New Year's Eve in Berlin: Dead and hundreds of injured by dangerous firecrackers!

A total of 363 people were injured by fireworks in Berlin on New Year's Eve 2024/2025, such as rbb24 reported. Of these, 52 people had to be treated in a hospital. The injuries varied from light, superficial burns to severe and life -threatening injuries. It is worrying that a child was brought in a critical state due to the explosion of a ball bomb in Tegel. The child is one of those affected who were seriously injured by the use of illegal fireworks. Another case concerns a person who suffered the hardest facial burns through an exploding rocket.

At the Charité in Berlin, 49 people were treated with fireworks -related injuries, while 42 injuries were registered in the accident hospital, many of them as a result of ball bombs. Some sufferers suffered severe hearing damage or the permanent loss of vision or hearing. The health security of the medical staff was also at risk: 23 incidents of physical or verbal attacks on the staff were reported. The emergency services and hospitals also had to provide everyday emergencies such as strokes and heart attacks.

illegal fireworks and their consequences

The New Year's Eve was characterized by serious damage caused by self-made explosives and "ball bombs", so Tagesschau . In Berlin-Schöneberg there was a violent detonation at 1:30 a.m., which damaged numerous windows and house facades and demanded five injuries. A total of 36 apartments in Berlin became temporarily uninhabitable, and five people died in Germany as a result of the explosion of illegal or not free -selling firecrackers.

The police and rescue workers found an increase in illegal fireworks in German cities, especially in Berlin. In response to this, arrest warrants were issued against two young men: a 20-year-old is sought because of dangerous intervention in road traffic and violation of the explosive law, while a 17-year-old is also charged due to dangerous bodily harm and violations of the explosive law.

The police union calls for stricter border controls to combat illegal import of explosive bodies, a claim that is also supported by a CDU politician. The governing mayor of Berlin has requested a tightening of weapons law, but rejects an absolute ban on firecrackers. In other federal states such as Brandenburg, Hamburg and Saxony, there were also deaths through explosions of illegal firecrackers.