Liebig 14 Eviction & Riots

[Widerstand]

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(^picture from a Demo on Saturday)


Police arrived in Friedrichshain at Liebig 14 from 4:00am to begin the eviction of one of the last remaining squats in Berlin. The eviction began just before 8:00am and Berlin, Germany, 02/02/2011.

Police turned up in force at 4am, as well as protesters - mainly residents from other housing projects on Rigaer strasse in a show of solidarity against the eviction, despite the below freezing temperatures.

By 4:30am hundreds of protesters were outside Liebig 14, and at 5:00am police began to push them back in every direction. They also entered the surrounding buildings to gain access to the rooftops to monitor the situation as it unfolded.

One man was arrested and separated from his dog which police then tied to a metal fence down a side alley .

At 7:30am the police completely removed the press from within sight of the entrance to the squat - at least 100 metres up the road. Vans were strategically positioned around the entrance to the squat so the media were blocked out. One policeman can be quoted as saying, "Today there is no fucking press freedom." They were aggressive in pushing people back with many aggravated but ultimately unable to do anything to get the shots they wanted.

Just before 8:00am the police entered Liebig 14 through a window to the left of the main door. A battering ram and other tactical unit lined the streets - it was unclear what role they played however as they were out of sight.

At 8:15am the press were moved further back in a more aggressive manner.

Protesters began to run riot in the surrounding area, ending up on Frankfurter Allee before marching to Frankfurter Tor. Here riot police moved in trying to contain people with not much luck. Missiles in the form of rocks and bottles were thrown at the police, smashing on their helmets, whilst firecrackers disorientated some.

A number of arrests were made in a unnecessarily brutal fashion.

Tactical units in the form of armoured vehicles and water cannons turned up en masse, so much so that at one point all you could see were lines of police vehicles.

Most people began to leave the area around 10:00. Further action in solidarity with the residents of Liebig 14 is happening throughout the day.

The residents of the what they like to call a housing project have been struggling with the owner of the building Suitbert Beulker and manager of child protection agency Unna, Edwin Thöne, over the termination of all the housing contracts. Negotiations with politicians to buy the house with the help of a foundation failed as they claimed they had no say in the matter.

Even politicians such as interior senator Erhard Körting and the senator for city development, Ingeborg Junge-Reyer who have been pushing a neo-liberal housing policy turned a blind eye and recently abolished rent benefits for people on unemployment benefits (Hartz IV). Holger Lippmann, manager of Liegenschaftsfonds (the Berlin real estate holding company), refused up to the end to negotiate honestly for an alternative space for the project.

Other housing projects in the area such as Rigaer 94 and nearby Køpi remain as self-governing free spaces.

source and pictures: http://www.demotix.com/news/577116/riots-berlin-liebig-14-squat-eviction-begins




Meanwhile the Liebig 14 twitter reports of various arrests and searches all throughout the city, apparently there are very large masses of cops deployed, some high priced store has been attacked with stones and the firebrigade was deployed to another place, some buildings are reported as being squatted.

[An archist]

Thanks! keep the updates coming.

[Widerstand]

Apparently there were also some attempts to build barricades on adjacent streets; the Karl-Marx Allee was blocked by a tram ( :lol: ), other blockades included shopping carts.

Since about 20-30 minutes, people inside L14 are being arrested and removed from the building. There's prisoners support and VoKüs (food handout) at several places.

There have been various solidarity actions in and outside of Germany, some of those inside Germany included banners in Konstanz and Ludwigshafen, as well as a demo in Leipzig which turned into small-scale rioting where several observational cameras have been practically vetoed.

Other solidarity actions are planned, two more demos in Berlin today, one at 15:00 and one at 19:00.

Some vids from Saturday:

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oh and because it's awesome, the L14 countdown video:

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[Widerstand]

Two more solidarity Demos have been announced: 18:00 in Göttingen (Gänseliesel) and 20:00 in Hamburg (Rote Flora).

