Firecrackers on New Year's Eve in Corona times: is the ban coming now? City has made a decision

Firecrackers and rampant celebrations on New Year's Eve - is that possible in Corona times?

The city council has not decided on any new rules for the time being.

Does the federal government have the last word?

• A firecracker ban in Munich * on New Year's Eve is off the table.

• The Munich city council voted against the request.

• The turn of the year could still be very different due to Corona *.

Munich

- As is well

known, opinions differ

about the sense and nonsense of the

.

Also in the

.

There, two motions from the parliamentary groups ÖDP / Free Voters (FW) and Left / The Party were discussed in the district administration committee.

The aim of the move was to

for New Year's Eve 2020/21 in the entire city area.

What, for example, Richard Progl (Bavarian party) could not understand at all: “One should not take this tradition that has become dear to the people.” Tolerance is appropriate and

.

And Progl added: "Seldom has it been so necessary to

chase away

a

."

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Marie Burneleit (The Party) saw it differently.

"We don't have to bawl, we can also smooch and eat raclette this year." Like Tobias Ruff, she demanded a

throughout the city

from the ÖDP

.

For reasons of

, because the

dangerous,

often occur and the hospitals

are already overloaded

in times of the

, as Burneleit said.

Public

would be better

- which, by the way, is currently being examined by the economic department.

The

was ultimately rejected by all other parties.

Legally, this is difficult anyway, although Ruff called on his city council colleagues to “show more courage”.

Responsibility for the

, the

.

Prohibited zones must be clearly justified and may only affect sensitive areas if there is an acute

for buildings or

.

For example in the densely populated

and within the

, where the bang had degenerated in recent years.

There the

on

proven itself from the point of view of the police and city administration.

The district administration committee therefore decided on Tuesday to apply the rule this year as well.

The

outside the

, however, is difficult, said district administration officer Thomas Böhle (SPD).

"There would be a risk of a stained carpet." The KVR boss indicated, however: "I can vividly imagine that the legislature will act to protect against

."

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Cross-party criticism was that municipalities

hardly have any legal control

when issuing

bans.

"We need more freedom here," said Christian Vorländer (SPD).

A request from the CSU was unanimously approved that

(SPD) should campaign

for changes in this regard

at the

.

Evelyne Menges (CSU) said that at citizens' meetings it can be seen again and again that a large majority

reject

the

.

A thorn in the side of the city council is that for legal reasons there is no

around the zoo.

Green spokeswoman Gudrun Lux expressed her

sympathy for the general

for a

. It was completely absurd

to allow intoxicated people to

firecrackers

by virtue of the

.

Similar to Böhle, however, Lux also prophesied: “There will probably be

this year due to the pandemic anyway

.”