Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The police in North Rhine-Westphalia had to move out 24 times in the first half of 2022 because of so-called tumult situations. This emerges from a response published on Monday by the Düsseldorf Ministry of the Interior to a request from the AfD parliamentary group.
Compared to the first half of 2021, where 22 riots were recorded, there are initially no significant changes. In a total of seven cases from all of 2021 - with 35 riots - and the first half of 2022, references to clan crime were found, the Interior Ministry reported.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, a riot is "a police situation that is caused by or from a group of people who appear aggressively and in which the number of people, their role or the status of individual people cannot be determined immediately when they first intervene". This includes mass brawls.
Riots have been systematically recorded in NRW since the beginning of 2018 - at that time there were even 179 cases. 93 cases were registered in 2019 and 67 the year after. For the current year, it should be noted that some criminal proceedings are still being processed and that changes in the data could result, the Ministry of the Interior announced.
The AfD parliamentary group also wanted to know the nationality of those involved in the riots. According to statistics from the Interior Ministry for the years 2021 and 2022, German citizenship was by far the most frequently mentioned with 147 entries - including multiple entries. Only in every tenth case were the participants female.