At 13:30 around 100 people gathered in solidarity at Göttingen Campus.

Meanwhile there have been various brutal arrests in Berlin; a cop car's windows have been broken; apparently cops from nearby states have been drawn in to help in the city; and as of 14:03, 3 water tanks and an eviction tank have been deployed to the district in which most protests are so far.

45 min until the first Demo in Berlin starts.

edit: Guardian reports: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/02/berlin-liebig-14-squat-eviction-police

2,500 police officers? they scared!

[Widerstand]

Another solidarity Demo in Saarbrücken, today 18:00 (Max Ophüls Platz).

Cops drawn in from Dresden have, masked and wearing riot gear, entered or attempted to enter Kreuziger 18 (another squat in Berlin). Pepper spray was used and people have been beat down in front of the squat, several injuries are reported. Apparently they don't attempt to enter it right now, but there are still about 50 cops sieging the building. Nobody knows why (it hasn't been ordered to be evicted).

5 water tanks, 3 eviction/antiblockade tanks and 3 or 4 utility vehicles, and at least 20 cop transporters have gathered near the 15:00 demo site. About half the cops are non-uniformed in civil clothing!

Attacks against train lines have been carried out, some cables were burned, tram stopped.

A group of clowns has been kettled.

Total arrests so far: 25, including those within L14.

[The Militant]

It's great to see the people realize their collective ability to make change wherever they may be. The sooner the masses recognize their collective ability, the sooner a socialist society can be achieved. The German bourgeois are frightened because they to know the people are beginning to wake up and open their eyes to the truth.

[Widerstand]

Solidarity demos: in Freiburg at 17:00 (Gartenstraße 19), in Copenhagen at 17:00 (dronning Louises bro), 20:00 in Düsseldorf (linkes Zentrum) and another one started at 16:00 in Cologne!

The demo in Berlin has around 600 to 700 people; fireworks are being used and the police is completely surrounding protesters. Possible escalation.

Apparently yet another building has been squatted, banners are hung out of the windows.

The Kreuziger street is reportedly being sealed off by cops, last info was that they were removing stickers, posters and shouting abuse at residents. Police are gone as of 16:19!

"Aktion schwarze Katze" (action black cat) claimed the early morning attacks on public transport.

An attack on a bank last night has now been claimed as a solidarity action.


It's great to see the people realize their collective ability to make change wherever they may be. The sooner the masses recognize their collective ability, the sooner a socialist society can be achieved. The German bourgeois are frightened because they to know the people are beginning to wake up and open their eyes to the truth.

It's much more than I expected, but sadly far less than needed, and so far confined to the leftist spectrum. The strategy is to increase the political and economic cost of the eviction, through decentralized nationwide/international action.

[PhoenixAsh]

Hold fast, Good luck and Stay safe.

Unfortunately I am to mixed up in other important "things" otherwise I would come. I'll try to see whats happening in HH this weekend and if I have time to come. Not much help...I am afraid :(:crying: ...but my heart is with you guys.

[Widerstand]

18:00: solidarity speech/gathering in Tübingen (Holzmarkt). 17:30 solidarity demo in Osnabrück (Ledenhof).

Liebig 14 is now being guarded by a private security company.

A third building has been squatted, but cops arrived shortly after. no arrests.


Hold fast, Good luck and Stay safe.

Unfortunately I am to mixed up in other important "things" otherwise I would come. I'll try to see whats happening in HH this weekend and if I have time to come. Not much help...I am afraid :(:crying: ...but my heart is with you guys.

If you want to do something in HH, there's the upcomming evictions of the Rote Flora (around end of March / start of April) and the Wagenplatz Zomia (end of April / start of May). If they really go for the eviction, and it doesn't seem unlikely, we'll need whoever we can get.

[Widerstand]

ASJ Mainz announced possible solidarity actions, as did the Antifa Marl.

As of 17:06, around 40 people have been arrested, 6 are free again. The clowns kettled earlier are free as well.

