Berlin's CDU state and parliamentary group leader Kai Wegener called for more modern police equipment in the discussion about a possible ban on firecrackers after attacks on rescue and security forces on New Year's Eve. "We finally have to get here," said his party's top candidate in the Berlin election campaign on RBB Inforadio on Tuesday morning. "Our police need modern equipment so that we can protect them better."

So-called bodycams are needed to better document operations, but above all to "detect criminal offenses with reliable evidence so that we can then really put the perpetrators under lock and key". Here the Senate fails “across the board”.

With a view to the origin of the perpetrators on New Year's Eve, Wegner called for clarification from Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD). "I want to hear a clear set of facts from the interior senator, where the perpetrators come from, where the group of perpetrators is," emphasized Wegner. Then there is a need for enlightenment and educational work in the schools, "to make it clear there that the police, this constitutional state, is not the enemy, but the friend."