The devastating pictures of the “New Year’s Eve civil war” in Berlin spread around the world: burning barricades, attacked police officers, fire extinguishers thrown at ambulances. Now it is official which group the biggest hooligans were: most of the suspects are young Syrians and Afghans.
Police cars fired at by rioters with flare guns, firecracker attacks on paramedics, burning barricades: Berlin was in a state of emergency on New Year’s Eve, witnesses spoke of “civil war”. And what did Berlin’s Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer (48), who is also the top candidate of the party “Die Linken”, demand: a nationwide ban on the sale of firecrackers.
The Berliners have had enough, especially since the official figures about the hooligans are on the table: 145 rioters were temporarily arrested. Their nationalities: 45 Germans, including a considerable number with a migration background. Plus 27 Afghans and 21 Syrians. In total, 18 different nationalities were registered by the authorities in the federal capital. The terror night was imported to Germany.
Responses from politicians in particular are now infuriating the people of Berlin who are affected. Dieter Janacek (46), the economic spokesman of the Green Party, actually felt obliged to state: “It is quite disgusting how certain circles are now trying to turn an already under-complex firecracker ban debate into a completely misguided migration debate”. And then the Green also compares the excesses of violence on New Year’s Eve with “alcohol-fuelled violence at carnival parades”.
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