New Year’s Eve in Berlin: Police speak of a quiet night – helicopter tracks down gatherings – Berlin

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December 31, 2020
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Police spokesman Thilo Cablitz describes New Year’s Eve as “very quiet”. At the moment everything is under control, he told the Tagesspiegel. There were isolated gatherings of groups of people at Hermannplatz, in Gleisdreieck Park, in the Märkisches Viertel and in Gropiusstadt. Fireworks were sometimes set off. According to police information, the gatherings were dissolved and personal details were determined. (More about the events of New Year’s Eve in the blog below).

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Empty Steinmetzkiez – helicopter tracks down gatherings

No cars on Bülowstrasse

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Joana Nietfeld

The Steinmetzkiez is deserted. The police cordoned off a large area. Only taxis, buses and residents are allowed to pass. Police spokesman Thilo Cablitz told the Tagesspiegel: “You can see and hear it – it’s very, very quiet here.” The police are with me up to 150 emergency services on site in the neighborhood. “We are very, very grateful that the vast majority of people in Berlin take the protection against infection into account and thus help to contain the pandemic.”

The police regulate the traffic.

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Joana Nietfeld

Im Gleisdreieckpark Meanwhile, a few youngsters bawl. In the sky above a helicopter circles. The Berlin police are also in the air and check from there whether there are large crowds. In the early evening, so Cablitz, were up to 300 people in the Gleisdreieck Park area. The police patrol the wide concrete paths with patrol cars.

Police spokesman Thilo Cablitz

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Joana Nietfeld

Individual meetings dissolved – police helicopter circled over Berlin

Police spokesman Thilo Cablitz describes New Year’s Eve as “very quiet”. At the moment everything is under control, he told the Tagesspiegel. According to the police information, there were isolated gatherings of groups of people at Hermannplatz, in Gleisdreieck Park, in the Märkisches Viertel and in Gropiusstadt. Sometimes fireworks were set off, alarm weapons were used or alcohol was consumed on the street. The meetings were dissolved by officials and personal details were established.

With a helicopter, the police have the situation in view, said Cablitz. This is currently circling over the Kreuzberg Gleisdreieck Park, as our reporter Joana Nietfeld reports

The police prevent gatherings in Gropiusstadt, in the Märkisches Viertel and on Hermannplatz.

First patient in the accident hospital in Marzahn

The Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (ukb) has just reported the first patient with # Böllerschmerz in the emergency room. Read in this report what else is going on here on New Year’s Eve.

Fireworks at Innsbrucker Platz

Fireworks are currently being set off in Schöneberg, as our reporter Joana Nietfeld reports on site.

And in Kreuzberg around the Anhalter Bahnhof, the firecrackers and rocket frequencies are increasing. Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) just said in the evening show that the police are not interested in preventing any lonely missile. It was about “preventing accumulations”. It’s pretty quiet at the moment.

Police spokesman praises responsible citizens

Thilo Cablitz, Spokesman for the Berlin police, said in the RBB evening show that New Year’s Eve so far “very quiet” had run. The people in Berlin behaved very responsible. There were only isolated violations, but that was in the low “double-digit range” and hardly worth mentioning for a large city. Cablitz emphasized that he hoped that it stays so calm.

Chancellor gives New Years address

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) is currently holding her New Years address on ZDF. In it, she thanks for the perseverance of the citizens during the pandemic. The speech can also be viewed online here. Or read our summary.

The Chancellor will address the citizens for the last time on New Year’s Eve. Never during her tenure “did we all find the old year so difficult.”

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New Year’s Eve show without an audience

The big one starts at 9.45 p.m. New Year’s Eve show at the Brandenburg Gate. For the first time without an audience. Stars like Álvaro Soler or Jürgen Drews will appear. Read here why our media critic Joachim Huber thinks the project is absurd. In the meantime, the police are careful not to gather an audience after all.