Rigaer94 (yet another longrunning squat) has been sieged by cops for some time, but they seem to have withdrawn now.

Boxenhagener Platz (the place of the 19:00 demo in Berlin) has been surrounded by cops since 17:30, and since then cops keep moving towards it from various parts of town. Several construction sites close to it are being guarded by cops and watertanks.

[Widerstand]

Demonstration is being delayed until 19:15, a lot of people going there are being controlled/searched on the street.

[Red Commissar]

Out of curiosity, how has local media covered these events?

[bcbm]

thanks for the updates! good luck!

[Widerstand]

Out of curiosity, how has local media covered these events?

Depends on the media. Some seemed slightly in favor, but most afaik were sensationalist as hell. I'll cover that later.

Round up of events from when I left till now following soon. From what I heard, Berlin is going seriously ape shit tonight.

Köpi, Flora, and Liebig 14 stay!

[Widerstand]

Demo at Boxenhagener Platz:

Around 1000 people showed up, Demo started 30 min late because of massive searches and controls. Got stopped in between, cops tried to pull people out. When it started again, there was massive fireworks usage. At 20:13 the cops forced the demo to disband because of the fireworks, and they sealed off the street (Warschauerstr.). At least two water tanks are being deployed.
20:43 - demo is split off all over the street (Warschauerstr.), police randomly beats people, bottles and stones are being thrown.
20:44 - a bank on the street got it's windows smashed.
20:48 - at least one helicopter is in the air over the ex-demo.7
20:52 - people are being arrested at the demo.

video from Warschauerstraße at the time of disbandment:

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Other stuff in Berlin:

around 20:30 - O2 World is being attacked with bricks. cops arrive shortly after
around 21:20 - water tanks and cop transporters are seen all throughout the city
around 21:20 - attacks on Galeria Kaufhauf, attacks on a police station at Ostbahnhof (cop transmission reveals they call for support)
21:25 - the ex-demo arrived at Ostbahnhof (around 800 people; about 12 to 15 have been arrested); various controls all throughout the city, some areas are completely sealed off and only residents are allowed to enter; barricades are being build at Boxehagener Platz; 7 more arrests at Ostbahnhof (civil cops)
around 21:40 - cops with drawn weapons (guns?) are removing barricades at Frankfurter Allee
somewhere around 21:50 - police is chasing a mob of around 100 people
21:58 - water tanks and eviction/anti-blockade tanks are rushing south / Gärtnerstraße
- a large barricade in Boxenhagener Straße is burning, cops are withdrawing
22:07 - barricade at Boxenhagener is left alone, cops are removing another barricade (Wühlischstr.)
22:08 - the Dorfplatz is heavily guarded by cops
22:11 - another barricade, this time at Grüni
22:19 - two cop transporters in Friedrichshain got their windows smashed
22:33 - watertanks and helicopters at the Dorfplatz
22:47 - cops are inside Liebig 14, no one is at Dorfplatz (except cops)
23:12 - reports come in that around 22:00, Bahnhofstraße got a little riotted at (EDEKA, Kaufhof and non-uniformed cop troup's car got their windows smashed, some non-uniformed cops got beaten up)
23:21 - the mob that attacked O2 world apparently went towards Frankfurter Tor, a couple of storefronts got smashed on the way
---- around 50 arrests, 20 people got released already ----
23:32 - a couple of burning barricades in boxenhagener straße, cops looking to pull people out and arrest them
23:38 - burning couches on the street at Kreutziger / Boxenhagener street
23:52 - people are being searched / controlled at Warschauer Bridge
23:59 - barricades at Simon-Dach straße
00:05 - reports about cops swarming through the city randomly beating up people
00:32 - cops in front of Kreutziger (I assume they mean the squat)

Solidarity actions:

Dortmund - a group of autonomists attacked some cops in Dortmund, smashed a window of some group (not sure what's behind that). Apparently some people also kicked off a solidarity "Scherbendemo" (glass splinter demo).

