the police draws a first balance
12.10 PM: Meanwhile, the police has drawn a first balance sheet: The police reported that on the morning of 20 arrests and more than a dozen injured police officers. More than 200 police officers from the Stuttgart surroundings were temporarily ordered to the state capital to get the situation under control. Police helicopters flew over the city. In the Morning, the police secured the tracks. Details and background to the riots were not initially communicated.
politicians from Baden-Württemberg with horror to the violent events of responding in the city centre of Stuttgart. FDP and SPD parliamentary group, announced a special session of the interior Committee in the Parliament for the upcoming week. Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU), had to report in detail about the criminal violence and its measures for the protection of society and police, called for the FDP parliamentary leader Hans-Ulrich Rülke. dpa/Sebastian Gollnow/dpabild Thomas Strobl (CDU), Minister for home Affairs, digitisation and Migration of Baden-Württemberg.
“I’m shocked”: First reactions to the riots in Stuttgart
Sunday, 21. June, 11.32 PM: “I am shocked by the outbreak of violence, the attacks on the police & the devastation in our city,” writes Lord mayor of Stuttgart Fritz Kuhn on Twitter. “This is a sad Sunday for Stuttgart. We analyse the Events carefully. One thing must be clear: There must be no no-go areas in Stuttgart.”
Also, the Green politician Cem Özdemir took position. On Twitter, the Bundestag Deputy from Stuttgart, Germany wrote: “I’m shocked by the terrible events in our city of Stuttgart. No matter from which direction this fool comes of the destruction of violence, there is no justification! The perpetrators must be caught. Thank you to all the responders & the Hurt will get well soon!”
What do we know about the Stuttgart-escalation – and what can’t know, we
knowledge of Stuttgart city centre it came in on Sunday night to violent riots. Dozens of violent small groups had begun according to police sources, around midnight, to injured in the city of rampage , and also police officers. Several hundred people were involved, said a police spokeswoman FOCUS Online on demand.
trigger was a police control due to a drug offence, said the police. Bystanders were linearized with the Controlled solid. More than a dozen police officers injuries . the 20 persons were taken into custody.
Parked patrol cars were heavily damaged. With rods and poles, was embarked on the vehicles, the panes shattered. On passing strip rioters threw large stones and other objects, also paving stones ripped from the ground, or from construction sites were recorded. “The Situation is completely out of control,” said a police spokesman in the night. the use of forces from the entire state of had been summoned to the capital to get the situation under control.
There is video footage of young men, came against the window panes of shops or paving stones out of the ground cracks. the The police spokesman said: “It was really rampage .” A number of shops were affected, in addition to vehicles. There have also been looting . Focus areas of the castle were square and the adjacent king street, which is known as Stuttgart’s shopping mile. Riots in Stuttgart: the Videos show the whole extent of the rampage FOCUS Online/Wochit riots in Stuttgart: the Videos show the whole extent of the wreck
On Sunday morning it was said that the situation had calmed down a little . To see the damage, were there: the shop Windows were phone several shops smashed. Among other things, also an ice cream parlour on king street, and a well-known clothing store near the Charlotte square from the riot affected. For the safety of the police with a large contingent in the downtown area present, the police spokesman.
The bulk of the forces, the Baden, and other Parts-württemberg, had been summoned to the state capital, has Stuttgart leave, therefore, now and again. Christoph Schmidt/dpa
What we don’t
know About the background to the conflict nothing was initially known. From serious injury a police spokesman initially knew nothing.
The police did not comment initially on whether the mastermind the recent destruction of the police are attributable to well-known scenes. “We still have absolutely no guess,” said a police spokeswoman FOCUS Online on Sunday morning. Currently, the police is to get an Overview. “We are now trying to fathom out what it was and what it could be.”
Other event: a few days Ago, the Stuttgart police had spoken to incidents on the outskirts of a Demonstration of border crossings. “Parts of the left scene exceed here are straight lines, what we have for Stuttgart so far not known,” said a police spokesman.
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