The reason for the riot was because Fortuna the Dusseldorf football (soccer) team won their game which means they get to move up to the division 2 Bundesliege (sp?). So fans were super excited and a little crazy.
This first video is from April when Dusseldorf played Berlin. It's not the riot from Sunday, but it's an interesting video. It shows you just how crazy the fans/police are. It is kind of a long video and it has alot of German in it, but if you are bored and have some time to kill it is kind of weird to watch. The video opens up and ends right where I used to live with the Meisels. Their house is fairly close to the arena. So here's the video:
There was a video that showed the police attacking the people on Sunday but someone removed it. I do have some pictures I can show you though!
Here are the streets early in the day while everyone was inside watching the game.
Mark and I were at a brewery outside of the Alt Stadt when the game was going. As soon as it ended and Fortuna had one this man came running out of the brewery waving this flag. He is in the middle of the street in this picture blocking traffic.
Here is the same overly happy man daring the taxi to come forward.
This is outside of another brewery. No crazyness, jsut happy fans enjoying their favorite beer.
As it started getting later more and more police started showing up. They are the ones on the right hand side with the white helmets on.
More Police
...and even more. At this point Mark and I were in a pub that had all of the windows open because of the nice weather. Lucky for us we got some of the backlash of the police's pepper spray. That was pleasant.
The streets filled with tons of people.
People started throwing and busting up tables and chairs from restaurants in the streets. Then of course they decided that these things must be burned.
Police on the way to stop the fire.
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