Overview

• A dispute between two showman families in a Cannstatter Wasen festival tent shortly before midnight escalated into a fight.
• Event security could not calm the situation, the aggression shifted toward responding officers, and police used pepper spray to halt the attacks.
• Eight police officers and four security staff sustained minor injuries, authorities said.
• Ten individuals were provisionally arrested during the intervention and were later released.
• Police are investigating suspected breach of the peace as well as alleged assaults on officers, bodily harm, threats and insults, while the trigger and the number of participants remain unclear.