Posted on 07/18/2017 3:57:05 PM PDT by Gamecock
Authorities in the town of Schorndorf in Baden-Württemberg have expressed shock after police and bystanders were attacked by members of a group of around 1,000 youths.
Police report that a group of around 1,000 teenagers and young men gathered on Saturday evening in the grounds of Schorndorf Castle, as the small town celebrated the second day of its week-long town fair. According to police, a large portion of the group had immigrant backgrounds.
From within the group, beer bottles were thrown at the walls of the castle, at other festival-goers, and eventually at police officers.
“The violence faced by police was shocking,” a police spokesperson said, adding that while it was normal for large numbers of youth to gather at the festival, the aggression was new.
When officers tried to arrest one suspect on suspicion of causing serious bodily harm, the situation escalated, with many people getting involved to try to hinder the arrest.
Police then called for backup. More officers arrived at the scene in riot gear, “to shield the arrest and to prevent an attack.” As officers withdrew from the scene, they were again attacked with bottles.
Eventually police called in support from nearby towns to counteract what they described as "massive potential for violence."
Throughout the night, groups of between 30 to 50 young men were seen acting aggressively in the medieval town centre. Eyewitnesses reported seeing people armed with knives, while one man was said to have fired a shot from a blank-firing gun.
Police reported damage to three of their vehicles, one with graffiti and another that was damaged after being hit by bottles.
Three incidents of sexual assaults against women were also reported on Friday evening, while one was reported on Saturday.
An Iraqi man was being investigated in connection with one of the assaults on Friday. After a 17-year-old reported being held against her will and then groped on her backside on Saturday, three Afghani men were also being investigated for the crime.
Police chief Roland Eisele urged other women to come forward if they were abused on Friday or Saturday night during the chaotic scenes.
Eisele said "the aggression and escalation of violence" were unprecedented and unexpected in the town of about 40,000 people, located near Stuttgart.
In a press conference on Monday, Eisele evoked the chaos of Cologne's infamous 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations when men of North African and Middle Eastern appearance groped and assaulted hundreds of women, sparking widespread public outrage.
He stressed that the rowdy scenes in Schorndorf were less intense than those in Cologne or the riots in the northern port-city of Hamburg before and during the July 7th-8th Group of 20 summit, when far-left and anarchist militants burnt street barricades and threw rocks from rooftops.
Another riot in Germany, at least two incidents of sexual assault
“Youths” will be “youths”?
That’s a beautiful part of Germany. Guess the muzzies can stain anything.
EUrabia has a fever.. and the only antidote is an Ice Age.
You know, it's just shocking.
"We're Police Officers!
We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!"
(A film that was prophetic in so many ways.)
“Say it ain’t so!!”
Don’t worry. When these immigrants are done, all of Europe will resemble Afghanistan.
Maybe they should wise up and deport them all.
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This is probably the largest army to gather outside the walls of this castle in its 500 year history. This is what happen during invasions.
They have brought this tragedy on them selves. I want to feel sorry for them but its too late for Europe. They are toast.
And yet, Merkel got reelected.
The unintended consequence of allowing these migrants into these countries to get cheap labor will be economic upheaval. That economic consequence will offset whatever advantage they expected to get with the cheap labor. Fools!
When the tourist stay away the dominoes will fall.
The men that carry the genes that could have put an end to this were lost on the Eastern Front and the Somme.
The French lost them in WW1
Same with the Brits.
Shocking indicates both bad and surprising. It is bad. It is not surprising.
When you import something you get the thing that you import.
That is the fact, and the peril, inherent to globalist immigration policies.
I expected diversity to bring nothing but rainbows and unicorns, so I am shocked too. Who would have guessed that diversity would not turn out to be a strength and that guests who are supported on welfare would not shower love on their hosts? Those are the only things that Hillary, Jeb, Romney, Barack the First, Pelosi, Reid, and Soros all agree on. How could they be so wrong about a thousand diverse youths all at once? I wish someone had warned us:
Okay,I give up,what film?
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start killing them, deporting they may seek back in
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