So a few days ago german police cleared a house that was occupied by far left anarchists who had been there for 3 decades. The action drew a lot of attention.

Average squatters are known to be radical but that's nothing compared to the people that occupied this particular building who describe themselves as "anarcha-queer-feminists".

In total 1500 police were on duty to deal with this, they had to force their way into the heavily barricaded building with chainsaws and crow bars before they could finally drag these far left radicals out of the building.

https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-police-clear-anarchist-occupied-house-liebig-34/a-55211590

I always find it funny that people calling others privileged think they have the privilege to occupy other people's real estate and claim it for themselves, lol

What do our fellow PARDians make of this.

In Australia they would own that property.

If you steal something long enough its yours?

So you think that's ok? How'd you feel if they pick your house as their next target, vandalize it top to bottom with graffiti, barricade it and claim it's theirs now? LMK

Correct, we have squatters rights, i personally oppose them but if you have a permanent residence for long enough uncontested by law it becomes yours.


I would have them turfed out immediately.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Oct 11 2020 12:43pm

Nothing new really, shit like this has been going on in Berlin for decades. The only surprising thing about this story is that the police was actually allowed to go through with the eviction.
Berlin has always had a very large and strong leftist activist scene. This dates back to the Cold War, when the city was divided and West Berlin was a haven for the squatter and anarchist scenes because of its isolation and no one giving a fuck.

Nowadays, Berlin also has a ton of upscale limousine liberals on top. And lots of government employees, political consultants, media people, artists, and so on. Imagine a blend between Portland, San Francisco and Washington DC, all wrapped into one city. Berlin is the German equivalent to this city.

That's basically how all property was acquired lol

Nice lol but why 1500 cops for this one building?

Because there's a huge activist scene in Berlin which is willing to get violent, and which was absolutely furious about the closing down of this house since it was a major symbol for them. With insufficient forces, the police would have risked getting ambushed by activists from all over the city while they're trying to clear the house. They needed overwhelming numbers to deter any such antics. The scene instead rioted in the streets the following night, smashing a lot of windows and burning down a couple of random cars.

Pretty much.