rows burning carsbalconies burning private housesattacked by police teams, ambulance and fire trucks young men with blank guns took refuge behind the barricades. Social networks filled them early days of 2023 inside Germany with violence images registered Berlin and during other cities in the country new year celebrations. not the first time New Year’s Eve That’s how it ends, but emergency services and politicians agree that the level of aggression has reached an unprecedented and unacceptable level.
Statistics show stage lights violence in medium and large cities. Police and fire crews in the capital Berlin, 4,000 interventions during the night. Berlin fire brigade documented 38 fireworks attacks anyone blank pistols what are they leaving 15 workers injured. The capital’s firefighters even posted a video on their social networks showing how one of their trucks was forced to back up in front of a barricade in the Neukölln district, set by about 50 people who attacked the unit with rockets, fireworks and blanks. As one of the firefighters informs the police, he gives the order “Come back” in surprise. There was more than one in Berlin alone face arrest
These violent incidents also occurred in many cities of the state. North Rhine-Westphalia, most populous in the country. Inside bonnYoung people burned the containers and then attacked the firefighters who came to put out the flames with firecrackers and firecrackers. Inside Essen Y Bohum, police report that they have become the target of attacks as they try to separate groups of people attacking each other with fireworks. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Rhine reported 250 arrests on New Year’s Eve.
Like a “civil war”
mayor of the Neukölln district of Berlin, sea walkhe avoided hot packs and speaks explicitly of “situations like one”. civil war”. “In some cases, emergency equipment They were ambushed and attacked. This is a guilty attitude”, the local Social Democrat politician said in an interview with the daily newspaper Welt Die. For this reason, Hikel is subject to the general prohibition of sale. fireworks Y FireworksIt is very easy to acquire in Germany and is used massively every year December 31. Police and fire brigades joined the proposal.
The main opposition party is the conservative union. CDU-CSUand liberals PDF, part of the tripartite government led by the Chancellor Olaf Schölzhowever, they oppose a ban they interpret as an attack. citizen’s freedom to celebrate. Conservatives and liberals are betting on toughening the penal code for such attacks on State representatives.
extreme right Alternative for Germany (AfD) uses the opportunity to bring charges against itself. immigrants and German citizens with a migrant background, whom he held responsible for the events. An AfD tweet reads: “Entry ban instead of fireworks ban”. There has also been a debate in Germany linking immigration to events recorded at the end of last year, although precise statistics are not available.
Scholz’s Message
The debate has reached its climax german politics Federal Chancellor Olal Scholz, a Social Democrat, strongly condemned the violence and ordered better protection for emergency and police teams. Minister of the Interior, also a Social Democrat Nancy Faeser, He speaks of “stupidation that requires a consistent response”. Christian Democrats of the CDU, video cameras in all fire trucksambulances and police to document future attacks.
A law passed in 2017, 5 years in prison for attacking police officers, firefighters and sanitation workers. When asked about the official statistics at the federal government’s first press conference in 2023, a spokesperson for the Home Office confirmed multiple pieces of information. 88,000 attacks on police officers in 2021. Of the identified attackers, 84% were men and 70% were German citizens.