https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/clan-fehde-in-castrop-rauxel-sie-schlugen-sich-mit-knueppeln-und-macheten-84352502.bild.html
By: FRANK SCHNEIDER, SEBASTIAN PRENGEL, Bianca Weiner and JUSTIN BROSCH
06/16/2023 - 3:41 p.m
Castrop-Rauxel (NRW) – The feuding extended families attacked each other with battens, clubs, knives and machetes. Even when the first police officers arrived, the opponents kept hitting and kicking each other like crazy!
After the orgy of violence in Castrop-Rauxel, there are now investigations into attempted manslaughter. A homicide squad is on duty.
According to BILD information, around 30 members of a Syrian and a Lebanese extended family were involved in the mass brawl on Thursday evening. The trigger is said to be a dispute that has been smoldering among the children of the families for a long time, and there have been minor arguments again and again in the last few days.
Until the family war finally escalated on Thursday. Initially, the police did not succeed at all in separating the armed men on Wartburgstrasse. Videos of the attacks show terrible hunting scenes, even when men are already lying on the ground, the perpetrators are still mercilessly beating their defenseless victims with wooden slats. Projectiles and bottles fly through the air, the injured lie bleeding on the ground.
More and more emergency services raced to the scene of the crime, due to the particular brutality and weaponry, the special unit BFE of hundreds was alerted, a helicopter circled in the air. From the helicopter, the elite police officers were coordinated in side streets where the conflict had shifted. The police quickly got the situation under control. One of the officers was slightly injured when a wooden slat was thrown.
A man (23) was fatally injured by knife wounds in the abdomen, and according to BILD information also suffered a craniocerebral trauma. An emergency operation saved his life a little later, and his condition is now said to be stable. This was also confirmed by Interior Minister Herbert Reul (70, CDU) on Friday.
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