Siebelein bei Freiberg: Bank got smashed


Copenhagen - read below:

Copenhagen activists fight on the streets in support for Liebig 14

Angered at the news of the eviction of the some 300 protesters took to the streets of copenhagen in a solidarity demonstration. With chants, slogans and revolutionary music people gathered on the fringe of copenhagen inner city and marched towards the german embassy. The police kept watch on the side streets and from the back and front of the demonstration.

The embassy was guarded by police in riot gear and armored vans. Opun arriving protesters attacked the police with bottles and firecrackers trying to reach. The police approached the demonstrators but didn‘t dare to attack directly or arrest anyone. After the standoff the demonstration went back towards the grounds of Jagtvej 69. The former site of Ungdomshuset in copenhagen. On the way protesters smashed windows of some banks.

Even though the demonstration went without direct attacks from six people were arrest for being in the possesion of gas masks, pepperspray and grafiti cans. Only pepperspray is directly illegal in denmark however.

Rostock - solidarity demo:

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Bielefeld - solidarity demo at 19:00, around 50 people

Jena - a couple of masked protesters walked through the innercity, without cops

Bremen - around 80 people on the street in solidarity

Saarbrücken - around 50 people at solidarity demo

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Gießen - around 80 people on the street

from reports, there were around 600 people at Gießen Göttingen (sorry) solidarity demo

Hamburg - There was considerable media presence, vids should follow! anyway: after being kettled right at the start of the demo for 10 to 20 minute (before it even started!), then beaten and pepper sprayed (when protesters tried to breach the kettle), 400-500 people (according to some web resource) did a pretty good job in the innercity (Reeperbahn/Kiez/St.Pauli). lots of fireworks, at least two water tanks were used, there were burning barricades in Hafenstraße (longrunning leftist squatted street); various missile attacks against cops; police kept chasing the splitting (and reuniting!) mob through the Kiez; possibly some arrests; right now they are swarming all throughout the Schanze and positioned in front of the Rote Flora (long running autonomous center, to be evicted later this year); at least 2 store fronts and 2 banks got smashed; The night is long!

some pictures:

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http://www.abendblatt.de/multimedia/archive/00678/Schanzendemo_9_HA_H_678242c.jpg
http://www.abendblatt.de/multimedia/archive/00678/Schanzendemo_6_HA_H_678239b.jpg
http://www.abendblatt.de/multimedia/archive/00678/Schanzendemo_3_HA_H_678236b.jpg
http://www.abendblatt.de/multimedia/archive/00678/Schanzendemo_2_HA_H_678235b.jpg

---- other stuff:

eviction video Liebig 14:

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[Widerstand]

Wowah holy fucking shit, small solidarity display from Peru!

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pics from copenhagen:

http://media.de.indymedia.org/images/2011/02/299424.jpg
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[Widerstand]

Reports have slowed down a bit, but I'm sure more actions are happening throughout Berlin and possibly other cities right now.

as of 23:33 - around 80 people were arrested or taken into custody, few got released
01:14 - cops are randomly attacking people at Boxhagener Platz
02:43 - 2 brutal arrests are being reported at the street corner Boxhagener Straße / Mainzer Str.; leftists call for others to be careful on the street

some more pics from the 19:00 demo (I assume):

http://www.morgenpost.de/multimedia/archive/00868/liebigafter_02_BM_B_868093b.jpg

And from the day, the infamous police black block demonstrating against peace (BFE team; "evidence securing and arresting unit"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_unit):

http://www.morgenpost.de/multimedia/archive/00867/nopeace_BM_Berlin_B_867402o.jpg

edit: Also of course nice to know, tomorrow morning, another squat in Berlin is being "visited and looked at" by some officials who want to check the situation - possibly resulting in yet another eviction?

