Four police officers were left injured after football hooligans loyal to FC Cologne fought with fans of Red Star Belgrade in the Rhine city on Thursday evening.
Local police in the university town of Göttingen reported on Sunday evening that a mass brawl involving 200 people had taken place. But on Monday they confirmed it hadn’t actually occurred.
Clashes broke out Sunday between hundreds of asylum seekers at a shelter in Berlin, in the second mass brawl to erupt over the weekend in Germany's crowded migrant accommodations.
Some 50 people at a German shelter for asylum seekers engaged in a violent brawl overnight, hurling chairs and beating each other with table legs, leaving six people injured, police said Saturday.
Seventeen people were injured in a riot at a refugee shelter in central Germany over a torn Koran, police said on Thursday, in fresh tensions as the country braces to host 800,000 asylum seekers this year.
When a 16-year-old girl invited a couple of friends round for a quiet movie, the last thing she expected was for it to escalate into a brawl involving pepper spray and guard dogs. But exactly that happened on Saturday night in North Rhine-Westphalia.