Around 11 p.m. on Saturday night, about ten people attacked each other in Vienna’s Wurstelprater. Two of them were injured, the police said in a statement. They even had to call for reinforcements from other districts.
Several groups, including Turkish football fans and Syrians, chased each other across the Praterstern with large wooden sticks and fireworks. According to media reports, people from the Arab world were also involved. There may be a connection with the football match between Turkey and the Netherlands.
Police officers monitoring the EURO fan zone in the Prater were alerted to a fight involving about ten people. They rushed to the Wurstelprater, but only found two injured people. A 19-year-old was slightly injured in the buttocks by a knife, and a 23-year-old suffered a laceration to his head. The two young Austrians were treated by the rescue team and another organization, the youngest had to be taken to a hospital.
Witnesses report provocations
Witnesses and injured people said that there had been provocations before the incident and that a fight had followed. The other people involved had disappeared in the meantime. The police were deployed with a large contingent and cordoned off the area around the Straße des Erste Mai.
There were no further incidents around the European Football Championship in Vienna on Saturday. The public viewing at Vienna’s central station had been closed earlier for security reasons, but the Favoriten district remained calm. The Dutch team won 2-1 against the Turkish team.
Source: Krone
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