In Berlin, the police are planning to evacuate the left-hand car camp “Köpi”. The residents announce resistance.
Berlin – In the capital, the police are preparing to evacuate the left-wing autonomous camp “Köpi”. In the early morning, numerous emergency services and heavy equipment were brought together in preparation. According to consistent media reports, numerous police cars and armored vehicles were seen in Berlin. A total of around 2000 officials are on site.
In response to this, several demonstrations formed in the morning. According to the police, three rallies were registered on the occasion of the “Köpi” eviction in Berlin. The left-wing autonomous camp is to be evacuated on Friday morning. The residents on the site have announced resistance and protested from inside by megaphone. The police reported in the morning that cars and buildings were damaged in the vicinity of the camp on Friday night. Previously, several hundred people had demonstrated, largely peacefully, in the nearby Berlin district of Kreuzberg on Thursday evening.
Berlin: Left wagon camp before evacuation – It is considered a symbolic project
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. Around 30 people live in construction trailers on the approximately 2,600 square meter property, next to a house occupied in 1990 on the former strip of the wall. The property owner successfully sued for eviction in June with reference to a building permit. The Berlin Court of Justice rejected an urgent application by the residents to stop the foreclosure on Wednesday (October 13, 2021).
The police had cordoned off the area around the project on Thursday. Objects were thrown from the grounds of the car camp, said a police spokeswoman. For their part, the residents had reinforced the fence around the site in the past few days. One will not give up without a fight, it was said last week.
Protests against “Köpi” eviction in Berlin – police report riot
Hundreds of supporters of the “Köpi” demonstrated against the eviction in Berlin-Mitte and Friedrichshain last weekend. In the past few nights, garbage cans and tires were set on fire in the area several times. On Wednesday morning strangers damaged the glazing of the entrance doors at the citizens’ office in the Mitte district and sprayed “Köpi remains” on the building. A large rear building 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.
How the situation will develop after the evacuation is difficult to predict. The resistance to the evacuation of the occupied house “Liebig 34” in Berlin Friedrichshain in October 2020 was much smaller than on similar occasions before. During a fire protection test in the occupied house “Rigaer 94” in Berlin in June, however, violent riots broke out. (slo / dpa)
