Berlin

Riots during a Demonstration in Berlin

During a Demonstration of left Autonomous in Berlin to riots. In the district of Friedrichshain attacked the police Masked with stones, bottles and firecrackers. Several police officers were injured.

Firecrackers and stones were thrown on the policemen in the district of Friedrichshain

The police arrested, according to a spokesman, some of the alleged rioters. In the case of the riots shop Windows were destroyed and police cars damaged. The officers sprayed tear gas. The police speaks of 1500 protesters, other observers were rather of 3000 participants.

A Large Police Operation

The mood was, according to the observation of a dpa reporter is very aggressive. The Demonstration has continued despite the riots. Around 1,800 police officers were deployed. The protest demonstration was directed against the police missions of Autonomous inhabited houses in Friedrichshain.

For Weeks Attacks

The planned demonstration route leads through the Riga road. A large police operation there in January and the clearing of some areas in a house, in June, radical scene provided in the links for riot. For weeks, there is almost every night of arson attacks on cars, the extremists are attributed to. In the past few weeks, there had been a part of incitement to violence and street battles. The protests are directed against real estate speculation and the displacement of indigenous population groups from the Berlin Neighborhoods.

In the centre of the riots, the left-Autonomous houses in the Riga street

Berlin’s interior Senator Frank Henkel (CDU) had announced that the police will also be in the night after the Demonstration present. So riots and arson attacks should be prevented.

Part of the Berlin city politics

In Berlin violent conflicts around the living room have become a popular Tradition. In the 1980s, there were numerous squatters in the districts of Kreuzberg and Schöneberg. Here, too, there was the day-long massive street battles between protesters and police. After the fall of the Berlin wall, the situation calmed down a little. However, it came in 1990 in the Mainzer Straße in Friedrichshain, one of the most serious riots after the eviction of some of the occupied houses. In the Wake of the excessive police violence of the red-green Senate disintegrated, as the Alternative list withdrew from the government.

cgn/gri (afp, dpa)