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Status: May 15, 2025 8:54 p.m.

In Berlin-Kreuzberg there have been violent clashes between propalestinian demonstrators and the police. There have been additionally a number of arrests. About a thousand individuals had gathered to commemorate the Nakba.

During an indication on the event of the Palestinian Memorial Day Nakba on the Südstern in Berlin-Kreuzberg, violent clashes between individuals and the police occurred on Thursday night. A police spokesman informed the RBB.

In the night there was discuss of round 30 arrests. The police additionally spoke of bottle throws and a stone’s throw. According to the police, an official was severely injured. He was torn into the group by aggressive demonstrators and trampled down, mentioned police spokesman Florian Nath.

Other cops have been injured that at the least one in every of them had been discovered on the hand of at the least one in every of them.

Around 8 p.m. it was mentioned that the meeting was now being dissolved by the police.

Archive image: A participant of the demonstration of various Palestinian groups runs with an oversized cardboard key through Neukölln on May 15, 2023.

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Police put water cannons in place

It was seen in photos how cops tried to push again demonstrators with helmets. The police additionally positioned water cannons. Participants tried to kind an elevator regardless of the ban and knotted their clear, amongst different issues. The water cannons rolled on to dam a attainable operating route.

The police spoke of a complete of 1,100 demonstrators. In loud and aggressive speech choirs, audio system and demonstrators referred to as “Children’s Murderer Israel, women’s murderer Israel, Baby Dollection Israel”, “Yallah, Yallah Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea”.

A second Pro-Palestinian demonstration, which was to happen on Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg, was canceled. According to the speaker, 35 individuals have been counted in a pro-Israeli counter-demonstration.

Legal Argument To protest

“Nakba 77” was initially deliberate as a protest, which the police prohibited on Wednesday. The administrative courtroom agreed to an objection by the organizers, however the Higher Administrative Court once more collected the choice.

The Palestinian Memory Day Nakba On May fifteenth, reminds of flight and displacement of a whole lot of 1000’s of Palestinians within the first Middle East War in 1948 after the founding of Israel. In latest years there have been a number of tumults and wrangling with the police at these occasions.

Broadcast: RBB24 night present, May fifteenth, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

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