The unrest took place in the central district of Mitte in the German capital, where some 2,000 people expressed their anger at the squat’s closure Some 1,900 officers were deployed to the area and said that they were regularly bombarded with stones, bottles and firecrackers
Several cars were set on fire and property vandalized in what German media described as the actions of a splinter group, which split from the main protest to wreak havoc
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The violence was sparked by the eviction of a radical left-wing squat in the neighboring district of Friedrichshain Named after its location in Liebigstrasse 34 It had served as the home of a commune of an anarcha-queer collective -self-proclaimed feminist since the 1990s
The collective’s stay became undesirable at the end of 2018, after the house’s lease expired A court ruled in mid-September that the group could be evicted The police arrived on Friday morning to enforce the order, sending some 1,500 officers gathered from several German states for the operation
Despite resistance from the occupiers, who barricaded themselves, the police gained access and forced 57 people to leave Demonstrations after the eviction also took place in Friedrichshain, but unlike their counterparts in Mitte, they are mostly remained peaceful
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