a debate over immigration just as Germany is preparing reforms to lure a new wave of skilled foreign workers to Europe's The local newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten on its website on 3 January 2016 reported that in the city centre of Stuttgart in the Silvesternacht (New Year's Eve) two 18-year-old women had been sexually assaulted by a group of around fifteen men about 30–40 years of age, who had the appearance of black-haired "southern people" with "Arab" looks. New Year’s Eve, which was marked by riots and attacks on emergency services in Berlin and other parts of Germany, has started a discussion about the ban on pyrotechnics, writes the BBC. In the German capital alone, 41 police officers have been injured, and there have been dozens of attacks on firefighters. A burned-out tour bus stands in front of a damaged apartment building in the Neukölln district of Berlin, Germany, on 3 January 2023 after riots on New Year's Eve. (Photo by Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images) Germany vowed to crack down on people responsible for violence around the weekend’s New Year celebrations, in which police, paramedics and firefighters were targeted with fireworks and dozens 01/02/2023 January 2, 2023. Attacks on the police and emergency service staff marred New Year's celebrations in Germany's biggest cities, prompting calls for harsher penalties and more video Dozens of New Year attacks on Berlin firefighters 01/01/2023 January 1, 2023. Firefighters in the German capital, Berlin, have reported multiple attacks while trying to do their job. New Year's celebrations in Germany was marred by attacks against firefighters, the police and other emergency service staff. Berlin’s fire department reporte Despite the violence and police injuries, 2023 was markedly less chaotic compared to New Year's Eve 2022. Riots across Germany saw cars set on fire and 41 emergency responders, including police New Year's Eve violence and attacks on emergency services in Berlin have prompted calls for a national ban on fireworks, with viral online videos accusing "migrant gangs" of being behind the riots Cologne's mayor calls crisis talks with police after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and mugging by men on New Year's Eve. Germany's New Year shock - by Damien McGuinness, BBC News Berlin.
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