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According to a media report, there were at least 282 attacks on police and firefighters nationwide on New Year's Eve.
The "Tagesspiegel" reports, citing its own survey of all 16 interior ministries of the federal states.
The actual number is probably even higher: some federal states such as Hesse and Baden-Württemberg would not have given any numbers of attacks on emergency services.
Attacks have also been reported in these federal states.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior on Tuesday, the federal states have not yet sent any official figures to the authority.
Most of the attacks were in the capital
According to the newspaper, there was the highest number of attacks
in
Berlin
.
Here the police have now confirmed 59 reported attacks against police officers and 43 against the fire brigade and rescue service, it was said.
In
Lower Saxony
, the Ministry of the Interior has confirmed attacks on 42 emergency services,
42 emergency services were also injured on
New Year's Eve in
North Rhine-Westphalia .
According to the Ministry of the Interior, there were 34 attacks on emergency services
in
Bavaria .
Hamburg
also
reported a relatively large number of attacks on New Year's Eve with 19 attacks, it said.
In the other federal states, the attacks on emergency services were in the single-digit range.
After the New Year's Eve riots, which were also directed against police officers, firefighters and rescue workers, a debate broke out about whether there should be an increase in punishment.
Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) said that the main thing was to enforce the applicable law and that he "in this sense sees no need" for another change in criminal law.
In connection with New Year's Eve, 145 people of 18 different nationalities were arrested in Berlin.
These included numerous cases of direct attacks on police officers and firefighters.
lmd/dpa