A riot in Stuttgart with casualties and looting
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Date: 08:23 PM | Reading Time: 2 Minutes
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Source: dpa/Christoph Schmidt
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The smashed-in window, with flying paving-stones and looting: In the night of Sunday, dozens of small groups to deliver in the city centre of Stuttgart street battles with the police.
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Begg street battles with the police in the night of Sunday, dozens of violent small groups ravaged the Stuttgart city centre and a number of officials injured. “The Situation is completely out of control,” said a police spokesman early on Sunday in Stuttgart.
After several hours the Situation calmed down in the Morning. Forces from the entire province had been summoned to the capital to get the situation under control.
In the Short Message Service Twitter circulating video recordings of young men, came against the window panes of shops or paving stones out of the ground cracks. The police spokesman said: “It was really on a rampage.”
A number of shops were affected, in addition to vehicles. There had also been looting. Focus areas of the castle were square and the adjacent king street, which is known as Stuttgart’s Shopping mile.
Also police officers were injured
About the background of the dispute and the exact number of the rioters, nothing was known. The police said several hundred people were in small groups, on-the-go. It got injured, also among police officers, given. Of serious injury, the speaker knew nothing. How many people were arrested, was also initially unclear.
The riots would have started around midnight, said the police spokesman. 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.
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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 city centre, a presence, said the police spokesman in the Morning.
Also last week it was to come clashes of predominantly young people with the police – but not to the extent as now. The police are not expressed initially as to whether the mastermind of the recent destruction of the police are attributable to well-known scenes.
– –Source: dpa/Christoph Schmidt
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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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