Only a large contingent of police could calm down the situation in the town in Bavaria, located 32 kilometres west of Munich, reported the police headquarters in Oberbayern Nord.
At first, there had been a dispute between a Nigerian asylum seeker and a security company employee. While the alarmed police officers took up the incident, another conflict between the affected family from Nigeria and security staff erupted.
When the 22-year-old African woman was arrested for her aggressive behavior, around 100 asylum seekers showed solidarity with her and the crowd began attacking the police, rescue workers and the security service.
Asylum seekers triggered the fire alarm a hundred times in protest against the actions of the officials.
Law enforcement officers were eventually deployed in great numbers in the shelter until after midnight, and the situation was brought under control. The Nigerian woman and her family were then brought to the Munich arrival centre.
In the riots, according to police, windows and doors were broken. The damage to the facility is estimated at 10 000 euros.
Investigations were initiated, inter alia, for dangerous bodily injury, threats, property damage and abuse of emergency calls.
Earlier this year, a group of migrants mainly from Africa had mobbed police patrol cars and damaged the vehicles when they wanted to deport an illegal migrant, the Stuttgarter Zeitung (SZ) reported.
The migrants held a security officer from the refugee shelter hostage in the Baden-Württemberg town of Ellwangen to act as an intermediary and gave the police an ultimatum: take the Togolese man’s handcuffs off within two minutes, otherwise they would storm the entrance gate of the accommodation.
The police then gave the security officer a key so that he could release the 23-year-old from his handcuffs.