Overview
- Berlin police reported hundreds of short-term detentions for dangerous fireworks misuse, issued 14 preventive custody orders, and sought seven arrest warrants.
- About 220,000 pyrotechnic items were confiscated in Berlin, many in the F4 category restricted to professionals, following extensive pre‑event searches.
- Twenty-one Berlin officers were injured by rocket and firecracker attacks as roughly 4,300 police and 1,600 firefighters worked the night.
- The Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin treated 25 severe hand‑injury cases, including eight children, with partial or complete amputations.
- Two 18‑year‑olds in Bielefeld died in separate blasts involving self‑made pyrotechnics, and a Bochum apartment explosion is under investigation for suspected illegal fireworks production with two adults in custody; ban zones like Alexanderplatz stayed calm.