Carnival: Trier police attacked by nightclub revelers
By DW
25 February 2023 |
1:40 pm
Most German police departments reported comparatively calm carnival festivities overnight on Thursday. But five police officers were injured in Trier as a group of about 40 people attacked them with makeshift weapons.
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