Parts of Amsterdam will be designated a safety risk area for New Year’s Eve. According to Mayor Femke Halsema, this allows police to carry out preventive searches to detect heavy and illegal fireworks.The decision follows several years of unrest. Numerous neighborhoods experienced public order disturbances and incidents with heavy fireworks. There were also acts of serious vandalism, arson at multiple locations, and attacks on bystanders and emergency personnel using very heavy fireworks.