
After predominantly peaceful demonstrations, violent riots and looting broke out in Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.
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Youth protests took place across Germany on Saturday, with 120,000 participants according to organizers and 65,000 participants according to police.
According to the organizers, around 120,000 young people across Germany were on the streets on Saturday, mostly peacefully; according to police figures, there were more than 65,000. On Saturday evening, the protests, like in Frankfurt am Main, sometimes resulted in serious riots. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown there, rioters destroyed shop windows and there was looting. More than 100 police officers were injured. After mostly peaceful demonstrations by thousands of young people, there were also riots and clashes with the police in Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin, but not as violently as in the banking metropolis.
According to Hesse's Interior Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) and Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), the group of perpetrators was "predominantly migrant." Education Minister Karin Prien (CDU) condemned the riots, but wants to expressly address important issues raised by young people: “The concerns of young people are justified and extremely relevant.”
According to the police, five shops were looted and 17 were damaged, says SZ correspondent Kathrin Wiesel-Lancé. 54 people between the ages of 13 and 29 were arrested, mostly with German citizenship, but actually with migrant origins. For Wiesel-Lancé, this is a vague term: “What does a migration background mean or not?”
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