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reRestrictions on the freedom of young people due to the Corona regulation were not the cause of the violent riots in the center of Stuttgart on the night of June 20-21. This is the result of the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) and the Minister of the Interior, Thomas Strobl (CDU), after evaluating an investigation report of the special commission on which the government of the green state debated on Tuesday -black. In June, immediately after the night of the riots, the police and some politicians blamed an alleged “party crowd” for the riots.
About three months later, the police identified 88 suspects involved in the riot. In addition, five people were identified who allegedly committed acts of tracking, for example, theft. Two-thirds of the suspects are German citizens, three-quarters of them come from immigrant families.
The thirty suspects without German citizenship come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Poland, Croatia, Portugal, Latvia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Morocco, Kosovo, Nigeria, Syria, Turkey, Romania, Serbia and Tunisia. Afghans and Iraqis are overrepresented. Among the suspects are a 13-year-old Syrian refugee and a 29-year-old German apprentice. At least four suspects are tolerated and must leave the country. 45 arrest warrants were requested from the judge. Charges have already been filed in five cases; the first criminal case against one of the main culprits will begin in October.
The fact that restrictions related to the pandemic, such as club closures, were not the cause of the unrest, can be seen in the fact that 72 percent of the identified suspects had previously been detected for criminal offenses, he said. Strobl. He gave an example of two biographies of perpetrators: A man said to have looted a store and stole smartphones during the night of the riot in June raped a defenseless, drug-addicted woman in October 2019. Another suspect had committed a robbery in a store months before the start of the pandemic and then threatened the department store detective with a knife. “These are two examples that give you an impression of which perpetrators are involved,” Strobl said. The minister described the riots in the Stuttgart palace gardens and in the city center as “a confused riot”, the suspects were not organized. “It was a very heterogeneous group. Many are male and very young. There are people from Stuttgart who are doing an apprenticeship, but also refugees ”. In the future, Strobl wants to equip the police with analysis software. During the investigation an amount of data was collected corresponding to around 750 million A4 sheets. For example, to search for an alleged perpetrator in a yellow shirt, you need modern software to analyze the videos.
According to the police, the security situation in central Stuttgart is said to have improved significantly: the palace garden is better lit with a temporary lighting system, and the police regularly break up drunken youth gatherings on weekends.
