The scenes were ” worthy of a civil war.” In the night from Saturday to Sunday in Stuttgart, Germany, more than a dozen police officers were slightly injured and many shops vandalised during violent clashes with hundreds of young people. A local politician of the social democratic party, Sascha Binder, has thus spoken of “scenes worthy of a civil war,” and “street fighting,” by requiring that all light be shed on the ” horrible night that has been experienced in Stuttgart “.
The incidents broke out around midnight after a police check for a case of narcotic that has degenerated in a place where there were gathered approximately 500 young people, said the local law enforcement officials Sunday in a press release. In small groups, the crowd then headed towards the city centre. Young people, often carrying hoods to avoid being identified, ” were heavily damaged police cars parked in the street by smashing their windows with blows of iron bars, poles, and threw stones and cobbles removed from the public road to other vehicles of the forces of order come and go “, stressed the police in its press release.
shops looted
The forces of order have also been assaulted by the crowd. A total of ‘more than a dozen police officers” have been slightly wounded on this occasion, she added. Several showcases of the shops have also been broken and the fronts of stores looted, including one of the great shopping streets of the city, as shown by a variety of amateur videos circulating on social networks. The public tv channel local SWR speaks in particular of a jewelry store, a fast-food establishment or a shop of mobile phones.
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The calm is not income to 3 hours in the morning, after the arrival of police reinforcements. The police have indicated that they have arrested twenty people. Similar incidents had already occurred the prior weekends in the city, but they were smaller.
