About 240 supporters of the football clubs SV Darmstadt 98 and Eintracht Frankfurt have delivered in the night to Sunday in a desert brawl. According to police, the two groups met at the highway 5 in the South more city to each other. The fight stretched from the shopping center Loop 5 and on the highway. According to the “hessenschau” were some of the people on the strip and has led to numerous emergency calls from concerned motorists. The police moved in with 15 patrol cars. Upon Arrival, Participants were fled by foot and by car. The officials made sure, among other things, batons, shock gloves, Boxing gloves, and pepper spray.

The police controlled more than 30 people. Many of them had been injured in the face and on the hands, it said. Furthermore 40 damaged, and with blood-soaked car was found. According to the figures, had agreed to meet the supporters of the clubs to the mass brawl. The participants were distributed half and half to the club. The thugs, who had come according to the police, from the Rhine-Main region and southwest Germany, need to face criminal proceedings for aggravated trespassing and grievous bodily harm.