Wild New Year's fireworks in Berlin again prompt calls for crackdown

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2025-01-02

Berlin (dpa) - After another New Year's Eve marked by damage and injuries from fireworks explosions across Berlin, some local politicians are calling for other measures to crack down on illegal fireworks. On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, numerous people in Berlin were injured, some of them seriously, by illegal fireworks. Unlike in many other countries, in Germany anyone can purchase fireworks and set them off on New Year's Eve, expect in de......

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