… While the suspects have yet to be formally identified, the national head of the German Police Union (DPoIG) Rainer Wendt told Focus magazine: “The prevailing impression among the emergency services staff is that groups of young men with immigrant backgrounds took part in the riots to a disproportionately large extent.”
This was echoed by Herbert Reul the conservative interior minister of the most populous state of North-Rhine Westphalia who was quoted in the mass-circulation tabloid BILD, and former federal health minister Jens Spahn also of the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), who took the opportunity to call for a rethink of immigration policy.
Above- literally the last two paragraphs of the article.
