{"id":288313,"date":"2017-01-03T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-1000-man-mob-attack-police-set-germanys-oldest-church-alight-on-new-years-eve\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:31:57","slug":"germany-1000-man-mob-attack-police-set-germanys-oldest-church-alight-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-1000-man-mob-attack-police-set-germanys-oldest-church-alight-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: 1,000-Man Mob Attack Police, Set Germany\u2019s Oldest Church Alight on New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>At New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations in Dortmund a mob of more than 1,000 men chanted \u2018Allahu Akhbar\u2019, launched fireworks at police, and set fire to a historic church.<\/p>\n<p>Already by 7 pm a man was hospitalised with first-degree burns to his face and hands after fireworks were hurled at a group of homeless people outside the city\u2019s main train station. More than two dozen people were injured at festivities in Dortmund, some seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The events of the night were <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.wdr.de\/nachrichten\/ruhrgebiet\/silvester-dortmund-100.html\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> as \u201cquiet\u201d by police in a statement, and as \u201cnormal\u201d by a spokesman for the city government.<\/p>\n<p>But at 11:30pm\u00a0police announced they were adding to their already much larger than usual presence in the city centre for New Year, sending in further reinforcements of officers.<\/p>\n<p>This came after the force reported there being a \u201clarge number of young men from North Africa\u201d in town, with federal police officer Volker Stall noting there was an \u201caggressive mood\u201d towards the public and police.<\/p>\n<p>At midnight, the situation threatened to escalate. A livewire published by the <em>Ruhr Nachrichten<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruhrnachrichten.de\/staedte\/dortmund\/44137-Dortmund%7E\/Silvester-Boellerverbote-und-Platzverweise-Die-Lage-in-Dortmund;art930,3185532\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that a crowd of \u201cat least 1,000 young men\u201d began throwing fireworks into crowds of visitors, which also included families with children. Asked by officers to stop, the mob turned to pelt fireworks at police instead.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the prohibition of lighting pyrotechnics near churches, firemen had to intervene after fireworks were launched at St Reinolds, Germany\u2019s oldest church, setting the roof alight.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/germany-1-000-man-mob-attack-police-set-germany-s-oldest-church-alight-on-new-year-s-eve\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations in Dortmund a mob of more than 1,000 men chanted \u2018Allahu Akhbar\u2019, launched fireworks at police, and set fire to a historic church. Already by 7 pm a man was hospitalised with first-degree burns to his face and hands after fireworks were hurled at a group of homeless people outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}