And what, pray tell, did you think was going to happen?

The three cars had been sent to the refugee shelter in Ellwangen in southern Germany to collect a 23-year-old man, whose asylum application to remain in Germany, had been rejected.

The two hundred ‘mostly African’ asylum seekers swarmed the three police cars dispatched to take the man to an airport where a flight was waiting to deport him.

They swarmed the police cars and demanded, whilst beating the cars so hard they did significant damage, the single refugee be un-cuffed and released or risk ‘massive violence.’