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Summary: Occupied house “Liebig 34” evacuated under protest and with lots of police
It is still dark when hundreds of young protesters in Berlin are at their favorite project. The intersection in front of the house “Liebig 34”, which is cordoned off with bars, is brightly lit with spotlights on Friday morning. “Houses for those who live in them”the protesters shout. Loud pots and chants of applause roar through the air. Police officers are posted in several rows. Special police units are also in full swing on the roofs of houses.
The corner house on Liebigstrasse in the Friedrichshain district – a symbol of the radical left scene –, which has been the subject of heated discussion for so long, must be evacuated and turned over to the owner. The police have also prepared for this day and have gone through various scenarios. 1,500 police officers from various federal states are also deployed in the city.
It was to be expected: the entrance to the house is barricaded. Shortly after 7:00 am, a heavy cleaning vehicle heads toward the house. Policemen work at the door with levers and chainsaws. At the same time, more police officers are working on a scaffolding cutter in a first-floor window. After half an hour, the door and windows are open, the excavator with a mounted ram is not needed.
The police work in the house. Continue from one apartment to another for three hours. Heavy concrete elements on the stairs. must block the passage to individual floors. Police were looking for other ways to get to the top, he said. A steel patio door to the interior opens. A ladder is closed with a heavy metal plate that can be folded, the police break in. The doors and hallways of the apartments are partially blocked, the windows are nailed from the inside, the police are cleaning planks and thick boards.
Little by little, neighbors and squatters are taken out of the house in groups. A woman runs down the ramp from the first floor and raises her clenched fist in a battle salute. At 11 a.m., four hours after the eviction began, the last woman left the house. The building police has 57 people. She establishes the personal data and discards it. The investigation is under suspicion of trespassing.
By then, many of the approximately 1,500 protesters had already withdrawn. The song can be heard from one of the surrounding houses. “The dream is over” of fragments of clay stones. The police are also surprised that the protest was less than expected. There was little resistance, says a police spokesman. The people of the house remained largely peaceful. Police tweeted that police officers had been heavily attacked with bottles from bottles in adjacent streets.
According to the police, other places in the city had already burned the night before. Car tires, garbage containers and terminal building at Tiergarten S-Bahn station. The inscription “L34” is on the wall. An anti-eviction rally was announced for Friday night.
In the house “Liebig 34” was two years ago a ten year commercial lease for the residents association has expiredwho describes himself as an “anarcha-queer-feminist”. In a long legal dispute, the landlord was right and executed the eviction. The neighborhood association attorney, Moritz Heusinger, criticized on the brink of eviction for not having been admitted to his clients, to de-escalate. That is “completely incomprehensible”.
(by Andreas Rabenstein and Jutta Schütz, dpa)
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