Left-wing autonomists in Berlin: six months after the Köpi eviction: the activists are back – politics
“We won’t let ourselves be expelled”: The Köpi activists on Köpenicker Strasse in Berlin want to recapture the area. The police arrived.
Berlin – Exactly six months after the “Köpi” camp in Berlin-Mitte was cleared, several activists broke into the area on Friday evening.
“We won’t be driven out,” they shouted. Numerous police officers were on duty to get them back from the square. The Köpi activists wrote on Twitter in the evening: “The area was empty for speculation for half a year. Now we’re here to bring it back. (…)”
According to the police, the operation on Köpenicker Straße lasted several hours. Shortly after 4 a.m., the area was completely cleared, said a police spokesman. The police initially did not comment on the number of activists on the site and on the arrests made. The Köpi activists stated on Twitter that several people had been arrested.
The “Köpi-Platz” wagon camp was considered one of the last symbolic projects of the left-wing autonomous scene in Berlin. On October 15 last year, the police cleared it with heavy equipment. The property owner had fought for the eviction, in which hundreds of police officers were involved, in court. The residents live in trailers next to an old building that has been occupied since 1990.