Overview
- Police traced a VW transporter from Oranienburg-Süd into Berlin and stopped it near the Saatwinkler Damm exit around 3 a.m.
- Officers seized more than 70 packages containing roughly 1.3 tonnes of illegal pyrotechnics from the vehicle.
- The 27-year-old driver was detained for identification and released, and the transporter was found to have no valid insurance.
- A second vehicle involved in the loading, a BMW, escaped the scene and its driver remains at large.
- Investigations are ongoing under Berlin authorities after Brandenburg police initiated the response based on bystander tips.