Hours later, 1,500 black-clad anarchists rampaged through the streets of the city’s Schanzen district, plundering shops and setting fire to cars and trash cans for several hours, the police said. An elite unit of special forces was called in to quell the violence, but only after extensive damage had been done.
The New York Times, “Violence Erupts at Hamburg Protests: ‘Everybody Went Totally Mad’”
