Like in Tel Aviv: An event held by supporters of the Eritrean regime in the city of Stuttgart, in southern Germany, turned into the scene of a violent confrontation between the participants and dissidents who came to blow up the event.
According to local police, some 200 dissidents began attacking participants and police guarding the event with stones, bottles and wooden sticks. Several of the attackers were arrested. At least ten people were injured.
Eritrean rioters in Tel Aviv, photo: EPA
Eyewitnesses said the scenes they were exposed to looked "like a war." The local police received advance information about the intention of the regime's opponents to attack the event, called the Eritrea Festival. Therefore, reinforced police forces were deployed. Among other things, police helicopters were used to monitor the movement of the rioters. Despite the violence, the festival continued according to the decision of the organizers.
Similar incidents yesterday in Lübeck and July in Giessen also ended in violent clashes. In Giessen, 26 policemen were injured.
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