Overview
- Organizers said the GdP Berlin petition for a nationwide ban has surpassed three million signatures, with a separate Deutsche Umwelthilfe drive nearing one million to be delivered to Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Monday.
- Berlin logged 1,830 fire‑department deployments between 19:00 and 06:00, including 643 fires and 971 ambulance runs, while 35 police officers were injured, 22 by pyrotechnics, and the fire service reported 11 attacks or obstructions and vowed legal action.
- Authorities confirmed two deaths in Bielefeld linked to self‑made explosives and numerous serious injuries nationwide tied to New Year pyrotechnics.
- Police probes continue into violent or dangerous incidents, including three injuries from an explosion within a crowd in Neuburg/Bruck of unclear origin and a Munich case where two men allegedly launched a rocket at a group before being detained and released as witnesses are sought.
- Post‑celebration cleanups varied, with Berlin’s city service collecting 513 cubic meters of waste—less than prior years—and Dresden expecting about 60 tonnes, as local officials and workers voice support for bans or organized displays and debate references the Netherlands’ unrest after stricter rules.