[Widerstand]

Osnabrück - around 60 people were on the street with fireworks

Ulm - around 25 people on the street:

http://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/system/files/images/7178624184.preview.jpg

Update from Berlin:

04:15 - Schloßstr. (in the district Steglitz; so far action was mostly confined to the "classical leftist" districts Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg and Neuköln): H&M, Telecom, Pimki and Jack&Jones stores have been attacked with stones and paintbombs

[bcbm]

what other squats are they trying to take down right now? rigaer94 has the same owner and has been under threat in the past (present?) yeah? thanks for all the updates, stay strong out there. wir bleiben alle!

[Widerstand]

Berlin

9:20 - 30 people have been released from custody, amongst them 6 who were inside Liebig 14. 3 who were inside Liebig still remain. 5 people are to be presented to a judge. Since 7:00, about 4 others have been released.

11:42 - a bomb threat against the Axel-Springer company building has been issued. The building and a JobCenter on the other side of the street are being evacuated, the street is sealed off. Why the threat has been issued isn't clear yet. However, BILD (the Axel-Springer company's flagship paper) has a history of anti-leftist campaigns. They reported about the Liebig 14 eviction under the title: "This is how bad Berlin's chaotic anarchists rampage".
The Axel-Springer company is a press/media company notorious for their anti-immigrant and anti-leftist hate campaigns, especially in their tabloid BILD (imagine it as the British SUN, with a more Glenn Beck'ish tone). In the past, there have been huge protests infront of the Axel-Springer building in Berlin, especially after one of their papers called for the assassination of Rudi Dutschke (popular speaker of the student movement), which was headed by a far right guy carrying the paper with him. The Axel-Springer building in Hamburg has been bombed by the RAF once, and the company's buildings are frequent targets of attacks with bricks etc.

12:31 - the last 3 remaining people who were inside Liebig 14 have been released.

13:15 - at least 15 more persons are in custody, an unknown number are summoned before the judge right now.

There's a city tour at 15:30 - "The Traces of Resistance / After-Demolition-Demo-Tour" (start: Revaler Ecke Warschauer Straße), to look at the effects of last night's actions.



Solidarity actions:

Landshut - Banners have been hung over a bridge.

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Internet - some people apparently "hacked" low-profile webpages of (as it seems) mostly self-employed, totally unrelated and even sympathetic people to position a solidarity message. Couldn't get into the government's pages could they?

Frankfurt - some 20 masked protesters on the street yesterday.

addendum to Hamburg - according to police reports, 5 banks have been attacked, as well as 2 storefronts, and 4 cops are injured.


what other squats are they trying to take down right now? rigaer94 has the same owner and has been under threat in the past (present?) yeah? thanks for all the updates, stay strong out there. wir bleiben alle!

Pretty much every squat has been under threat in the past / present.

Köpi in Berlin is being / has been inspected today by officials to determine the value of the property (afaik). Also in Berlin, Rigaer 94 and Kreutziger 18 have been reportedly harassed/sieged during the eviction yesterday. But so far no eviction has been ordered for either.

In Hamburg things look a bit more dire. The long running autonomous center Rote Flora might be evicted at the end of March / start of April when it's usage contract runs out (the property owner talked about using it as a commercial culture center) - or rather, they may try! Zomia, a trailer park established last year (Hamburg's only trailer park after they were banned for being a "threat to public order"), also has a usage contract running out at the end of April - eviction very possible.

[Widerstand]

Berlin:

A fake bomb which brought down parts of Berlin's public transport yesterday has been claimed by "Die Menschen in eine Position zu handeln AG, die diskordischen Kampfgruppen
sowie die Vereinigung diskordischer Päpste" as a Liebig 14 solidarity action.

Today in the early morning there was a barricade of burning car wheels at Treptower Park with the aim of disrupting work traffic.

Also in the morning: attacks on a loft at Michaelskichplatz, using stones and paint.

15:10 - attacks on high class art galleries in Schiererstraße yesterday have been reported as a Liebig 14 solidarity action

15:16 - stone and paint attacks against a LKA building (federal state police) have been in solidarity with Liebig 14, but also as part of a series of militant attacks against state and capital (see Action Black Cat attack earlier, for example, which's press statement addressed immigrant and class issues and amongst others)

15:27 - large mass of cops at Warschauerstr. location of the city tour

15:33 reports that yesterday the Schloßstr. Center in Steglitz/Friedenau has been attacked with paint and stones

15:45 tour to start in 5 minutes!

