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Riots in a former focus area in Dietzenbach surprise local residents, the police and politicians.
The video is shocking: a blazing fire, calls from emergency services – and suddenly popping noises from stones that are thrown at the fire engines. One of the caretakers of the high-rise buildings in the so-called Spessart district in Dietzenbach has it on his cell phone, showing the FR reporter what happened in front of his eyes during the night from Thursday to Friday: police officers and firefighters were ambushed into the large residential complex and two were ambushed Attacked for hours.
The next day: smell of smoke between the five desolate skyscrapers, in which a total of around 5000 people live, a charred excavator on the roadside. The rioters from Dietzenbach * had set fire to him around midnight and set fires almost simultaneously. Remnants of extinguishing foam can still be seen on a large orange waste container behind one of the high-rise buildings. “The bulky waste stored in it burned up to the 10th floor,” says Marcel Haufschild of the Rosenpark real estate management – this is what the former focus district in the eastern Spessart district has been called for several years. Once, in July 2005, there was rioting, young people attacked the police and fire brigade, burned cars and garbage cans, and Dietzenbach was in the media for days.
Haufschild points to the wall of the house: “Look, it’s charred, and the windows on the third floor have burst from the heat.” Then he points to scorched earth on the corner of the huge parking deck that is laid out behind the high-rise buildings. “The night before yesterday it was already burning around midnight. That’s when it started. ”He is afraid that it will also burn in the coming nights.
A view from the parking deck, which attacked the rescue workers, at the metal container that burned.
© Michael Schick
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From the parking deck, the around 50 attackers had thrown incendiaries and stones at the emergency personnel during the night from Thursday to Friday, says Haufschild. Stones that are very easy to organize there: the S-Bahn runs a few meters further, loose stones lie in masses to the right and left of the railroad tracks. Stairs lead from the parking deck to the rails.
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Comment on the attack: Helpless calls for severe punishments in Dietzenbach
The fire department was alerted to a small fire at midnight, city fire inspector Michael Plahusch said. “Burning excavator”, it was said. When the first fire fighting started, some stones were hit on the fire truck. Moving forces were then “received with stones”. After all, the police were there in large numbers to cover the firefighters with their protective shields.
Riots in Dietzenbach: garbage cans and containers burn
One of the caretakers saw how about ten teenagers “tinkered” between the cars, as he puts it. “They put gasoline in bottles with which they threw,” he says. He knows the attackers: “The boys are normal during the day, they are drunk and stoned in the evening.” He points to a wastebasket on the lawn between two skyscrapers: “It burned tonight. I got two cans of water and extinguished the fire. ”He started the big fire in the orange bulky waste container with a fire extinguisher, but was unable to do anything about it.
The night before, two garbage cans had burned here, an old couch and a scooter. The police had already been thrown at stones there, “but it was worse tonight.”
The dumpster that burned.
© Michael Schick
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The fear was now wasting in the skyscrapers. “At least 50 people know exactly who that was, but nobody wants to say anything.” The caretaker understood this. “My car is on fire today, my apartment tomorrow, my wife the day after tomorrow.”
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One can no longer feel safe, says Haufschild, and reports that some of them are being thrown with potatoes. Security services that he wanted to hire to guard the high-rise buildings had canceled after the nightly incidents, and one of the caretakers immediately fired him. “We had a long rest, now the volcano has exploded again.”
He suspects a connection with the arrest of some young people on the Lohrer Weg a few days ago. “They were thrown on the floor by the police,” he says, and asks for more police presence in the next breath. “Four cars are on patrol in a city with a population of 30,000”. That was not enough. But it is also important to offer the youth in the district more alternatives. There are 50 to 100 young people here who “come from all corners”. The “youthful street pharmacy” opens at ten in the evening. “Everyone knows and gets their drugs.”
Dietzenbach: “There was police, fire brigade and a helicopter everywhere”
One of the residents has already discovered explosive doodles on the glass panes of the emergency exit stairwells. “Someone wrote down the prices for all sorts of drugs,” he says. The property management company removed that, but the drug prices were nevertheless “reappeared two or three times”.
A resident who is just coming along describes her nightly impressions: “According to the son of a bitch, there was a call from the whore, there were black clouds of smoke because the excavator was on fire, and then the police, fire brigade and a helicopter were everywhere.” By 5 am, she had none Eye closed. “If you stay out of everything, everything is fine,” she says.
Constituency member Ismail Tipi hurried to the scene in the morning. “This is not typical for Dietzenbach, it can and will happen anywhere in Germany,” he says. Nevertheless, the nightly incidents are anything but a trivial offense, and must be condemned in the hardest way. “Anyone who attacks the police and rescue teams is attacking our society.” The police are doing a very good job, especially in Dietzenbach, and are also doing voluntary work. The city has a very high culture of welcome, here people love and strangers. “The Dietzenbachers will now stick together even more, will weld together”, he is certain.
Riots in Dietzenbach: Mayor speaks of “serious breach of peace”
Notes requested
The police are asking witnesses to help investigate the nighttime attacks. The police headquarters in Southeast Hesse has set up a notification server. Under the link https://polizei-hinweise.de/wurf video recordings, images or other observed observations can be transmitted. The criminal police will receive telephone information at 069 8098-1234.
The police headquarters in southeastern Hesse will be supported by riot police officers over the weekend. You will be increasingly present in the Dietzenbach area. ann
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“The incidents in the large residential complex have not started for us,” Mayor Jürgen Rogg (independent) explains in a press conference. He speaks of “serious breach of the peace”, but no one knows yet about the motive. For over a decade, there have been educational programs, neighborhood managers and street workers for the Spessartviertel, and crime has been declining there for years, says Social Affairs Director Dieter Lang (SPD). People from more than 80 nations would live here peacefully and with mutual respect. “I will not allow this work to be destroyed.” Hüsamettin Eryilmaz, chairman of the district foreigners’ advisory board, asks the public not to expose the majority of the residents of the Spessart district to blanket prejudice and accusation.
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A separate working group in the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse in Offenbach is to deal with the events of Friday night. There is great concern that crime will increase again in the Spessart district. Efforts to restore conditions like in 2005 are now to be “nipped in the bud,” said a police spokesman. Therefore, the presence in Dietzenbach will be “significantly increased” in the coming days. (with fab)
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