The defendant in a courtroom in Hamburg. A 21-year-old Dutchman was handed jail time by a German court on Monday in the first trial over violent riots against the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, local media reported. An audience of around 40 people in the courtroom expressed shock over the relatively severe sentence. Hamburg police said on Monday they have opened more than 2,000 criminal probes related to the anti-G20 violence. The violence proved embarrassing for host Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as local officials, prompting calls for Hamburg Mayor Olaf Schulz to resign.

Source: The Local August 29, 2017 07:30 UTC