WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) Clashes broke out between hundreds of asylum seekers in a crowded migrant center in central Berlin.
Multiple people were arrested at the former airport of Tempelhof, which is now temporary accommodation for over 1,200 refugees.
A police spokesman said windows were smashed, sofas were thrown, and fire extinguishers emptied, adding that several residents of the shelter were wounded.
Some 500 people evacuated the building ‘in fear and panic’ over the dispute.
These were not the only fights to break out at shelters this weekend.
If followed just hours after another mass fight which saw migrants attack each other with fire extinguishers at a refugee shelter in the Berlin suburb of Spandau.
At a refugee home in Berlin’s Kreuzberg area, a 18-year-old struck a 17-year-old on the head with a belt, police said.
Meanwhile, five people were injured in a fight between Syrians in the showers of an accommodation in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Such disturbances have occurred before in other shelters in Germany, with tensions escalating quickly between often traumatised people from different cultures sharing packed spaces.
Germany’s police union had called for refugees to be separated by religion and by country of origin to minimise the potential for conflict.
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