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What explains Berlin's New Year riots?
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What explains Berlin's New Year riots?

Jörg Luyken
Jan 4
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What explains Berlin's New Year riots?
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The Story New Year in Germany is normally an unhinged affair. Even in small towns, Silvester is celebrated with alcohol-fuelled, do-it-yourself firework events in which adults and children alike merrily blast rounds of rockets into the sky. The level of anarchy - and the fact that authorities let it happen - leaves foreigners rubbing their eyes in disbelief.

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