Article is in German. Here's a short summary:In the night from 04/29 to 04/30 three police patrol cars came to the Ellwangen refugee reception center (former Bundeswehr barracks) to pick up a 23 y/o Togolese who was to be deported.
200 Africans surrounded the police, freed the Togolese (with handcuffs still on) and forced the police to withdraw to the center's guard area.
The refugees hit and damaged the patrol cars.
Later a security guard who was acting as a middleman at the behest of the refugees issued an ultimatum to the police.
If the police didn't remove the Togolese' handcuffs the refugees would storm the gate. (It is unclear whether they threatened to storm the center's outer gate and attack the town or the gate of the guard area and attack the police.)
The police surrendered the key to the handcuffs to the middleman. The Togolese has apparently vanished.
The police were commended by their superiors for staying calm. Reinforcements would have taken hours to arrive. The rioters will be criminally investigated.