Germany, a multicultural nation with a history of extreme New Year's Eve violence, including the horrific Cologne mass sexual assault, is bracing for violence tonight by deploying thousands of emergency workers.
Following years of violence, including attacks on firefighters rushing to extinguish deliberately set fires in notoriously “sensitive” areas in 2016, European capitals such as Paris and Berlin will remain in lockdown for New Year's Eve. It is adding thousands of police officers, emergency vehicles and even the military. Group sex attack.
A state of emergency will be preemptively declared in Berlin tonight at 7pm local time (1pm Eastern time) as the fire brigade prepares for its busiest night of the year. The brigade has been strengthened with trained volunteer brigade personnel, bringing the number of officers on duty tonight to 1,544, with additional support from the German Civil Defense (THW) and private charity volunteers, and is fighting as many fires as usual. They hope to extinguish the fire overnight. 2 months.
In addition, 4,000 police officers will be deployed to the German capital tonight, including to escort firefighters and paramedics to emergencies. die welt newspaper call it euphemistically “Area considered to be highly confidential.” On New Year's Eve 2023, a firefighter was assaulted 30 times by members of the public in the city.
of Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) quote Benjamin Gendro, a spokesman for the Berlin police union, said: “Fires are breaking out in many places, vehicles are being set on fire, conflicts are escalating… Every year our colleagues begin the new year with injuries. “There is,” he said.
news magazine stern state Some military personnel have also been sent to Berlin.
Germany is not the only European country affected by large-scale New Year's Eve violence. In France, it has been a decades-old tradition for young people living on the outskirts of multicultural cities to burn cars on New Year's Eve – in some years, more than 1,000 cars were burned in one night. The capital Paris will deploy 10,000 police officers tonight, both in the city center and on the outskirts.
le figaro memo A police spokesperson said the large-scale deployment was to “guarantee the safety of people and property and prevent disruption of public order, while the threat of terrorism remains high.” Large parts of central Paris will be completely closed to car traffic, and up to one million people are expected to attend the festival.
In Stockholm, Sweden, a police spokesperson said “a lot of trouble” was expected overnight and extra personnel had been brought in to deal with it. Meanwhile, Brussels police compared the operation planned for tonight to the level of security deployed for a European Union or NATO summit, with a “significantly increased” number of police officers.
And these massive preparations are not limited to the capital, with many regional cities being forced to take war-like precautions against New Year's Eve violence. A number of additional emergency vehicles are being prepared in Hamburg, Germany, including trucks loaned by the military. large police presence Aided by drones, a stop-and-search operation will be launched in the city center looking for fireworks, which have been banned this year, as well as weapons that have undergone “targeted” inspections.
Hundreds of extra police officers are on patrol in the city, which was notorious for sexual assaults by gangs of German women and girls celebrating New Year's Eve in the city center in 2016. The protection of the city's synagogues has been strengthened in light of “continued tensions in the country.” middle east”.
Overall, the NZZ says, “German cities are bracing for riots.” In Belgian cities, some “young people” known as troublemakers have been placed under preventive house arrest and curfews imposed.
Breitbart News has long reported on the lingering problems European cities are experiencing with New Year's Eve violence and the implicit support that this violence is caused by young people from immigrant communities. The most notorious of all these cases was the 2015-2016 sexual assault case in Cologne, where police eventually recorded more than 1,000 victims in North Rhine-Westphalia.
After successfully cracking down on crime during the following year's celebrations, Cologne police were criticized for racial profiling.
On New Year's Eve 2022-2023, large-scale migrant riots broke out in Germany in Berlin, causing widespread fires and injuries. The riot became a major media story after domestic publishers were accused of using carefully chosen words to downplay the perpetrators of the violence.