Solidarity:

another addendum to Hamburg - 2 people have been arrested for property damage and "breaching state peace" (Landfriedensbruch)

Potsdam: bus stops were damaged, various solidarity graffitis, burning wastebins

Düsseldorf - 60 ppl were on the street

[ed miliband]

In the last 10 minutes the Guardian have started reporting on this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/03/clashes-berlin-commune-eviction-liebig14

[Widerstand]

Berlin Police Report:

82 arrests, 61 injured cops, attacks on police stations, banks, supermarkets, O2 World, the Liegenschaftsfond, Ostbahnhof (trainstation east), car seller, two shopping malls, fashion stores, office buildings, street lamps, the BSR, public transport bus, cars, a telephone box, and a electricity box.

[Widerstand]

City Tour Update:

16:03 - cops stopped the tour at Warschauer Str.
16:06 - cops demand that a demonstration is registered
16:11 - city tour can finally walk, 40 people showed up

[Widerstand]

wowah, couple of updates:

Berlin

city tour finished without much hassle. they took some pics from Wednesday's damage, some of them below:
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solidarity streetart:
http://l14soli.blogsport.de/images/IMG_0496.jpg
http://linksunten.indymedia.org/image/33359.jpg
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20:08 - 7 people controlled at Frankfurter Allee
around 20:00 - 20 to 30 people gathered for picketing at Dorfplatz (place in front of L14)
between 20:00 and 23:00 - luxury loft in Prenzlauer Berg had it's windows smashed and a Coca-Colo promotion car infront of it got burned
http://l14soli.blogsport.de/images/liebig14randalen_2843776.jpg
around 23:00 - all but one person have been released from custody; the person in question has to stay in custody for at least 2 weeks
after 23:00 - Another solidarity action:
http://l14soli.blogsport.de/images/liebigwut1_2844716.jpg
between 23:00 and 02:00 - paint attacks and banner at Storkower Str. station
2:17 - black clad people at Friedrichshain are being controlled and searched

Solidarity:

Saale - demo with 40 people, solidarity with Liebig 14 and the especially the jailed comrade

Oslo - demo in front of the German embassy, riot police blocked the street
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Erfurt - 30 ppl with flyers and fireworks

Munich - solidarity action with Liebig 14 and Kafe Marat (has been repeatedly raided by police, also on the day of eviction)
picture:
http://media.de.indymedia.org/images/2011/02/299484.jpg

Hamburg - banner hung out of a vacant building, claimed in solidarity with Liebig 14 and Rote Flora; a second solidarity demo for Liebig 14 has been announced for 20:00 in front of Rote Flora
pic of banner:
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/364/img9429f.jpg

[Widerstand]

Berlin:

Nightly attack against the state's institution for unemployed people, windows smashed and spray paint for L14!

14:10 - Berlin Newspaper reports more than 1 Million property damage, not counting the cost for police.

14:44 - new squat in Boxhagener / Holteistr. around 40 people

14:59 - around 40 people in front of the squat

15:08 - 60 people in front of the squad, cops arrive

15:16 - Political rally announced for 20:00 (Revaler/Warschauerstr)

15:24 - around 30 people at the squat, cop transporters driving by

15:36 - cops sealed off the house, banned the people in front of it from the area of Friedrichshain

15:53 - large cop force moves from Kreuzberg to Friedrichshain

16:17 - cops control/search people around the area of the squat

Solidarity:

Hamburg - Solidarity demo is now definitely at 19:00 (Gänsemarkt)

Bremen - 80 people solidarity demo, various windows smashed and attacked with paint

Tübingen - 50-70 people demo in solidarity with L14 and other evicted projects, blocked off a heavy-traffic street, various spray paint actions

[Widerstand]

