BZ editor Isabel Pfannkuche comments on the Halloween riots in Berlin, as here at the Gesundbrunnen Center Photo: spreepicture/BZ Montage
By Isabel Pancake
Incredible scenes on Halloween night: young people abused the evening for riots!
The festival from the USA has also been established in Berlin for a long time: children run from door to door, asking for treats with the slogan “trick or treat”. Teens and young adults dress up for Halloween parties.
But in Neukölln and Gesundbrunnen there was no celebration, but rioting. Particularly shameful: Teenagers threw firecrackers at wheelchair users! And the residents were not even safe within their own four walls.
Police officers in the capital have already been attacked with pyrotechnics in the past. Bad enough. But this riot had a completely different dimension – despicable attacks on defenseless fellow citizens! An expression of blind aggression.