German police seize 850 kg of fireworks at home

German police said Sunday seizure of 850 kilograms of fireworks and firecrackers at the home of a 23-year-old man before the New Year festivities.

The police were warned by a neighbor of the storage of a large quantity of pyrotechnic material. The security forces found the fireworks packed in the young man's apartment, in a cellar and in two vans, a spokesman for the Hamburg police told the DPA news agency.