China News Service, June 22, according to Agence France-Presse, a spokesman for German Chancellor Merkel said on the 22nd local time that Merkel strongly condemned the Stuttgart riots, saying that the brutal attack on the police and the robbery of the store were "abominable" ".
Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, suffered serious riots from the evening of the 20th to the early hours of the 21st. Hundreds of people beat and robbed in the downtown business district and clashed with the police. 19 policemen were injured.
The police said that preliminary investigations revealed that the riot caused nightclub customers and good people to provoke a conflict without political motivation. The Stuttgart City Police Department has set up a special task force and collected video materials from the scene to arrest the suspects.