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It was the beginning of a possibly sensitive week: for the police, for the leftist scene, and the red-red-green government coalition. Late on Saturday night, the left-wing scene in Friedrichshainer Nordkiez demonstrated against the eviction of the occupied house at Liebigstrasse 34. Police spoke of up to 2,000 participants, observers counted up to 3,000 participants. From the demonstration, firefighters were thrown with pyrotechnics or sprayed with liquids. There were several arrests.
Before the “Liebig34” is cleared on Friday, security authorities are concerned about an escalation of violence. An internal assessment of the situation by the State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA), expressly, but still carefully, warns against a “tendency to militancy”.
After the police had initially planned 2,500 emergency services for Friday, there is now more need. More support is needed from other federal states, including 19 hundreds, five tests and hundreds of arrests, four water cannons, various high altitude rescue teams and technicians. Ad hoc working groups should also be prepared, just in case.
In mid-August, the autonomous scene published a photo, 20 masked people posed in front of the partially occupied house on Rigaer Strasse 94, a known violent criminal posed with a Kalashnikov, a mannequin, as forensic technicians later discovered from the Photos. And yet it is a declaration of war, the federal authorities have been on fire.
They check how strong the influx of the left extremist scene is in Germany and Europe for the day of the eviction. The calculations are based on autonomists from Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig and Copenhagen, but also from France and Greece. In particular, they are considered to be particularly militant and ready to use violence, tactically trained in street fighting with police units. A mobilization video from the scene on the left recalls the arson attacks on cars and police objects.
The evacuation date triggers an “absolute alarm signal” in the scene on the left
Liebigstrasse 34’s lease expired in 2018, real estate investor Gijora Padovicz obtained an eviction order. The imminent sheriff’s appointment is likely to set off an “absolute red flag” on the left scene “in Berlin, Germany and internationally,” according to internal documents. It is about the loss of one of the most internationally known “left wing extremist” residential properties, which is considered a place of elementary retirement. Therefore, a “special motivational boost to solidarity” can be expected.
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Police experts expect the deployment to go beyond what will happen on May 1, when around 5,000 officers are on duty. The evacuation of Liebigstrasse 14 in 2011 with 2,500 officials or the evictions at Yorckstrasse and Brunnenstrasse in the 1990s would not have had the pull effect at all. The police speak of the most difficult eviction from Mainzer Strasse. In the late 1990s, squatters and police fought a street battle over 13 houses there for days, when the red-green coalition broke out.
The Liebig house project34, which describes itself as “anarcha-queer-feminist”, has heralded a “struggle” and a violent resistance. The balconies are blocked with shopping carts. There are reports of work on the house, construction materials must be donated, cobblestones were seen. Police anticipate traps that could injure officers. It is said that the house was turned into a fortress.
The leftist scene has also announced decentralized acts of violence. Paint stains, stone throwing, smashed windows, and car arsons are expected. The price of the eviction should be high. After the demonstration on Saturday, the front of the window of a bank branch was damaged with cobblestones and the perpetrators left the slogan “L34”. Therefore, the police have ordered the protection of space in the city, especially in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Lichtenberg.
Also for police officers can be assumed “increased risk”. All company cars should be checked for incendiary devices or crow’s feet before departure. The manipulation of private cars by officials is recalled. Precautions will harden on properties. Traffic police officers are also warned about surprise attacks.
