Berlin ? They can’t lay a glove on him.

That was the decision German authorities announced Thursday night after weighing charges against Michael Jackson, who touched off a furor this week when he dangled his wriggling baby boy from a hotel balcony window.

“No crime has been committed,” Berlin police spokesman Klaus Schubert said.

That was welcome news for Jackson, who has been pilloried worldwide since Tuesday when he held his youngest child, Prince Michael 2nd, over a fourth-floor railing as fans gasped below.

Despite some media reports, authorities in Santa Barbara, Calif., said Jackson wouldn’t face any penalty there. Jackson and his three children live in the posh town northwest of Los Angeles on a ranch called Neverland.

“Because it happened in Germany, it’s up to the local authorities to investigate,” said John Gordon, spokesman for California’s Department of Social Services.

Jackson made no mention of his troubles Thursday night at a Berlin gala as he accepted the Bambi Award for Pop Artist of the Millennium from retired tennis star Boris Becker.

Jackson also got a boost Thursday from his brother Jermaine.

“It wasn’t a wise thing to do,” Jermaine Jackson told NBC. “He got caught up in the moment. It’s being blown out of proportion.”

Jackson, who later said he made a “terrible mistake,” also has been criticized for making his two older children – a 5-year-old son also named Prince Michael and 4-year-old daughter, Paris – don gauzy red veils on a trip to the Berlin Zoo.

The two older children didn’t attempt to hide their faces when they appeared briefly in the window of the deluxe Adlon hotel Thursday, waving at the fans still gathered outside.

Jackson, wearing sunglasses and a dressing gown, also appeared in the window and acknowledged the crowd with a wave. So did a Jackson lookalike, who used the curtains to play a game of hide-and-seek with the fans.

Uber fan Alexandra Nowara, who has followed Jackson around the world, said the singer traveled with several lookalikes to thwart would-be kidnappers.

“We know the real one from the doubles,” said Nowara, 26, of Freiburg, Germany. “We can recognize him by the way he moves.”

Little is known about Jackson’s youngest child, who is believed to be 9 months old. The singer has not divulged the name of the boy’s mother. Ex-wife Debbie Rowe is the mother of Jackson’s other children.