Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) announced quick and decisive reactions after the New Year's Eve riots.

During a visit to the Berlin-Neukölln fire station on Friday, Faeser said that she considers one of the most important points to be that the young offenders immediately felt a quick legal reaction and realized that the state was capable of acting.

She also wants to achieve a tightening of gun laws, for example in dealing with the previously license-free alarm guns.

Faeser also advocated improved social work in day-care centers and schools.

According to the will of the Union, the attacks on emergency services in several German cities should also have a parliamentary aftermath.

The Bundestag must deal with this in one of the first weeks of the new year, demanded the first parliamentary secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Thorsten Frei (CDU), in the Düsseldorf "Rheinische Post" (Friday).

Faeser and Giffey visit a fire station

On Friday, Faeser visited the Neukölln fire station with the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey (SPD), and spoke to emergency services who were on duty on New Year's Eve.

Faeser called it a "disgusting kind of crime" by young people, for example when firefighters were ambushed.

The phenomenon of a lack of respect for emergency services is not new: "We need more respect for what is being done." Regarding the debate about failed integration biographies, Faeser said that it had to be addressed, "who is it about?" It would not be correct to conceal the migration background of perpetrators.

But it would also be wrong to misuse this for political discussions.

"End of Patience Reached"

Giffey sees the "line of disrespect and brutality crossed".

When seasoned firefighters and police officers said that they had never experienced anything like this before, "the end of patience" had been reached.

The Berlin head of government spoke of a "fall in values" that was not only visible on New Year's Eve.

The federal and state governments must now discuss the consequences together, a set of measures is needed, including increasing the number of police and firefighters: "There shouldn't be another New Year's Eve like this."

Berlin's Senator for the Interior, Iris Spranger (SPD), announced that she would give evaluations of criminal offenses to the public prosecutor's office "very quickly".

According to state fire director Karsten Homrighausen, the number of recorded attacks on firefighters has now increased to over 50.

There are 15 injured, one person is in the hospital.

Homrighausen also demanded: "Something like this must not be repeated."

Jarasch: Differences in migration make no difference

In connection with the attacks on New Year's Eve, Bettina Jarasch emphasized that in her opinion, especially in juvenile criminal law, penalties must follow the crime in question quickly.

Clear boundaries and perspectives are important for dealing with youth violence, the Greens' top candidate for the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives told RBB on Friday.

"One of the clear limits is not the debate about penalties, which we are already having again, but that the penalties follow the act immediately," said the Senator for Transport.

But this also means that “the courts are equipped accordingly”.

Jarasch also emphasized that, from her point of view, the migration background of many of the suspects made no difference in solving the problem.

"Two-thirds of the perpetrators have a migration background, which roughly corresponds to the total number of young people in Berlin," said the Greens politician.

“These young people, the next generation of Berlin, mostly have a migration background.

Everyone should get used to that.”

On New Year's Eve, serious riots broke out in several German cities, including Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia.

The head of the Neukölln meeting place mosque association, Mohamed Taha Sabri, condemned the violence in an interview with the Evangelical Press Service (epd).

This comes from young people “who have no prospects”.

"We as civil society have failed to take them with us," Sabri said.