New Year’s Eve riots: police officers shot with firecrackers



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In Carinthia there were some missions due to the firing of pyrotechnic articles in the local area, as well as some violations of the Covid Measures Law, the distance rules were not observed.

Fireworks in Innsbruck

The Tyrolean emergency services also report a rarely quiet New Year’s Eve, but according to the provisional balance there were three injured by fireworks and two after fires, the men suffered smoke poisoning. The Tyrolean control center recorded 43 percent fewer alarms than the previous year and the emergency services 239 times. At the end of 2019/20 there were 421 missions.

In Innsbruck, by the way, there was an official fireworks display of the city: early in the morning of New Year’s Day there were 15,000 visits on the city’s Facebook page, where the fireworks in Seegrube can be viewed retrospectively.

Peace and quiet also in Upper Austria

In Upper Austria, 700 police officers were on duty on New Year’s Eve, but there were only a few deployments for them, as New Year’s Day was called. No “major violations” were reported.

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