Munich (dpa / lby) - Like a "typical New Year's Eve before Corona" - this is how a police spokesman from Lower Franconia described the number of operations at this year's turn of the year on Sunday morning. In the rest of Bavaria, too, it was mainly smaller operations that employed the police and fire brigade. More serious fires also broke out in Swabia and Upper Bavaria. In most Bavarian administrative districts, the emergency services at the turn of the year mainly dealt with minor fires, disturbances of the peace, physical injuries and damage to property caused by firecrackers.
According to the police, New Year's Eve was also rather quiet in the state capital. Around 20,000 people celebrated the turn of the year in Munich at Marienplatz and in the pedestrian zone. The city had issued a complete ban on fireworks in this area. In seven cases, the police reported violations of this ban. The Munich police also received around ten calls from dog and cat owners whose four-legged friends had run away frightened by New Year's Eve crackers. In several cases, people who had run into animals reported. This is how some of the owners found their animals again.
There were larger operations in Upper Bavaria and Swabia: A resident was slightly injured in a house fire in Leobendorf (Berchtesgadener Land district). The cause of the fire was initially unclear. In Tacherting (Traunstein district) a barn was set on fire by rockets. The fire then spread to an adjacent home. However, nobody was injured in the fire. In both cases, the police estimate the damage to be in the five-digit range.
In the Swabian town of Mönchdeggingen (Donau-Ries district), the balcony of an apartment building caught fire for reasons that have not yet been clarified. The flames then spread to the attic of the home. According to the police, no one was injured here either. The damage amounts to around 100,000 euros.
