When does enough become enough?
According to the Daily Mail:
Authorities claimed they were roving through the streets armed with knives and replica handguns, firing flares and teargas.
Several police cars were sprayed with graffiti in the small town also dubbed ‘Daimler city’ because automotive inventor Gottlieb Daimler was born there in 1834.
The violence escalated when one of the suspects resisted arrest.
Schorndorf is not a particularly large town, with the population sitting at 40,000, the town’s police has to call in backup from nearby cities. It was reported that a crowd of more than 1,000 people began to hurl bottles at police.
Riots break out at German festival after claims of sexually harassment
The incidents occurred at Volksfest in Schorndorf, Baden-Wuerttemberg state A 20-year-old Iraqi man and three Afghan asylum seekers treated as suspects The Afghan men, aged 18 to 20, said to be accused of groping a 17-year-old girl Crowd of more than 1,000 people reported to have hurled bottles at riot police A German folk festival descended into violence after Iraqi and Afghan asylum seekers were accused of sexually harassing local women, it has been reported.