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Looters chant 'Allahu Akbar' during Stuttgart's worst ever riots that turned the city into 'a battlefield' - as police reveal those involved were 'mainly young people with a migration background'
2020-06-23
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Up to 500 rioters attacked police with stones and bottles after a white German teenager was arrested for a drugs offence

  • 12 foreign nationals and three Germans of 'migrant background' were among the 24 arrested, police announced yesterday

  • Police say there was no sign of a political motivation, blaming alcohol and the 'party scene' for the outbreak of violence

  • 19 police officers were hurt, 40 shops were attacked, 12 police vehicles were damaged, some of them so badly that they had to be taken out of service

  • Angela Merkel today condemned the violence as 'abhorrent' and said rioters had 'turned against their city'

From An Nahar, added after the midnight rollover for future reference:
Asked about the nationalities of the 12 non-Germans who were detailed, Stuttgart deputy police chief Thomas Berger said they stemmed from a range of countries from Croatia and Portugal to Afghanistan and Somalia.
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  Not as far as I can tell from Deutsche Welle and other English language sources,...
A Deutsche Welle report doesn’t even say that much

Interesting. Thanks, tw. Funny how analyzing the news now depends on looking for what is not said. Like inverse traffic analysis. Or the dog that didn't bark.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-06-23 22:26  

#10  YES germania built this.
Posted by: ranture   2020-06-23 11:45  

#9   that the actual German might be closer Arabischer Schweinehund

Not as far as I can tell from Deutsche Welle and other English language sources, SteveS. For the most part migrant background is as much information as is shared, and that is used to include East Europeans. A Deutsche Welle report doesn’t even say that much — were it not for the names, one would have no idea they weren’t all blond, blue eyed Teutons. Link.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-06-23 10:31  

#8  Allahu Snackbar? Damn, now we will never know what their motives were.

I do like the circumlocution of "migrant background", though. Usually the Germans are a bit more down to earth. Of course, we should note this is being passed thru the Daily Mail journalism filter and that the actual German might be closer Arabischer Schweinehund
Posted by: SteveS   2020-06-23 10:02  

#7  I'm sure the 'authorities' are more worried about "right wing" extremists. Don't they always? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-06-23 07:47  

#6  'turned against their city'

It's supposed to be (your) city. They want it to be their city, and country. You gonna let 'em have it?
Posted by: AlanC   2020-06-23 07:37  

#5  /\ Indeed! They will sometimes differentiate by using the term "Deutsche(r)" or "Staatsangehörige(r) ("citizen").
Posted by: Clem   2020-06-23 07:14  

#4  "three Germans of 'migrant background'"

Germans in passport only.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-06-23 06:58  

#3  Vielen Dank, Angi. Das hast Du verdient (you deserved that).
Posted by: Clem   2020-06-23 06:36  

#2  At what point does mob rule become unacceptable? Well we are clearly not there yet.
Posted by: Dacama    2020-06-23 06:01  

#1  In the 2019 municipal elections a clear majority voted pro-Merkel.

Votes have consequences.

No sympathy.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2020-06-23 04:53  

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