The Berlin police reported first 159, then 145 people arrested after the riots on New Year’s Eve. According to a report by the “Tagesspiegel”, the number of rioters arrested is even significantly lower.
After the New Year’s Eve riots in Berlin, the police corrected their information about those arrested and their nationalities. Contrary to the original information, not 145 people with 18 different nationalities were arrested because of the riots, but only 38 – two thirds of them are German. The “Tagesspiegel” does not write how many of them have a migration background. According to the report, the originally larger number refers to all people who were arrested during the night in the Berlin city area: not only for attacks on emergency services, but also for arson, violations of the explosives law and breach of the peace.
The riots on New Year’s Eve in Berlin triggered a day-long debate about the integration of people with a migration background. Among other things, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) has called for more consistent use of existing penal options when convicting perpetrators. Possible penalties have often “not been exhausted” by the courts, Faeser said on Monday at the annual meeting of the German Civil Service Association (dbb) in Cologne. However, the state and the judiciary must make it clear that misconduct has “sensitive consequences”.
Nancy Faeser: New Year’s Eve riots “completely unacceptable”
Faeser spoke of a new form of violence. When firefighters are ambushed and fired upon with fireworks and blank guns, it is “deeply despicable and totally unacceptable,” she said. There is only one answer to this: “The police must go very consistently into these focal points.” The judiciary would then have to “quickly try these young offenders”. “Only a quick penalty that follows immediately creates respect for our constitutional state.”
Faeser reiterated her statement from the beginning of the year that “in big cities there is a problem with certain young men with a migration background”. They despise the state, commit acts of violence and are “hardly accessible with education and integration programs”. This must be clearly stated, “without stirring up resentment and without generalizing,” said the minister.
355 proceedings after New Year’s Eve in Berlin
The number of those arrested was originally given as 159. There were double counts, said the police spokesman. The numbers are still provisional. A total of 355 criminal and administrative offense proceedings were initiated because of the riots.
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Source: Stern
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