Over 10000 protesters in Berlin gathered in Neukölln, demanding an immediate reversal to the overturning of a court ruling abolishing the Mietendeckel, a rent cap set to stop high prices and gentrification in the city. Police assaulted several demonstrators but were overpowered by the crowd and forced to retreat in due time.
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Around 1500 protesters returned to the streets of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin, demonstrating against the eviction of the Meuterei cooperative, one of the last affordable bars in the city and a place of leftist organization in the FH-KB area of Berlin.
Around 2000 protesters in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin marched against the eviction of the Meuteri cooperative, one of the last affordable bars in the city and a place of leftist organization in the FH-KB area of Berlin. Police attacked the demonstration near the end of the march's course, making several brutal arrests and attacking random people.
Around 1500 protesters in Stuttgart marched in solidarity with anarchist and communist political prisoners in Germany, highlighting the case of a student called Lina in her 20s who has been detained for months by the German government for her activist background.
Dozens of protesters in Frankfurt gathered at the Greek embassy in the German city in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction by the government of the communist prisoner's request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison.
Around 300 protesters in Frankfurt marched after a 19-year-old Iraqi refugee died in a hospital after being arrested for possession of marijuana. While in custody, Qosay Sadam Khalaf "collapsed" in his cell and was taken to a hospital, where he ended up dying. Police attacked the demonstration, kicking and punching protesters without provocation.
Anarchists in Dresden protested in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate government satisfaction of the former 17 November member's request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Anarchists in Berlin protested inside the offices of broadcaster Deutsche Welle, demanding that the German media group cover the ongoing Koufontinas hunger strike which has been mostly ignored by media groups outside of Greece.
Dozens of protesters in the city of Leipzig in Germany took to the streets in a flash demonstration in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, breaking windows and tagging graffiti at the Connewitz police station and dispersing without detection.
Over 400 protesters in Berlin marched in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the acceptance of the former 17N member's request to return to his old cell in the Korydallos prison where he will once again be able to see his family.
Anarchists in Berlin occupied the Greek embassy in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the left-wing revolutionary group 17 November who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Over 20,000 protesters in Berlin marched after the first anniversary of the Hanau Massacre, in which 11 people were killed by a far-right winger. Demonstrators waved antifascist flags and carried banners against the extreme right, vowing never to allow the seeds of hatred to grow in Germany again.
Around 1000 protesters took to the streets in 3 sites across Berlin on the 1st anniversary of the Hanau Massacre, a mass shooting perpetrated by a member of the far-right who targeted shisha bars and murdered 11 people.
Anarchists in Berlin launched an arson attack in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike against a van belonging to the Hertz company, which has worked with the Greek police in recent months and supplied them with vehicles.
Protesters in Berlin gathered in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of 17 November who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.