Left-autonomous Wagenburg project
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Police start “Köpi” eviction in Berlin-Mitte
The police started the evacuation of the left-wing autonomous “Köpi” car camp in Berlin-Mitte with heavy equipment. Policemen drove up to the barrier with an evacuation tank and tried to open the fence with cutting torches.
– The evacuation operation started after the bailiff’s arrival
– Police are using tanks and tractors
– People on the “Köpi” site are tied to trees
The evacuation of the left-wing autonomous car camp “Köpi” in Berlin-Mitte began shortly after 10 o’clock on Friday. Policemen drove up to the camp fence with clearing armor and welded the metal plates. According to observations by rbb reporters, chainsaws have also been used. At the same time, ladders have been placed on the fence. According to observers, officials tried to overcome him.
The police have pulled together a large contingent around Köpenicker Strasse for the evacuation. After the responsible bailiff arrived according to rbb information, the police immediately started the evacuation operation. Residents on the site resisted.
Around 100 supporters of the “Köpi” came to three registered rallies on Friday from 5 a.m. on the area cordoned off by the police, the police said. According to observations by rbb reporters, “Köpi” supporters have climbed trees in the Wagenburg area and tied themselves up. Loudspeaker announcements from the camp area indicated that the use of clearing armor would endanger the lives of these people. Safety ropes could break and trees could fall over as a result, according to observers. “We cannot confirm this. So far, we only know the pictures from social media,” said police spokeswoman Anha Dierschke rbb | 24.
Relatively quiet night
According to the police, it was relatively quiet on Friday night before the action. As a police spokesman announced on Friday morning, some cars went up in flames in the vicinity of Köpenicker Strasse. He put this at four to five in an initial balance sheet. In Kreuzberg, strangers smashed car windows on Ritterstrasse and threw paint bags on houses. According to the police, three scooters were set on fire in the Liebigstrasse area. There were also some burning rubble containers.
The residents and supporters called for disturbances in the “Red Zone” on Thursday. Around 500 participants demonstrated on Thursday evening for the maintenance of the left-wing alternative camp. A policewoman was slightly injured by throwing a bottle, the spokesman said. In addition, pyrotechnics and smoke pots were ignited in the demonstration train. The demo ended at the intersection of Bethaniendamm and Köpenicker Strasse, where bars and a police van blocked the way into the “Red Zone”.
Police cordon off the streets around “Köpi-Platz”
Disputes with residents are expected
The police secured the area around Köpenicker Straße until early Friday morning with a correspondingly large contingent. For the clearance operation on Friday, 700 additional forces from the federal territory and the federal police were requested to support, the spokesman continued. According to the information, a total of 2,000 officials in the area of Köpenicker Strasse and other unspecified locations in Berlin are on duty. The assessment of the risk situation runs until shortly before the start of the mission.
The car camp on a site on Köpenicker Strasse is considered to be one of the last symbolic projects of the left-wing scene in Berlin. The owner successfully sued for eviction in June with reference to a building permit. An urgent application from the residents to stop the foreclosure the Berlin Court of Appeal dismissed on Wednesday.
In the past few days, the residents had additionally secured the approximately 2,600 square meter site with a fence up to four meters high and barbed wire. One will not give up without a fight, it was said last week.
The back of the Köpi building is not to be cleared
Hundreds of supporters of the “Köpi” demonstrated in Mitte and Friedrichshain last weekend. In the past few nights, garbage cans and tires were set on fire in the area several times. Wednesday morning strangers damaged the glazing of the entrance doors at the Bürgeramt in Berlin-Mitte and sprayed the slogan “Köpi stays” on the building
A large rear building also belongs to “Köpi”, but it should not be cleared. The building on the strip of the Wall in East Berlin was occupied in 1990, the year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In addition to apartments on the upper floors, there is a concert room, a climbing wall, a small sports hall and a cinema in the basement and the lower floors. According to the residents’ association, around 30 people live on the adjacent property with old construction trailers.
It is difficult to predict how the situation will develop after the evacuation. The resistance to the evacuation of the occupied house “Liebig 34” in Friedrichshain in October 2020 was much smaller than on similar occasions before. During a fire protection test in the partially occupied house “Rigaer 94” in June, however, there was a violent attack on the police.
Broadcast: Inforadio, October 15, 2021, 6:00 a.m.
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