Closing time in Berlin and Hamburg: the party continued | Regional

Berlin / Hamburg – In Germany’s two largest cities, the lights went out at 11 pm on the weekend: curfew! But not everything ended later everywhere. BILD shows where the party was still going on.

In Berlin, it was still possible to celebrate in eleven restaurants after 11 at night. Background: Eleven Berlin restaurateurs who had accepted urgent requests against curfew could still serve guests after 11 pm Only alcohol was prohibited.

The same applies to Hamburg, where, however, there were no exceptions. So dead pants in the neighborhood? Not quite! The police had to move to the Reeperbahn.

BILD on the go at party venues in Berlin

► the “ASeven” It is one of the locations that can open after 11pm. Here, however, the distance rules were ignored around 1am and they danced together. Whether alcohol was served is unclear. Around 2:30 am, the party ended there too.

► Am “Club OST” Several hundred people danced together, sometimes without a mask and kissing. At 10 pm the party ended.

Apart from these two cases, the other companies adhered to the regulation. The guests left the bars and discos on time.

The curfew appears to be in force, except in the Neukölln district. There were all kinds of rapes here, especially in the Spätis and Shisha bars.

► Around 11.30 pm to Late closed by the police, in which six rapes had already been found last Tuesday. This time there was again seating outside, which is prohibited in this restaurant.

► With another Late On Hermannstrasse, the seats in front of the kiosk were only authorized on instructions. The operator had to close down, the guests present were fired. Beer-drinking guests said it was an exaggeration to act like this 10 minutes after 11 p.m., it was already 11:42 p.m.

► There was one in Warthestrasse Shisha-Bar closed from the outside. However, voices could be heard. You could enter the bar through a hallway. Police arrived around 12:30 am and found more than eleven people in the bar. No guest list was kept.

► Then at 0.40 am, in one of them Local in Schierker Strasse: the civil police forces saw through a curtain that was not completely drawn that there were several people in the shop. They played cards, apparently drank alcohol, smoked shisha. When the police called, he was frantic. People picked up their jackets and fled the store. At least three of them could be placed in a backyard. The police also obtained footage from surveillance cameras.

It is not clear if the night rapes in Neukölln have and what consequences they have. But it can be very expensive. Recently, the “Odessa Bar” in Berlin-Mitte was fined 5,000 euros because it opened after 11 pm and had “conspiratorially organized” the admission, as an employee of the BILD district office put it.

Police ended the party at Reeperbahn

From a police point of view, everything went well in the Hanseatic city on Saturday night, almost all the people obeyed the mask requirement and moved home when the curfew came. At 11pm, the shops were closed at Große Freiheit, Hans-Albers-Platz and other places, except for an outlier, as it turned out later.

At 1:20 a.m. M., A patrol car on the Reeperbahn noticed that some 30 people were standing in front of the “Club 25”, a total silence everywhere except there.

Several crew cars immediately arrived and began to search the club. A BILD police spokesman: “Some doors were closed inside, but music could be heard behind them.” There were also countless jackets in the wardrobe.

According to the police, the operator pretended that these had just been forgotten. Party guests then came out under the threat of forcing open locked doors in the basement.

“Responsible operators and around 90 visitors have to face administrative infringement procedures,” the police spokesman said. Three people came to the police station on suspicion of being illegal.

Otherwise, he remained quiet in the Hanseatic city. The result: According to police, there were around 9,000 visitors in the neighborhood at 11pm, on normal Saturday nights there are usually at least 25,000.