Key actors — tap for context
Stadtpolizei Zürich
Zurich city police
Why here: was breaking up an illegal party and became the target of an attack
Karin Rykart
security director of the city of Zurich for the Greens
Why here: said she was shocked and that the attackers knowingly risked seriously injuring police officers
Hardplatz
a square in Zurich's Kreis 4 district
Why here: the site of the illegal party and the attack on police
Several police vehicles were damaged, some beyond repair, and about twenty-four containers burned. blue News ↗ According to SRF, the burning containers blocked the Hard underpass and access roads, and the damaged buildings included a branch of UBS bank. SRF ↗
Police speak of targeted attacks and assume the rockets were prepared in advance, which they are still investigating. They say they did not have enough forces to make arrests, because a large deployment cannot be organized by pressing a button within minutes. SRF ↗ According to SRF, it is still unclear who organized the party, and Tages-Anzeiger also asks why no arrests were made. Tages-Anzeiger ↗
According to SRF, Karin Rykart is shocked and regularly requests additional police posts from the city council, though only some are approved. SRF ↗ NZZ writes that this revives the old debate about whether the city needs more police officers for such deployments, and in its headline claims that traces at the scene point to the milieu of FC Zürich. The details are behind its paywall, so we present this as NZZ's claim, not as a verified fact. NZZ ↗
*Illustrative photo: Hardplatz square in Zurich, unrelated to the described event (UCaetano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0).*
