Pretty Wild Regional Event

 My regional public TV guys reported this incident, and it's likely going to get more attention.

For folks who aren't aware of it....there  are a fair number of migrants who've settled into Germany from Eritrea (the nation that sits between the Sudan and Saudi Arabia).  

Why leave Eritrea?  Well....the general discussion goes to a authoritarian government.  It is a single-party government.....probably for almost thirty years.  Adding to this....there's at least ten different 'governments-in-exile'....each claiming their party/group....represents the people.  Some people believe that some of these groups (in exile) are really agent-provocateur-parties....meaning they work for the government.  

So, here in the Giessen area of Germany, there are a number of Eritrean people who've settled into the area.  The Giessen German folks felt it'd be nice to have a fest and give recognition to new migrants.  

The fest opened up on Saturday, and an attack started up with some Eritrean folks showing up...with knives, iron bars and batons....to attack those in attendance.  Cops soon arrived, and the attackers responded onto them with rocks.

Several of the attack-folks ended up arrested, and the fest itself....cancelled by the police.

The basic story?  The governments-in-exile (who may be 'clean' or may be agent-provocateur groups)....have gone to court to have the fest shut down...claiming it's (the fest itself) is manipulated or run by the dictatorship back in Eritrea itself.

Do the German culture folks grasp all of this?  I doubt it.

Do the German cops grasp it?  Yes, and they are probably shaking their head because you have too many folks BSing the general public and the Erirean community itself.  

I think if you laid this out to the typical German....they'd start to look around and ask about other migrant groups, and if there were agent-provocateur groups for them as well.  It might be a frightening thing to realize.