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Friday, January 1, 2021
The police dissolve the New Years holidays
Man loses hand to illegal firecrackers
New Year’s Eve is relatively quiet in Germany compared to previous years. However, firefighters, police and emergency medics have to carry out numerous missions during the night. An overview:
In Essen are the emergency services on New Years Eve of a group of young people with fireworks thrown to state. The about 30 youths set garbage cans on fire for the first time, a police spokesman said. When the fire brigade approached, the firemen were massively bombarded with firecrackers. Police officers who were called in as reinforcements were also set off with fireworks. Officers eventually arrested a 16-year-old boy. None of the emergency services was injured.
A 63-year-old man has one in Brandenburg Hand lost. The man had handled an illegal firecracker, a police spokeswoman said. The hand was infected, which was later cut off. The man arrived at the hospital. The sale of pyrotechnics was also not allowed in Brandenburg, and the state government urgently advised against setting off fireworks. Potsdam and Cottbus had banned firecrackers on public roads, roads and squares for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve.
(Photo: Picture Alliance / dpa)
A driver arrives on New Years Eve Düsseldorf entered the Kö-Graben. He saved himself through the sunroof of his car and waited there for help, as announced by a fire department spokesman. According to a dpa reporter at the scene, the car had previously crashed through the fence and into the Graben, which divides Königsallee into two sides, landed. The driver then climbed onto the roof of the car on his own and was rescued by emergency services with a rubber boat. With the help of a crane, the vehicle could be pulled out of the water and brought to the bank.
Meetings on the street despite exit restrictions and celebrations with many households: In the Oberpfalz the police have several New Years parties on New Years Eve dissolved. At midnight, there were around 30 deployments for possible violations of protection measures against infections, according to the police. One had paid attention to the celebrations for disturbance of the peace complaints and had dissolved them. Even the throwing of a pistol brought officers to a party. Violations of contact restrictions and inattention of exit restrictions were reported. After 9pm, people in Bavaria can only leave the house for “good reasons”.
Despite Corona’s restrictions, they had looked forward to a New Years Eve together; In the end, the evening meeting turned into a Forest to Hagen ended up by the police. “We were reported to a larger group of people in a forest at night,” a police spokeswoman said at night. Later, the officers saw two people in a tent; two more had fled into the forest. In North Rhine-Westphalia, only five people from a maximum of two households can stay together in public spaces. “That was probably not the case in this case,” he said.
