Overview

• Police say the confrontation followed a failed €15 card payment and a later return visit that escalated into violence.
• According to the police report, the 25-year-old allegedly hit the café owner with an aluminum beach-flag pole as furniture was overturned.
• Officers used pepper spray when met with resistance; the three brothers fled, were pursued, and were arrested shortly afterward.
• Investigations are underway into suspected dangerous bodily harm, embezzlement, resisting enforcement and attacking officers.
• The injured include three police officers, a café employee and the owner’s 10-year-old daughter, and the owner has publicly criticized the decision to leave the trio at liberty.