According to a report by the Passauer Neue Presse, the attacks were preceded by alcohol consumption. “Apparently the hours of alcohol consumption in the sun had made some of the anchor centre residents aggressive,” the Deggendorfer Zeitung speculated.
Accordingly, many asylum seekers were so drunk that they were no longer able to provide their personal details or identify themselves. A rioter from Nigeria could only be sedated by the use of a stun gun.
According to the report, asylum seekers were sitting on the windowsills on the upper floor of the building, chanting slogans against the police.
The cause of the protests was a visit to the Lower Bavarian district by government officials to inspect the facility. The violent riots were preceded in the morning a sit-in in the vicinity of the Deggendorf central station, which led to traffic chaos.
The visit by representatives offered the inhabitants of the anchor center an opportunity to point out grievances – both in terms of accommodation and political nature. They had gathered in front of the facility next to the train station and had been demonstrating since eleven o’clock in the morning.
According to the police, most of the participants were Azerbaijani and Nigerian. Among other things, the residents demanded to speak with a representative of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
Violent riots in a branch of the facility in June had injured five policemen. Also, the anchor center in Donauwörth has regularly seen violent excesses by the residents making the headlines in the local press.
In February 2018 , asylum seekers in the city brought train traffic to a halt. In November of the same year, the dispute over a breadbun escalated. Two weeks ago, an African smashed several cars there.
On Monday, rioters entered the main road in the area of the Stadtfeldstraße/Herrenstraße several times at short notice, causing traffic disruptions.
The police massed on site with numerous emergency services, including officials from the Bavarian riot police, and were in close contact with the residents, together with representatives from the city and district of Deggendorf and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, the Central Immigration Office and the facility management, an official statement read.
After a detailed discussion with all participants, the demonstration was initially dissolved and the inhabitants returned to their accommodation.
But soon afterwards, a 24-year-old Nigerian, who was not a resident of the Deggendorf centre, became aggressive towards the security service. When officials were called in to help, he resisted them, with one official slightly injured. The Nigerian was eventually arrested.
During the operation, a total of three people had to be treated for injuries.
Police commissioner Stefan Gaisbauer, press secretary of the police headquarters of Lower Bavaria, however told the media earlier that the action had remained without incident and only one woman suffered a circulatory collapse and had to be treated by ambulance workers.
An evangelical pastor from Allgäu was meanwhile sentenced to a fine because he gave church sanctuary to a deportee. The clergyman Ulrich Gampert must pay 4 000 euros, according to a report of the evangelical news agency epd.
A corresponding penalty order from the district court Sonthofen had been delivered to him, confirmed the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran community in Immenstadt.
The reason for the fine is because, for over a year, the pastor of the 14 000-inhabitant city in Bavaria had granted refuge to a rejected asylum seeker Reza Jafari. The 22-year-old Afghan had twice evaded his planned deportation.
The Petitions Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament had decided a six-month suspended deportation after which Jafari left the church.
According to epd, this is the first time that a pastor in Bavaria has been prosecuted for aiding and abetting an unauthorized stay. Until now, such investigations had always been stopped.
The Bavarian church called it “regrettable that the advocacy for refugees, which is for us expression of humanity, is punished”. The contact person for church asylum in Protestant parishes in Bavaria, Susanne Henninger said there are currently 33 cases of church asylum in Bavaria which involved 41 people.
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