Frankfurt unrest leaves arrests, injuries and damaged shops

A German broadcaster's extended coverage describes attacks on police after youth protests, with incidents also reported in Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.

Channel: WELT Nachrichtensender ·

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Arrests and injuries form the aftermath of a night of unrest in Frankfurt, where shops were looted and police came under attack, according to Germany's WELT Nachrichtensender.

The broadcaster describes young men smashing storefront windows and Molotov cocktails being thrown toward officers. Its broadcast title reports that one police officer lost teeth after being struck by a stone.

The channel says the initiatives "Gen Z regelt" and "Generation Aufbruch" had called for protests in Frankfurt and other German cities before the evening descended into violence. Those calls to demonstrate do not, by themselves, establish who carried out the attacks and looting.

Frankfurt, on the River Main in the state of Hesse, is a major European financial center. The broadcaster compares the severity of the disorder there with the city's Blockupy unrest in 2015. It also reports disturbances in Cologne and incidents in Hamburg and Berlin, while describing Frankfurt as the worst affected of those cities.