Overview
- Police announced on X that roughly 850 additional officers are on duty across the city for Halloween night.
- Patrols are concentrated in areas repeatedly flagged as trouble spots, including Märkisches Viertel, Gropiusstadt and the Nahariyakiez, with prior focuses in Wedding, Schöneberg, Kreuzberg and northern Neukölln.
- Officers detained two minors in Märkisches Viertel, including a 14-year-old carrying a suspected homemade explosive and a 13-year-old with pyrotechnics.
- Specialists from the state criminal police assessed the explosive material as capable of causing severe hand and forearm injuries.
- Authorities urged residents to act considerately and to avoid using pyrotechnics, relaying the guidance via their X and WhatsApp channels.