About two dozen activists broke into the site of the former “Köpi” car park on Köpenicker Strasse in Mitte on Friday evening and declared that the area was being occupied again.
About 20 to 30 left-wing autonomous have penetrated the fences on the cordoned-off property. They set off pyrotechnics, played loud music and gave speeches over loudspeakers.
Hundreds of police officers are on site, but it is still peaceful. Köpenicker Strasse is completely closed.
The scene initiative “Køpi stays” published a statement on the Internet that evening, which said: “We are here to reclaim what is ours.”
The car space had only been vacated last October. For many years, dozens of women and men lived in camping and construction trailers on the area next to the house “Köpi 137” inhabited by autonomous people.
Now the area is one big construction site, with containers, rubble and excavators.
In their statement, the occupiers accuse the new owner of the area of deliberately not building on it, but leaving it fallow for speculation.
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