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Germany Vows Crackdown After Brutal New Year’s Violence

  • Assailants attacked police and firefighters with fireworks
  • More than 100 detained in Berlin, one officer seriously hurt
Firefighters extinguish a fire on a coach in Berlin on Jan. 1. 

Firefighters extinguish a fire on a coach in Berlin on Jan. 1. 

Photographer: Paul Zinken/picture alliance/Getty Images

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Germany vowed to crack down on people responsible for violence around the weekend’s New Year celebrations, in which police, paramedics and firefighters were targeted with fireworks and dozens were injured. 

“The government, and of course the chancellor as well, condemns these at times massive attacks in the strongest possible terms,” Christiane Hoffmann, a spokeswoman for Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said Monday at the regular government news conference in Berlin.