More than 100 police officers injured in Frankfurt riots

More than 100 police officers were injured during riots in Frankfurt on Saturday night, including one who was seriously hurt, Hesse’s interior minister Roman Poseck said. The violence followed demonstrations and was accompanied by arrests and damage to shops.

Poseck said the seriously injured officer lost teeth after a stone was thrown at his face. Police arrested 54 people aged between 13 and 29. Seventeen shops were damaged and five were looted, including stores on Zeil, Frankfurt’s main shopping street.

The minister said police estimated that about 1,500 people took part in the rioting. He said there was no indication that people had travelled from abroad to join the violence, but that only a small proportion of those involved came from Frankfurt itself.

Frankfurt was among several German cities where demonstrations on Saturday evening turned violent. Damage and attacks on officers were also reported in Cologne and Berlin.