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The mass brawl reportedly took place in the city of Gotha, the fifth-largest city in the central German state of Thuringia. A video shows several men attacking each other, with police reporting several injuries. It was shot in a snow-covered park close to the Friedenstein Castle, a palace built in the mid-17th century. As it begins one male is seen being pushed to the floor while a dozen males follow him, punching him and striking with a long wooden stick. Eventually, he climbs to his feet while a separate fight takes place behind the group.

THUERINGEN24 The fight broke out in a city in central Germany

Again, one male is forced to the ground and hit repeatedly as the number of males involved in the scuffle grows. It is not clear what started the fight or whether those involved knew each other. Police are now searching for witnesses and information about the incident. Back in December police blamed a number of “young asylum seekers” for a brawl which took place at famous Christmas market in Munich. The fighting broke out at the Bautzen Christmas market — thought to be the oldest market of its kind in Germany — when locals objected to a group of around six migrant youths playing loud music from their mobile phones at the weekend.

THUERINGEN 24 It is unclear how and why the fight broke out

A police source said the group of “young asylum seekers” initially were in a “verbal disagreement” with an equally sized group of young locals, according to local media reports. The source remarked: “After a heated debate, individuals from both groups are said to have shoved each other. Two young men are said to have hurt themselves.” As the migrants withdrew from the fight, they damaged a car on their way, causing hundreds of euros of damage. And in the days after Christmas around 200 migrants from Gambia were involved in a fight with a group of Moroccans at a refugee centre in Sigmaringen, a town in southern Germany. One of the men behind the mass brawl was arrested by police and was admitted to a hospital due to psychological symptoms. Two of the chief ringleaders, aged 20 and 26, on the Moroccan side were taken in judicial custody for a few hours. Since the migrant crisis began, Germany has accepted more than one million migrants.

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