Once again he did POLICE Large quantities of fireworks confiscated in Berlin. During a search of an apartment on Monday in the Lichtenberg district, about 50 so-called PTB weapons, namely empty pistols and signal pistols, were found alongside more than 30 boxes of fireworks technology, police announced.
A 56-year-old witness called the police because he was threatened with a gun by a resident of the Friedrichsfelde district on Mellenseestrasse. A special police unit arrested the 54-year-old suspect. The boxes were later found.
On Tuesday alone, police discovered and confiscated more than 800 kilograms of illegal fireworks and 350 kilograms of chemicals in major raids. Several men were said to have kept and sold fireworks items illegally. Apartments and storage rooms in Charlottenburg, Wedding, Reinickendorf and Pankow were searched.
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