Before the Champions League group game between FC Bayern Munich and Galatasaray Istanbul, fans of the Turkish football club set off pyrotechnics on Munich’s Marienplatz on Wednesday. A police spokesman said some supporters were temporarily arrested. There were initially no further riots and the fan gathering remained largely calm.
The police spokesman did not confirm reports of alleged anti-Semitic incidents. Only a poster with the inscription “Free Palestine” was unrolled. But this does not constitute a criminal offense, he said.