New Year's Eve in Wels: Police operation escalated-allegations against civil servants!

New Year's Eve in Wels: Police operation escalated-allegations against civil servants!

During New Year's Eve there were unrest in Wels, even if the feared violent riots failed to fail from the previous year. The fire brigade was strongly challenged in the city and eliminated numerous small fires, especially with fireworks residues and garbage container fires. Like Meinzär reported , two people were arrested in the district of Lichtenegg after conflict between young people and the police occurred. Some young people fired unauthorized pyrotechnics, which led to a major police operation. The most striking among the arrested, a 19-year-old, vehemently resisted police control.

arrests and allegations against the police

In the course of the clashes, both the 19-year-old and a 20-year-old were slightly injured while a police officer suffered a finger fracture. The two arrested then expressed serious allegations against the civil servants and reports of aggressive behavior and racist insults during their arrest. They claim that they were unexpectedly drawn into the crowd and the police treated them unfairly, which they want to prove with a video. Police chief Hermann Krenn expressed in his statement that the incidents should be carefully checked. However, he ruled out a brutal procedure for the civil servants because they were trained and the behavior of the emergency services is always professional.

The situation was "tension -loaded" due to the high number of celebrations and the use of pyrotechnics. Despite the allegations, the processing of the incident for the state police directorate is of great importance in order to maintain trust in the police and to examine any misconduct transparently.