Up to 800 violent people in Frankfurt: aggressive mob attacks police | Regional

Frankfurt – Bottles, stones, eggs flew away: again, police officers were attacked on the Zeil shopping street in Frankfurt. Several hundred people.

At around 10:45 p.m. Saturday night, a patrol crossed the shopping street. Suddenly and without cause or warning, the car was attacked.

The patrol continued to the Hauptwache (Zeil subway station), where the attacks and egg-dropping continued. According to the police, the aggressive crowd grew to 800 people.

With massive reinforcements, the agents finally brought the situation under control and arrested nine people. Eight of them were released overnight for lack of reasons for their arrest. A 17-year-old with a relevant prior infraction must be brought before the judge on Sunday.

First attack on Friday

Already on Friday, around 25 young people attacked a patrol in the Zeil. He wanted to end a fight between two men. When one of the two was taken away for personal identification, the group attacked. The bat also broke loose, presumably spraying pepper in the direction of an officer (24), but did not hit her. His colleague (27) was injured by a beating.

The agents fled in the company car, they wanted to leave; then the briefly stopped man in the red jacket blatantly hung up on the Opel’s exterior mirror. When reinforcements finally arrived, he and the rest of the chaos had disappeared. Meanwhile, the 18-year-old has also been identified thanks to video recordings.

“We are on people’s feet all the time”

Police spokesman Alexander Kießling suspects that the crown restrictions are one of the causes of the increase in aggression against police officers: “People lack valves like clubs or visits to stadiums. And then we stand all the time: you are not allowed to do this, you are not allowed to do this. “

Many would also lack common sense: “The focus is only on one’s own enjoyment, what happens to others does not matter.” That is why he sees the judiciary called to act faster and more strictly when it comes to such acts: “Only with difficult origins and Everything in the situation of life cannot be excused.”

Chief of Police: “We will not accept it!”

Frankfurt Police Chief Gehard Bereswill: “For me it is unbearable when people spontaneously unite against the police. Our colleagues work daily for the protection and safety of citizens. I condemn in the strongest terms that people come together to attack their colleagues with massive violence and accept that they may be seriously injured!

The angry police chief: “Rest assured, we will not accept this behavior and will take consistent action against it. Now we will do everything possible to identify other perpetrators who, with their behavior, are terrorizing citizens. I assume they will receive a just punishment. “

However, the Zeil hasn’t just been a bad place at night since Corona. In recent years there have been repeated violent clashes between Konstablerwache and Hauptwache (the two squares that delimit the Zeil at the beginning and at the end). In July 2019, for example, police officers were attacked in front of the “Gibson” nightclub and four months later, a 45-year-old man was beaten almost to death in the Constable’s Guard.

Also in Darmstadt-Eberstadt, around 100 youths attacked police officers with firearms. Residents had called the police about the crack at 5 p.m. on Stresemannstrasse. They asked the group over the loudspeakers to refrain from doing this and to meet the corona requirements, because the cracker flew. After reinforcements arrived from across the city, 23 youths were arrested. A process of intrusion was started against him.