Late on Saturday evening in downtown Stuttgart, several police officers were injured and young rioters were provisionally arrested in clashes between numerous young people and the police. According to the police, between 500 and 600 people had gathered on the popular open staircase on Schlossplatz, even though it had been cleared the evening before.
The mood had turned on Sunday night when police officers approached celebrants about the alcohol ban and the corona requirements for gatherings. When the police officers cleared the outside staircase again, bottles flew, police officers said they were massively insulted and arguments broke out. Pepper spray was also used, it said.
Alcohol ban still applies
According to the police, a total of six people were provisionally arrested, but later released. Five police officers were injured. The situation in the city center did not calm down until around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.
Police officers show their presence in downtown Stuttgart
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Since last Thursday, Stuttgart residents no longer have to be home at 10:00 p.m. for the first time in weeks. However, the ban on alcohol in many public places in the Baden-Württemberg city continues to exist. After the large-scale operation, the city and the police are examining a ban on staying in the affected areas in the city.
Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel cordoned off
The pictures from the Stuttgart night bring back memories of the so-called Stuttgart night of riot in June 2020. At that time, dozens of people, especially young men, rioted in the city of Stuttgart.
Police officers in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel
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In Hamburg, too, the police had a lot to do when they did it after an illegal rave party
Had cleared and cordoned off Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel. In a park had turned around
1300 people gathered for a celebration with loud music on Saturday evening. Since a large number of people violated the distances and mask requirement due to the Corona protection order, the party was broken up by the police. Thereupon
people streamed into the Schanzenviertel and continued celebrating there.
Throwing bottles at police officers
When the police cracked down on the celebrants there, bottles were thrown at the officers. Several people have been identified. Shops and restaurants in the Schanzenviertel also had to close at 11 p.m. instead of midnight.
In Weiden in the Upper Palatinate, 60 young people left a “path of devastation” on Saturday night, as the police reported. The group had moved through the city that night. When patrol vehicles approached, the group broke up.
The mood becomes more irritable
According to a survey by “Welt am Sonntag”, local authorities and the police complain of an increasing lack of understanding, verbal conflicts and sometimes physical attacks when employees of public order offices monitor compliance with the mask requirement and distance requirements.
A spokesman for the city of Cologne told the “WamS” that people would react “more and more impatient and irritable” to controls. “Some of the security staff were specifically spat at, bitten or otherwise physically attacked.”
According to a spokesman for the city of Frankfurt am Main, there is “in the very few cases” insight, especially when it comes to mask controls. The cities of Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dortmund, Essen, Nuremberg and Duisburg are also reporting increasing levels of aggression.
nob / haz (dpa, afp)
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