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Diving tower in the Olympiastadion summer pool
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In the Olympic pool in Charlottenburg, there was a presumably planned riot around 7 p.m. on Sunday evening: As a spokesman for the pool operations said, a group of around 50 young people stormed the diving tower in the evening.
The police had to be alerted and the pool was closed.
The riot may have been planned and started by a flash mob, according to the police.
It all seemed very sudden and very controlled, the spokesman said.
The outdoor pool was already a bit empty at this time.
How many police officers were deployed and whether there were arrests was initially unclear.
In the Neukölln Columbiabad, the ticket office was broken into on Monday night.
The burglars apparently tried to break into a safe, but they were unsuccessful, the police spokesman said.
However, they caused serious damage that had to be repaired on Monday, so that the bath could only open later.
In the course of the summer, three major incidents in which the police had to intervene in outdoor pools became known.
In the Bad am Insulaner in Steglitz and in the Neukölln Columbiabad, violent riots had arisen from minor quarrels between young people and young men.
Security guards had to intervene, and eventually a larger police force arrived.
Many rioters are known, but the house ban issued can hardly be checked at the entrance.
Around 170 security guards from private security companies are on duty in Berlin's outdoor pools on hot weekends.
The baths spend 1.5 million euros on this every year.
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