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| Police stoned as Frankfurt flash mob descends into chaos |
| 2019-03-25 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A flash mob gathering in central Frankfurt descended into chaos with teenagers hurling stones at coppers, German authorities said Sunday. A group of 600 youths had gathered on Saturday evening at the popular shopping street Zeil which they began running through "without any consideration for pedestrians," police said in a statement. Police then issued the flash mob organizer with a dispersal notice, but an officer was then suddenly punched in the face by a 17-year-old youth. As officers detained the teen, some among the crowd began throwing stones at police. Three officers were hit, with one suffering light injuries. The other two were unscathed. The gathering was finally cleared two hours after it began. Investigations were now ongoing on the background of the flash mob, police said. Authorities were also examining if organizers could be liable to take on the costs of the ensuing police operation. The flash mob chaos in Frankfurt came just days after a mass brawl in central Berlin between followers of two social media stars. Nine arrests were made as a fight broke out on the Alexanderplatz late Thursday among 400 backers of two rival YouTubers. Police said it took around 100 officers, two of whom were maimed, to break up the fight. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 … They'll stone you when you're trying to go home And they'll stone you when you're there all alone But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned… |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-03-25 13:16 |
| #8 Other articles also let you do the work of guessing they were german in documentation only. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-25 12:09 |
| #7 If I had to guess, it's feral Turks. Wasn't a difficult guess, now was it? |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-03-25 11:54 |
| #6 Hard to tell ethnicity by the lousy camera work panning back and forth so rapidly. Have to say there's not a lot of blonde, Nordic looking folks there. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2019-03-25 11:22 |
| #5 "Swarthiness" abounds |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-25 11:18 |
| #4 YouTube has video here. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-25 11:03 |
| #3 If I had to guess, it's feral Turks. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-03-25 10:07 |
| #2 he article uses a shutterstock photo of pale white kids. Probably not the actual case |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-25 09:09 |
| #1 No word on the ethnicity of the rioters. |
| Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 2019-03-25 07:35 |