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Twelve burning cars, broken glass, skirmishes
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After the eviction of “Liebig 34” the violence intensified
After the occupied house on Berlin’s Liebigstrasse has been vacated, a demonstration intensifies in Berlin. Shop windows were demolished, cars were set on fire and bottles and stones were thrown at police officers.
The occupied house “Liebig 34” was evacuated in the morning amid protests. Violence broke out during a demonstration in Berlin-Mitte on Friday night. The police launched 37 criminal investigations.
meIn connection with the riots during the protest against the eviction of the occupied house “Liebig 34” in Berlin, the police launched 37 criminal investigations. Among other things, it was about resistance to law enforcement officers and property damage, Berlin police announced on Saturday. In 34 cases there were restrictions and deprivation of liberty.
Initially, a police spokesman could not say how many people were already at large. Seven policemen were injured during the evening, but none of them had to be treated at the hospital. Twelve vehicles had been set on fire Saturday morning and a large number of vehicles and windows in adjacent stores had been damaged, police said.
The house “Liebig 34”, symbol of the radical left scene, about which there was a long and heated discussion, was vacated on Friday morning. The evacuation was accompanied by demonstrations in the surrounding streets, during which officials claimed to have been massively attacked. Eleven policemen were injured here.
Police counted 57 people at the “Liebig34” house on Friday morning. The officers obtained the identification and released her. He will be investigated on suspicion of trespassing.
In two other demonstrations in the city center on Saturday night, there were serious clashes with the police. According to officials, the protesters burned fireworks and threw rocks and bottles at the emergency services.
The police threatened to end the demonstration prematurely if the violence continued. According to the police, around 1,700 people participated. From a group of around 500 people, stones and bottles were thrown at the police over and over again.
A group of around 20 rioters broke away from the demonstration and deliberately destroyed shop windows and car windows on Steinstrasse, as one dpa reporter observed.
As protesters rioted and police blocked entrances, normal life continued on Friday night in Berlin-Mitte and people were sitting in restaurants.
The police were on the scene with a large number. Because of the demonstration and because “further action can be expected in relation to Liebig34, we are still on duty with around 1900 colleagues,” police announced on Twitter that night.
Police officers are on duty at a demonstration of left-wing groups not far from Alte Schönhauser Strasse
Source: dpa / Paul Zinken
Officials had prepared for a larger operation: there had been outbreaks of violence in the nights before the eviction. In the early hours of Monday morning, suspected extremists had carried out an arson attack on S-Bahn cable connections near the Frankfurter Allee station in Friedrichshain. A letter of confession targeted the perpetrators of the left-wing extremist milieu. The authors wrote that the attack was aimed at the evacuation of Liebigstrasse 34.
The Berlin Interior Senator reacted indignantly to the overnight riots: “I condemn blind violence in the strongest possible way,” said SPD politician Andreas Geisel, according to a tweet from the interior administration on Saturday morning. “Anyone who breaks windows and starts cars has abandoned the political discussion.” Geisel thanked the emergency services for “their professional work” and wished his injured colleagues a speedy and speedy recovery.
Delay in Leipzig dissolved
After the authorization of “Liebig 34”, the police also broke up a meeting of about 100 people in Leipzig-Connewitz. As the police announced on Friday night, the meeting on Friday night was “not very peaceful.” The individuals are said to have lit fireworks. According to a dpa reporter, firecrackers were thrown in the direction of the police officers. Therefore, the meeting broke up around 10 pm.
According to the police, there were no injuries. The meeting leader could not be identified. The police verified the identities of several people.
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