After months of corona lockdown, people are pushing outside.
This is increasingly causing problems - and in some cases it is also dangerous for the police.
In several cities in Germany, celebrations took place on the last weekend in May, including Stuttgart, Regensburg, Hamburg and Munich.
On Saturday night, guests in a bar in Leipzig had resisted a corona check with violent attacks on police officers.
Three officers were injured during the operation, two of them had to be treated in hospital, according to the police.
The attackers only let off an officer who was already on the ground when another police officer fired a warning shot.
According to a survey by “Welt am Sonntag”, local authorities and the police complain of an increasing lack of understanding, verbal conflicts and sometimes physical attacks when employees of public order offices monitor compliance with the mask requirement and distance requirements.
A spokesman for the city of Cologne told the “WamS” that people would react “more and more impatiently and irritably” to controls.
“Some of the security staff were specifically spat at, bitten or otherwise physically attacked.” The cities of Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dortmund, Essen, Nuremberg and Duisburg also report increasing levels of aggression.
"More civilized on the Ballermann than on the shoulder blade"
In the
Stuttgart city
of many young people were injured by the police, several police officers late Saturday night in clashes and provisionally detained young rioters.
The pictures brought back memories of the so-called Stuttgart night of riot in June 2020. At that time, dozens of people, especially young men, rioted in the city of Stuttgart.
Since last Thursday, Stuttgart residents no longer have to be home at 10:00 p.m. for the first time in weeks.
However, the alcohol ban in many places in the Baden-Württemberg city continues to exist.
After the large-scale operation, the city and the police are examining a ban on staying in the popular areas in the city.
In
Hamburg
, the Second Mayoress Katharina Fegebank (Greens) called the celebrations of thousands in the Schanzenviertel “totally out of place”.
The virus was not out of the world, "and the Ballermann is currently more civilized than on the shoulder blade," she said.
After an illegal rave party, officials evacuated the Schanzenviertel on Sunday night.
At the peak, around 4500 people celebrated and drank there, the police said.
In
Weiden
in the Upper Palatinate, celebrants left a "swath of devastation", as the police said.
Around 60 young people rioted.
Youngsters damaged parked cars, a billboard and a barrier on Saturday night.
In
Regensburg
, the police broke up a gathering at the Stone Bridge.
Many then moved on towards the city center.
There were also around 250 people there at times.
The mood was sometimes very aggressive, it said.
When the police wanted to break up the crowd, bottles are said to have flown again towards the officials.
The Kö as a stage for car posers
In
Munich
there was a tumult on Odeonsplatz on Saturday night after a bottle was thrown on a patrol car. According to the police, some bystanders then “showed aggressive behavior”. Several "males" were arrested. A police spokeswoman emphasized that the operation is not comparable to the operation in the English Garden almost three weeks ago, in which 19 officers were slightly injured when throwing bottles.
In
Düsseldorf
, North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) got an idea of the implementation of the alcohol and lingering ban in the old town on Sunday. The police control center spoke of a largely calm situation. In the early Sunday morning, however, the mood had become more aggressive. The restrictions are a reaction to excessive violations of the Corona requirements on the days of Pentecost. Both on Friday and Saturday evening, barriers on the "Kö" (Königsallee) were partially pushed away or bypassed in order to still get onto the boulevard. "We have no understanding for the audacity of some road users who think they have to use the Kö as their stage and will keep a close eye on this in the future," said a police spokesman.
In
Hanover
, too, so-called car posers met with highly motorized cars and the police showed their presence at the Maschsee. Around 100 threats were made, 40 cars were checked and 19 violations of the corona rules were found, the police said on Sunday. In the Linden-Nord district, where young people meet on the weekends, there were 300 addresses of threats, 100 expulsions and around 40 proceedings due to corona violations.