Overview
- Berlin’s first official balance reported 1,830 emergency deployments between 19:00 and 06:00, including 643 fires and 971 ambulance runs, with 35 police officers injured.
- Authorities confirmed severe casualties linked to pyrotechnics, including a 17-year-old’s death in Sachsen-Anhalt and cases requiring amputations and treatment for serious burns to children.
- State security opened an investigation in Bremen’s Tenever after a group attacked firefighters and impeded a kindergarten blaze response by throwing fireworks and hindering operations.
- Police launched additional probes into violent or dangerous incidents, including a firework explosion injuring three people in Neuburg-Bruck, assaults on officers during a Munich bar arrest, and a suspected targeted battery fired at officers in Sulingen.
- A GdP Berlin petition for a nationwide ban surpassed three million signatures, a Deutsche Umwelthilfe effort neared one million ahead of a planned handover to the interior minister, and the federal stance remains against a general ban.