Overview
- Berlin deployed roughly 850 officers to known hotspots as part of a nationwide preventive operation.
- Two minors were stopped in Berlin with pyrotechnics, and LKA specialists secured a suspected homemade explosive assessed as capable of causing severe injuries.
- Firefighters extinguished several car fires in Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel, with investigators reviewing any link to Halloween activity.
- Duisburg monitored hotspots with video observation and a drone; recordings are reviewed by trained staff, privacy zones are pixelated, and footage is deleted after 14 days unless needed for prosecution.
- Police reported mostly isolated disturbances in several cities, with Hamburg using drones and Essen describing the evening as largely peaceful with some pyrotechnics seized.