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.
“1,000 youths” is not a “group”. It is a mob on stereoids, or a small army.
This is why English is a superior language with which to succinctly describe things.
BTW, do these "youth/migrants" have the weapons to defend themselves?
Not as a percentage of male population. What the Soviet Union lost initially was the entire officer corps that was purged
“That economic consequence will offset whatever advantage they expected to get with the cheap labor.”
Your post should be enshrined in a monument to understatement. It is equivalent to saying that spending your entire net worth on crack cocaine AND SMOKING IT ALL is not the single best way to become a billionaire.
“When you import something you get the thing that you import.”
It is astounding that some people can manage NOT to understand that!
You let criminals in and you are shocked that criminals are committing crimes??? Morons...
“Now all restaurants are Taco Bell”.
I like both solutions!
A sure sign of tribalism, which leads one to suspect . . . (rhetorical).
It really is an entertaining movie.
Some good laughs but they make fun of the PC types
(since it takes place in the future, most people are PC).
We’re seeing more of them in Canada as well. Hearing more German, Dutch and continental French being spoken here.
South America is also a Euro-diaspora destination. It’s got its problems, but not THAT kind of problem yet.
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