Riots
Dozens of cars in Berlin, demolished
Two nights in a row, rioters in Berlin have drawn and vehicles demolished. Injured or arrests was not available. For politically motivated criminal offences the competent state protection determined.
Berlins Innensenator Frank Henkel made “left-anarchists” for the devastation responsible. “The security authorities are against this Straßenterror appropriately and consistently carried out,” announced the CDU politician.
According to police, were approximately 20 to 40 Masked men on bicycles in the night of Saturday at the Kreuzberg Gleisdreieck Park-4 high-quality cars set on fire and 24 severely damaged. In the night from Saturday to Sunday was Similar in Berlin-Neukölln happens. There were about 20 cars damaged. Witnesses spoke of 50 to 100 part masked perpetrators.
Panes of glass of a Bank branch thrown
Also in the suburbs Gesundbrunnen and Charlottenburg burned at the weekend cars. As the newspaper “Tagesspiegel” reports, in Berlin-Steglitz in addition, the slices of a Bank branch with bricks and a paving slab thrown in. Elsewhere, went to the window of the office of the Stadtteilverwaltung to break.
Left profess
In a letter of confession to one of the Left and Autonomous use website was the first night of a “social democratic Volksfahrräderkommando” the speech, the questionable street and visited “Luxuskarren entglast and warm scrapped”.
Protest against remedial
In the German capital, there are always actions alleged Linksautonomer against alleged “Luxussanierungen” of residential areas. If there might be a connection between the riots and a Demonstration of left-wing groups on Saturday in the district of Friedrichshain is unclear. This was according to police, around 4000 people at a Protestzug part.
There were five police officers slightly injured and two people arrested. Around 1,200 officers were deployed. They were isolated with bottles and stones thrown at them. The Demo had Left and radical left-wing groups, under the Motto “for freedom” called.
uh/wl (dpa)