The city is as empty as never before on December 31st

Little is going on on the streets in Neukölln

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Joana Nietfeld

The seller will close the snack bar on Sonnenallee around 7 p.m. “There’s nothing going on at all,” he says. The store is usually open until 10 p.m. The hustle and bustle of the street and the firecracker frequency are not comparable with the last few years.

Everything is quiet on Sonnenallee

Our reporter Joana Nietfeld is out and about in the neighborhoods of Berlin on New Year’s Eve. So far, the city has never been so quiet on December 31st.

Spätis and supermarkets in Neukölln closed or empty

At Netto on the Sonnenallee there is hardly anything going on shortly before the shop closes at 6 p.m. The liquor shelves are suspended. Late on the opposite side of the street the blinds are down. Individual passers-by are out and about with shopping bags. Also at Lidlwho as one of the few Supermarkets until 8 p.m. is open, there are hardly any customers in the branch. The shelves with alcohol are blocked by freezers.

In the side streets to Sonnenallee there is more activity: rockets and firecrackers can be heard again and again. Spätis are open occasionally.

Suspended spirits at Netto.

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Joana Nietfeld

The Brandenburg Gate lights up

Brandenburg Gate

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Christophe Gateau / dpa

The final preparations for the New Year’s Eve show without a live audience at the Brandenburg Gate are underway. From 9.45 p.m. the live acts and performances will be broadcast live on ZDF – as will the big New Year’s Eve fireworks at the turn of the year.

Geisel and Giffey visit police officers on New Year’s Eve

Berlin’s Senator for the Interior Andreas Geisel (SPD) and the SPD state chairwoman, Federal Minister for Family Affairs Franziska Giffey, have Berliners in the afternoon Visited police officers on their New Year’s Eve.

Am Big star both politicians met one Stake, informed themselves about the upcoming mission and thanked the officials for their work. The police are around at night 2900 forces in action.

Due to the Corona crisis, there are special conditions this year: In dozen of restricted areas, the burning of remains Fireworks prohibited. The Senate had also ordered a ban on the sale of firecrackers and rockets. Injuries and crowds of people should be prevented in this way. Nevertheless, the police and fire brigade prepared for New Year’s Eve in the usual way. (dpa)

Berlin’s Senator for the Interior and the state chairwoman during the visit of the Einsatzhundschaft at the Großer Stern.

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Christophe Gateau / dpa

Andreas also visited Geisel in the evening the Neukölln fire station of the Berlin fire brigade, to thank the employees who are on duty this New Year’s Eve.

But it’s not quiet in all neighborhoods …

Berliners hardly recognize their city on New Year’s Eve

Stay away from alcohol

Shops in Berlin have not been allowed to sell alcohol since 2 p.m. This is how a supermarket in Schöneberg informs its customers.

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Photo: Christoph Soeder / dpa

A party without an audience

Preparations and barriers for the annual New Year’s Eve celebration at the Brandenburg Gate. Due to the corona pandemic, this year the celebration will only take place as a television broadcast without a live audience.

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imago / Kriemannx / xFuturexImage

Unusually quiet in the Soldiner Kiez

Actually, on New Year’s Eve, it pops every few seconds in the Soldiner Kiez and around Osloer Straße – and it usually doesn’t stop again until January 2nd. So far this year there are only a few penguins and clonks to be heard – but rather sporadically and also felt less loud.

This year it’s really nice and relaxed here in the neighborhood before New Year’s Eve. Last year people drove up here at the playground two days before with shopping carts full of guns. They then roared through until the New Year, so that the windows in our kitchen shook. It’s a shame that a pandemic had to come first to make for such pleasant days before New Year’s Eve.
Residents in the playground on the Weigandufer in Neukölln

Actually, nothing is the same this year …

… except that Dinner for One is again a fixed point of the evening. And no matter how Corona-compliant, the two. Splendid

Accident hospital tweets again about firecrackers injuries

The first point of contact for serious injuries caused by firecrackers is the Berlin Accident Hospital. Every year on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve, information is provided about the accidents and injuries under the hashtag # Böllerschmerz – and at the end a balance is drawn

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