Overview
- Police made roughly 400 short-term arrests tied to dangerous fireworks use, placed 14 suspects in preventive custody, and said they sought seven arrest warrants.
- Twenty-one officers were lightly injured, largely from blast trauma, as rockets and firecrackers were repeatedly fired at police and rescuers in hotspots including Neukölln, Kreuzberg, Schöneberg and Wedding.
- Authorities reported seizing about 220,000 pyrotechnic items in Berlin, including restricted F4 devices and kugelbomben, after raids that also uncovered roughly 14 kilograms of explosive material, weapons and five‑figure cash, plus sales from a car‑share vehicle.
- Hospitals treated severe injuries: Berlin’s trauma center logged 25 serious hand cases with amputations, including eight children, while separate incidents left two 18‑year‑olds dead in Bielefeld and a 14‑year‑old without a hand near Rostock; a 16‑year‑old in Leipzig was badly hurt by an illegal device.
- Firefighters handled 723 post‑midnight responses, including apartment and balcony fires, as police reported the Alexanderplatz and other pyrotechnics ban zones remained notably calm.