As on the previous weekends, nightly open-air parties in green spaces and squares escalated in several German cities. The police reported attacks on law enforcement officers, especially on Saturday night. For example, when a party at Aachener Weiher in Cologne was broken up with DJs and around 1000 participants, two police officers and an employee of the public order office were slightly injured by throwing bottles. "The aggressiveness and disrespect for the colleagues in the security service and the police shocked me deeply," said Andrea Blome, head of the Cologne city crisis team.
In Münster the police cleared a popular meadow on the Aasee on Saturday night "because of aggressive rioters". After hundreds of visitors had initially celebrated peacefully, the situation escalated over the course of the night, the police said. Up to 250 people, some of whom were drunk, would have set firecrackers on fire, thrown plastic and glass bottles at emergency services and ignored the request to leave the premises via loudspeaker announcements. According to the police, property damage to flower pots and bicycles as well as noise pollution occurred after the evacuation.
In Jena in Thuringia, during controls in the Paradies Park, where around 2000 mostly young people celebrated, bottles also flew on employees of the regulatory office, as the city administration announced.
An officer was injured and two emergency vehicles were damaged.
"The threat to the officials was massive," said a city spokesman.
Ultimately, the rioters even got the upper hand: In view of the large number of celebrants, the relatively small number of emergency services would have waived to break up the rounds with official authority, the spokesman said.
Riot in Berlin's Mauerpark
In the capital, too, large parties in several parks called the police on the scene.
Residents were annoyed by the noise.
Here, too, there were riots several times.
In Berlin's Mauerpark, for example, where hundreds of people celebrated, officials were attacked and bottles were thrown at, said a police spokeswoman.
The main priority in all missions was music that was too loud, and there were still applicable pandemic requirements.
The operations on the mild summer nights are currently a challenge for the police.
“We understand mild summer evenings in inviting parks, but not for loud and crowded groups partying through the night, attacking the emergency services and throwing bottles at them when they want to give the residents their legitimate peace,” tweeted the Berlin police on Saturday evening.
Large parties, especially in parks, were also reported from numerous other cities, but for the most part they were peaceful. Often, however, there were complaints about disturbance of the peace, music systems were secured. The weather forecast for the coming days indicates that the party will continue: the forecast will increase the temperatures to 30 degrees and more, and it should stay around 20 degrees at night as well.
Meanwhile, regional attempts to reopen the clubs are underway. In Melle in Lower Saxony, however, a discotheque with around 670 partiers was cleared on Sunday night: The corona hygiene concept had not been implemented, the specified measures had not been observed, the police said. In Berlin, the “Open Air” pilot project was to be used on Sunday in the “Revier Südost” club to test how to safely dance outdoors during the corona pandemic. The 300 participants had to be tested, vaccinated or recovered, and wearing a mask was compulsory on the dance floor.