{"id":182347,"date":"2023-12-12T17:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=182347"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:01:51","slug":"playground-punch-up-leaves-49-people-needing-medical-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/playground-punch-up-leaves-49-people-needing-medical-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Playground punch-up leaves 49 people needing medical treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Playground punch-up leaves 49 people needing medical treatment, including headmistress with a broken hand, after spiralling out of control<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Initial fight broke out between five boys over a football at school in Berlin\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It quickly escalated into a mass brawl involving pupils, teachers and police\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A punch-up in a playground left 49 people &#8211; including the headmistress &#8211; needing medical treatment after a high school fight descended into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The initial fight broke out between five boys aged 14 and 15 over a football at the Efeuweg Community School on Monday in southern Berlin but it quickly escalated into a mass brawl involving pupils, teachers and police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of pupils were punched, two teachers were pepper sprayed while the school&#8217;s headmistress, 52, suffered a broken finger after being thrown against a wall when she tried to break up the fight, reports Bild.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the school but the carnage didn&#8217;t stop there. A pupil&#8217;s older brother arrived at the scene and punched an officer, who responded by hitting the 21-year-old with a bat.<\/p>\n<p>The punch-up began when two boys, aged 14 and 15,\u00a0were arguing with three others of the same age over a football. As the argument became more heated, the 14-year-old lunged at the larger group with pepper spray, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/16\/78874391-12855325-image-a-66_1702398077968.jpg\" height=\"434\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The initial fight broke out between five boys aged 14 and 15 over a football at the Efeuweg Community School on Monday in southern Berlin but it quickly escalated into a mass brawl involving pupils, teachers and police officers. Pictured: General view of the school in Berlin<\/p>\n<p>When the 14-year-old dropped the spray, one of the pupils from the larger group took the spray and sprayed it at the duo.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a sixth student, also aged 15, attacked the older of the duo with a series of punched to their body. At this moment, other students who were stood in the playground quickly got involved and exchanged blows in a chaotic punch-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two shocked teachers, aged 30 and 38, ran towards the brawling pupils and tried to break up the fight &#8211; but they were also attacked and sprayed with the pepper spray, reports Tagesspiegel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The headmistress, hearing the ruckus outside, ran towards the students to try and break up the fight but she was pushed by the youngsters &#8211; so hard that she broke her finger after being thrown against a wall.<\/p>\n<p>The headmistress and another teacher, who was asthmatic, were taken to hospital following the mass brawl at the school of 750 students.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene but that wasn&#8217;t the end of the chaos. Police at the scene said the big brother of the 15-year-old who was part of the duo arrived at the school and punched an officer in the face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The officer responded by hitting the 21-year-old in the face, leaving him with a busted lip. Police said they offered to give him medical treatment but he refused and threatened the officers. He was arrested before being released.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the punch-up left 49 people including teachers needing treatment for their injuries. Local media report several people involved are being investigated by police for bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>Following the violent outburst, the education administration has set up a crisis team and called in school psychologists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We will continue to communicate to ensure the best possible support for our school,&#8217; school supervisors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school,\u00a0where 81.3 per cent of students have German as their second language, has also employed in-house security guards to roam the corridors with the hope it will stem any further violence.<\/p>\n<p>The school had been guarded by the security guards but the district had cut their funding completely for financial reasons this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12855325\/Playground-punch-leaves-49-people-needing-medical-treatment-including-headmistress-broken-hand-spiralling-control.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playground punch-up leaves 49 people needing medical treatment, including headmistress with a broken hand, after spiralling out of control Initial fight broke out between five boys over a football at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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