Overview
- Organizers staged a large Christopher Street Day parade with more than 120 groups and an expected 10,000-plus participants as a multi-day street festival drew roughly 150,000 visitors across four days.
- In the night to Saturday a 62-year-old man who was walking hand in hand with his partner was struck in the face with a glass bottle at Battonnstraße/Lange Straße and the attacker fled, leaving the victim with facial injuries.
- Also in the same night bottles were thrown at the entrance of a queer bar in Alte Gasse, shattering a window but causing no injuries, and police detained a 21-year-old on suspicion of property damage.
- Frankfurt police are actively investigating both incidents as queerphobic attacks, searching for the unidentified bottle assailant, and asking witnesses to call 06975510100 to provide information.
- A separate Pro-Palestine demonstration of several hundred participants ran in the city center during the parade and police warned it would cause traffic disruption and complicate crowd-management for the event.