The four juveniles, three 16-year-olds and one 15-year-old are said to be from Afghanistan and had been living in the children’s home “because their guardians are not domesticated”.
Initial statements claim the migrants were “dissatisfied with their accommodation situation” at Falkenfels so decided to destroy the migrant reception centre, resulting in damages worth €20 000. The centre has also become entirely uninhabitable for other guests.
Because the entire inventory at the accommodation centre has been destroyed, the inhabitants had to be placed at other reception centres by staff responsible for the youth welfare office.
Several police patrols were dispatched to the site and they arrested one of the 16-year-old rioters at the scene. As part of the police search, the 16-year-old rioter was found hiding in his room and arrested.
The three others fled into nearby woods, smashing the windscreen of a police car which was parked outside of the centre. All three were later caught and arrested in the adjacent forest.
The rioters were taken into police custody overnight. After consultation with the public prosecutor’s office in Regensburg, they were released from custody after completing the police questionnaire.
Over the summer, migrants in Greece set fire to refugee camp after being denied asylum.
Volunteers working at the camp at the time told Sky News that migrants were angry because their “cases are not being processed fast enough” and were “furious” that they will be deported after their claims fail.
The Federal Working Group for Homelessness [Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnungslosenhilfe (BAG W)] meanwhile has announced that there are around 860 000 homeless people currently living in Germany, up more than 150 percent since 2014.
According to the data, 440 000 of those are migrants who came to Germany after Angela Merkel opened the country’s borders.
The numbers living on the streets are up by a third since 2014 as well, with 52 000 people sleeping rough.
“Immigration has dramatically worsened the overall situation,” said the group’s boss Thomas Specht. “But is by no means the sole cause of the new housing shortage.” Specht also says that without “massive efforts” from the authorities, the number people without a home will increase to 1.2 million by the end of 2018.
The group claim that federal and local governments share a portion of the blame for the crisis for selling off affordable housing to private investors, reducing the stock of housing normally reserved for rising demand.
Some 70 percent of the homeless are single, while 30 percent live together with children or one partner. In addition, according to statistics, there are more than 30 000 minors living without accommodation.