Protest Against Refugee Deportation in Germany Turns Violent

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At least nine police officers were injured as violent clashes between students and police broke out in the German city of Nurnberg when a group of students spontaneously tried to block the deportation of an Afghan fellow learner.

Clashes erupted on Wednesday between students and police at the vocational school at Berliner Platz, where officials were trying to evacuate a 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker from the camp.

Students surrounded the police car carrying the student and stopped it from leaving the school. A protest then followed with police using tear gas and batons to disperse the students.

The spontaneous protest was soon joined by other students as well as by some people passing by. The crowd of protesters grew to 300 people in several hours, the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports, adding that after that the protest grew violent.

Separately, protests were reported across the European country against the continued deportation of Afghan refugees. Protesters said the Afghans had no security back home and Berlin’s decision to deport them was against their will.

Authorities decided to cancel the deportation program scheduled for Wednesday after reports emerged from the Afghan capital about a deadly explosion that killed 90 people in a diplomatic district of Kabul.