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About 50 German teenagers rioted as they attempted to free a 15-year-old reveller from police custody after he disrupted a school-leavers’ party, police in Bavaria have said. Fifty school-leavers in Germany had to be restrained by police on Thursday night after they stormed a police station in an attempt to free a friend.
The police said only a large-scale show of force restored order after the teenagers threw bottles at the windows of the police station in Starnberg, near Munich, and tried to break open the entrance door late on Thursday. The 15-year-old boy had been placed in a cell after he was aggressive towards police who arrested him after an end-of-term party in the Bavarian lakeside town of Starnberg turned violent. The teenager had previously asked a security guard for drugs and had gone on the rampage.
A window was broken and officers from neighbouring towns were called in to help restore order. The young people threw glass bottles and stones at the police station, breaking a cell window, during their attempt to free their friend.
“Only through a massive deployment … could the situation on site be brought under control,” said a statement from Bavarian police. One school-leaver kicked an officer, narrowly missing his head, according to a police spokesman. Others tried to break down the door of the police station. The pupils apologised to the police in a letter on Friday, stating: “The escalation ... was never our aim.”
Three teenagers were arrested and charged with attempting to free a prisoner and damage to property. The incident made headlines across Germany, with national media emphasising surprise that it had happened in a town that is home to some of Germany’s richest citizens. Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said: “The happenings in Starnberg are absolutely out of the question. Parties and alcohol are no excuses for such behaviour.”
Events escalated after police were called to a disturbance at a party in the affluent rural town on Thursday night. Herrmann urged the pupils involved to do work experience at the local police station “to recognise what it means (for the police) on a 24-hour basis to look reality in the face and deploy security and order for our benefit”.
A 15-year-old, who appeared drunk, “provoked and insulted” officers in “an aggressive manner” and refused to leave. After the boy was taken into custody, a group of teenagers left the party and tried to storm the police station.
Police are considering charges of breach of the peace.
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