A 17-year-old was seriously injured when using fireworks on New Year’s Eve in Leipzig and later died in hospital. Third-party debt is currently excluded, the police said on Sunday morning. In addition, several men were injured in the limbs. Riots broke out in Berlin and fireworks were thrown at the police.
In Thuringia, in eastern Germany, two men were seriously injured by explosions on New Year’s Eve. In Friemar (Gotha district), a 42-year-old was so seriously injured handling firecrackers ordered over the internet that both forearms had to be amputated, a police spokesman said early Sunday morning.
21-year-old lost his hand
In Schleiz-Crispendorf (Saale-Orla district), a 21-year-old lost his hand in an accident involving an explosive device. The illegal bullet bomb exploded as soon as it was ignited, the spokesperson said. Despite the serious injuries, the men are not in danger.
Pedestrian lights up the street: Alko-Lenker killed him
There was another death related to pyrotechnics in Saxony-Anhalt. A pedestrian was hit by a car while setting off fireworks in the street and was fatally injured. The force of the impact threw the 42-year-old several meters across the road early Sunday morning, police said. He died at the scene of the accident in Schönebeck (Elbe) in the Salzland district.
The 61-year-old driver fled after the accident and initially parked his car in a side street. A witness followed him in his own car and, according to the police, was able to persuade him to return. After that, the 61-year-old had a breath alcohol content of 1.86 promille. A blood sample and driver’s license were taken from him.
Police and fire brigade in Berlin attacked with fireworks
In Berlin there were several incidents with New Year’s Eve fireworks around the turn of the year. As the police in the capital wrote in the short message service Twitter on Sunday evening, police officers and firefighters were “assaulted en masse with fireworks” when extinguishing a burning car. “We are now securing firefighting with additional emergency services.” In the Tempelhof district, fireworks and a fire extinguisher were thrown at a bus.
The windshield is destroyed. According to the police, 60 to 80 people in the Lichtenrade district tried to light a vehicle with fireworks.
The windows of a shop were also “blown away” in the German capital. “Our colleague came quickly and then literally came under fire,” the police tweeted. An officer was injured. In Berlin-Mitte, a woman was injured in the neck by fireworks. The police are also reporting operations related to fireworks from other parts of the city: “Idiots fire pyromaniacally at passersby in #Moabit.”
Source: Krone
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