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The aggressive crowd reportedly insulted and harassed police as they attended to reports an 11-year-old boy was trying to start the engine of a car he had been sitting in.Soldiner, Berlin.

The boy, known only as Mustafa El-M, reacted aggressively to police when they approached him in the car in Berlin and a short time after a group of up to 70 bystanders began to confront police , according to BZ Berlin.

Officers were forced to call back up when the crowd began to grow on Tuesday morning. Dog units and more officers with stab-proof vests arrived to assist their colleagues.

A video of the incident was capture showing about 20 hostile people, including children, insulting and pushing the police.