This AM...fair amount of chatter out of Gelsenkirchen (far NW of Germany)....over a riot/brawl....between soccer fans...after midnight last night.
What the cops say? Couple hundred fans were out....probably drinking heavy....Schalke fans. They were supposed to be arriving at the train station at 6 AM....for a train that would take them over to Berlin for the Sunday afternoon Shalke-Union Berlin game.
There in the middle of morning hours....around 150 hooligans appeared (with baseball bats). Cops say (marginal evidence so far) that they were people from the Rot-Weiss-Essen and Borussia Dortmund Saturday game.
The term 'mass brawl' is used....fair amount of injuries.
Any arrests? Well....no. What they say....as quick as this started up....it ended in a matter of minutes, before the police arrive.
On serious injuries....it sounds like five to six are in this category and maybe thirty to forty are somewhat injured.
An unusual thing? Well...typically, hooligan activities occur before or after a game, and your team is the playing in the region. This is rare that fans appeared from a secondary game, and were prepared for violent activity.
But it goes back to my caution (often used).....you ought to be home safely, by midnight and not go testing the safety factor of German cities today.
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