According to the police, five hundred people threw fireworks at each other at the Neptunus Fountain. When the police dispersed the people and checked for fireworks, about two hundred people at the nearby Rathauspassagen threw fireworks at the officers.
In the southern district of Neukölln, people threw Molotov cocktails at emergency workers. Police seized eleven Molotov cocktails and arrested nine people.
Protest against Gaza
Earlier in the evening there was a protest in that neighborhood against the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Initially there were two hundred people present, but eventually about 2000 people showed up. It is not clear whether the Molotov cocktails were thrown at that protest.
About 4,500 police officers have been deployed in Berlin for this New Year’s Eve.
2024-01-01 00:03:32
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