Unease in Cologne Cologne's main Cathedral lit up with fireworks Image: Reuters/W. In the late afternoon twilight revelers across Berlin lit fireworks, with a massive display around midnight continuing into the early hours of Sunday.īerlin police said apart from two cases of sexual harassment, the evening passed off peacefully.ĭW's Laura Schneider reported that earlier in the evening, a man was arrested after he shouted 'bomb, bomb, bomb' during the Berlin celebrations at the city's landmark Brandenburg Gate. Police tweeted that it was 'not funny' and he would now be welcoming in the New Year with them. The Festmeile (party mile) which leads to the city's famous Brandenburg Gate, which was packed with revelers, was ringed by concrete barriers in an attempt to prevent similar rampage incidents. Organizers of the New Year festivities in Germany's capital said hundreds of thousands of people were present on Saturday night, barely two weeks after Tunisian Anis Amri rammed a truck into a Berlin Christmas market.

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