Berlin

early thursday night: paintbombs at KDW and Schöneberger Rathaus (Schöneberg Town Hall);
Junge Union (CDU youth) office got it's windows smashed and suffered paint attacks;
Old hospital in Neuköln got squatted, squatters left before cops arrived

17:25 - 10 cops entered Liebig 15, motive unknown
17:42 - cops got thrown out of Liebig 15 by residents threatening to sue them
17:53 - an attack from 02.02. is reported, bank got smashed
18:04 - another BAFA got smashed and paintbombed
18:58 - cops at Frankfurter Tor with eviction tank and lights
19:15 - cop transporters, eviction tank and light vehicle moving
20:26 - around 150 people at the Dorfplatz gathering, massive police controls in and around the area
20:34 - around 200 people
20:58 - people start splitting away
21:03 - gathering officially disbanded
21:10 - cops search people around Boxhagener
21:16 - cops ban people around Mainzer Str./Frankfurter
21:20 - cops search backyards around Dorfplatz


Solidarity

Hamburg - a freshly renovated house in Wilhelmsburg (the district of town which is getting most aggressively gentrified right now) got paintbombed and spray painted. One of the messages reads: "one struggle, one fight! köpi, zomia, flora bleibt!";
Solidemo in Hamburg was strong. around 150 people gathered at Gänsemarkt and marched through the inner city shopping district with lots of pyrotech, built barricades, attacked store fronts and construction sites; town hall window got smashed! when police arrived the demo split up, one arrest, some got banned from the inner city area; the demo then regrouped in front of the Rote Flora and then went on to Reeperbahn and Altona, where they had street fights with police (some people spoke about a starting pistol being shot at cops) and did more property damage.

Straubing - various arsons and spray paint

Wittenberg - an evicted building got (re-)squatted, various banners throughout the city, and a graffiti reading: L14 BLEIBT - ONE STRUGGLE ONE FIGHT; police chased some of the squatters, but all of them got away. they hired a private security company to protect the house. awesome action!

Greifswald - various solidarity spray paints

Aue - 6 people at solidarity demo

Osnabrück - various banners

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Eine Million Ist Nicht Genug! Wir Bleiben Alle!

(one million is not enough! all of us stay!)

[Red Commissar]

Anything happen so far in the past week?

[Widerstand]

Recently:

Addresses of the company who is right now removing furniture and other "waste" from Liebig 14 have been posted online with a call to "inspect them at night."

There was another solidarity demo (Liebig, Kopi, Flora bleibt - one struggle one fight!) in Hamburg, yesterday, which didn't go very far I'm afraid. Lots of civil clothed cops, no concept, no banners, very few people, and announcement on Facebook (seriously wtf ?????). Tons of cops in riot gear with support of BFE and USK were waiting just one street away from the demo's starting location, which got attacked as soon as it tried to march into the inner city. The demo then split up and police cars were seen chasing towards the Schanze (area in which the Flora is located). Nothing happened there though.

Dated 5th of February:

There were street fights in Copenhagen in front of Ungdomshuset (http://vimeo.com/19580486). According to reports, police got attacked with stones, molotov cocktails and bottles. Police couldn't identify any attacker but checked the identity of everyone in the house.

Berlin: A couple of BVG ticket machines (public transport) were destroyed, a Vattenfall service vehicle got it's windows smashed (Vattenfall is one of Germany's top nuclear power producers), a couple of storefronts and car windows got smashed in other parts of the city:

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-kurier/foto/_img/foto/liebig_14-_hat_koerting_krawall-gefahr_verpennt/liebig_14-_hat_koerting_krawall-gefahr_verpennt-176.jpg

From the 6th of February:

Another solidarity demo in Bremen, a bank and some advertisement blocks got attacked.

Berlin: More storefronts smashed. The "Kinderschutzbund" (child protection association) got attacked with sprays calling for impeachment of it's manager Edwin Thöne, one of those responsible for the eviction of Liebig 14 (through which several non-adults became homeless).