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Fireworks mortar rips off the head of a 25-year-old in Alsace
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On New Year’s Eve, a tragic accident occurred in the French community of Boofzheim near the German border. A fireworks mortar decapitated one man and wounded another. A 24-year-old man died in Brandenburg.
meIn Alsace, France, a 25-year-old man died on New Year’s Eve while setting off fireworks.
The fireworks mortar “tore off the head” of the young man in the municipality of Boofzheim, announced the Bas-Rhin prefecture, near the border with Germany. A 24-year-old man was injured in the face and is in hospital.
The two men were on the street with the fireworks mortar, police announced. The Bas-Rhin prefecture banned the sale and purchase of fireworks for the entire month of December.
Homemade pyrotechnics – a dead man in Brandenburg
There were also accidents in Germany. A 24-year-old man was killed in a fireworks accident in Brandenburg. According to the first findings of the police, the self-made pyrotechnics ignited shortly after midnight in Rietz-Neuendorf, near Frankfurt (Oder), as announced by a spokesman for the situation service early Friday morning. They were fireworks that could not be bought. Details of the exact course of the accident were initially unclear.
The victim is said to have been with a group on undeveloped private property. There were no more injuries, the spokesman said. A police deactivation team also made sure that the pyrotechnics had not been lit.
Corona’s requirements are largely met
Still, according to preliminary police reports, New Year’s Eve was exceptionally quiet throughout Germany. The restrictions due to the corona pandemic were largely met. The Berlin police recorded only a few violations of Corona’s requirements. There were demonstrations in Stuttgart on Thursday night, which the security forces broke up for violating the Infection Protection Act. Police were on the move across the country with massive staff to enforce the crown’s requirements.
Due to the corona pandemic, the sale of New Year’s Eve fireworks was banned across the country this year to protect hospitals from overload. Firecracker ban zones have been established in many places.
In general, the situation is “calm”, said a police spokesman in the capital early Friday morning. After midnight, there were briefly more people on the streets. In isolated cases, unauthorized fireworks were lit in firecracker ban zones. Officers also had to break up various crowds.
So far, more than 80 people have been briefly detained, among other things, for checks in the course of Corona’s measures. Early in the evening, the emergency services reported that they had filed several complaints, among other things for shooting and drinking.
The Berlin police had prepared for New Year’s Eve with a huge number of personnel. 2,900 officials, 600 of them from other federal states, were on duty in the capital. Officials were particularly interested in the government district and the Brandenburg Gate, where hundreds of thousands of people often gather to celebrate the New Year.
The Berlin fire brigade has been involved in 148 fires since midnight. In the Steglitz district, emergency services were attacked in an ambulance, the fire department wrote on Twitter. A grocery store caught fire in Berlin-Buckow and around a hundred emergency services were deployed to put out the fire.
Demonstrations in Stuttgart
In Stuttgart there were several demonstrations in the city center. Because some participants ignored the distance rules and refused to wear masks, the meetings were interrupted.
Also in cities such as Erfurt and Rostock, the police made a positive balance on New Year’s Eve. In Frankfurt, the police said their farewells at 4 am on Twitter with the hashtag #Frankfurtbleibtstabil and wished them a “good night’s sleep”.
