Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) - Thousands of fans in Frankfurt celebrated the surprise victory of the Moroccan team in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar. "Up to 4,000 people were there at the top," said a police spokesman on Saturday evening. Occasionally fireworks were set off. "But everything remained peaceful."
Also in Darmstadt and Rüsselsheim there were spontaneous meetings of fans of the Moroccan team, as the police headquarters in southern Hesse announced. In Darmstadt, around 500 people celebrated on the streets and with motorcades. Around 700 people met in Rüsselsheim. Firecrackers were thrown and pyrotechnics ignited. No one was injured, police said.
