Most of Germany reported that disappointed Euro 2008 fans went home peacefully on Sunday night after their team’s defeat, but there was violence in Hamm, where several people were injured in a knifing incident.
An argument in a Hamm bar turned into a brawl when a man threw a heavy ashtray at another patron, causing severe injury, police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said on Monday.
Then a 26-year-old guest pulled a pocket knife, stabbing two other guests.
Another patron tried to attack police as they arrived, but was subdued with pepper spray, police reported.
Two men were killed in front of a shopping centre in Murnau, a town in the Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on Saturday.
A 36-year-old man died from his injuries at the scene, while a 23-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries, where he later died, police said on Saturday evening.
Both of the victims were Ukrainian citizens who lived in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district, police said.
The same evening, police arrested a 57-year-old suspect – said to be a Russian national – who lives near the crime scene.
The 57-year-old is now being investigated on suspicion of murder.
“The exact course of events, background and motive are now the subject of the criminal investigation,” the police said.
The public prosecutor’s office has applied for a warrant for the suspect’s arrest.
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