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Flying bottles, burning cars and brawls: During a demonstration against the eviction of the house “Liebig 34” in Berlin, outbreaks of violence broke out on Friday night. The rioters repeatedly threw fireworks, bottles and stones specifically at emergency services such as the police On twitter wrote. Stones were thrown into shop windows near Hackescher Markt. Several cars caught fire.
The house “Liebig 34”, symbol of the radical left scene, about which there was a long and heated discussion, was evacuated on Friday morning under protest. Police identified 57 people in the building, but later released them. He will be investigated on suspicion of trespassing.
On Friday night, protesters marched through Berlin-Mitte with chants in the rain, the atmosphere was aggressive. The protest march was stopped again and again. There were fights between the participants and the police, who were at the scene with a large number of around 1,900 officers. According to on-site observers, more than a thousand people participated in the demonstration.
The group splits up and deliberately gets upset
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. The police threatened to end the demonstration prematurely if the violence continued. As protesters rioted and police blocked entrances, normal life continued on Friday night in Berlin-Mitte and people were sitting in restaurants.
There had already 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.
