Germany braces for potential New Year’s Eve riots Police have stepped up preparations to deal with violence against them and emergency service staff on New Year's Eve. There are worries that the situation in the Middle East could worsen the problem.

December 21, 2023   

(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said she fears a repeat of New Year rioting and attacks on emergency services in Berlin and other cities.

“I’m worried that New Year’s Eve could once again be a day on which we are forced to experience blind rage and senseless violence in some cities, for example, against police officers or emergency services,” Faeser told the RND media group in comments published on Thursday.

At the start of 2023, at least 41 police officers were hurt in the capital alone, and there were dozens of attacks on emergency responders.

There were reports firetrucks were supposedly “lured into ambushes” and shot at with fireworks and pelted with stones and beer crates in cities including Cologne, Hamburg and Dortmund.

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