{"id":45582,"date":"2026-03-22T04:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/45582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:40:26","slug":"police-officers-attacked-in-berlin-as-school-leavers-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/45582\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officers attacked in Berlin as school leavers celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Open-air parties attended by hundreds of Berlin school leavers escalated with attacks on police officers, authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since Monday, the German capital has seen daily celebrations in some parks, leaving behind large piles of rubbish and broken glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the final week of school before exams, known in Germany as &#8220;Abitur,&#8221; pupils at many schools organize themed weeks with different costumes each day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Up to 1,000 young people gathered near the Planetarium in the trendy neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg on Friday, with police reporting loud music and littering with empty bottles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After police spoke to the revellers, bottles were thrown and firecrackers set off, leading officers to clear the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Five youngsters were held on suspicion of breach of the peace and assault. In total, 15 cases of grievous bodily harm, damage to property and pickpocketing were investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the western Sch\u00f6neberg district, police officers were attacked after around 600 youths gathered at the Rathaus Sch\u00f6neberg underground station at around 9 pm (2000 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The B.Z. newspaper reported that the gatherings had been advertised online as an \u201cflash mob.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open-air parties attended by hundreds of Berlin school leavers escalated with attacks on police officers, authorities said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,9001,190,25891,25892,6010,25890],"class_list":{"0":"post-45582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-german-capital","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-police-officers","12":"tag-police-van","13":"tag-prenzlauer-berg","14":"tag-school-leavers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116270990967566240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}