2024–2025 German New Year's Eve pyrotechnics incidents

During the celebration of New Year's Eve and day between 2024 and 2025, several incidents involving the use of pyrotechnics occurred throughout Germany, resulting in the deaths of five people, the injury of several dozens, and culminating in the arrests of least 330. The celebrations had seen unusually intense mishandling of both legally purchased and illegally improvised pyrotechnic items and possibly due to a widespread tampering and distribution campaign of deliberately defective consumer pyrotechnics items. Some 15 law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency services were injured as due to being pelted with illegal fireworks in Cologne, Leipzig and Hamburg. Some 330 people were detained in the capital Berlin overnight, contrary to previous years, where there were no major violence or incidents.