A refugee, who was due to be deported by authorities in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, has disappeared, after about 150 asylum seekers attacked two police patrol cars that had been ordered to remove him, police admitted on Wednesday.
The incident took place in the town of Ellwangen, between Nuremburg and Stuttgart, early on Monday morning.
Four officers arrived at a migrant reception center in the town to collect the 23-year-old Togolese man, officials said.
The refugee group then started attacking the patrol vehicles and assaulted the officers.
The migrants then sent a security officer from the refugee home to act as an intermediary and gave the police an ultimatum: take the Togolese man’s handcuffs off within two minutes, otherwise they would storm the entrance gate of the accommodation.