A protester in glitter jumpsuits dances to electronic music while taking part in the dance demo ‘Who Owns the City? – against club deaths, displacement through gentrification”. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Annette Riedl
From BZ/dpa
According to the organizers, several thousand people joined a dance demo in Berlin on Saturday afternoon under the motto “Who owns the city”.
The police initially spoke of 700 demonstrators. Six cars with electronic music and booming basses pulled from the Frankfurter Tor in Friedrichshain via Alexanderplatz to the Südstern in Kreuzberg.
The organizers from the Berlin club and event industry fear that because of the continued construction of the city highway 100 at Ostkreuz, clubs that are located on the route will die. “We demand that the new Senate maintain freedom and unconventional culture. Repression and concreting in Berlin is not a law of nature, but politics,” said a spokesman for the initiative. Numerous symbolic skyscrapers could be seen on the colorfully decorated music floats.
Other topics of the demonstration were misanthropy through racism and homophobia as well as housing policy.
“We will remind all parties to implement the successful referendum “Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen and Co.”, the alliance wrote on its website. According to the police, the dance demo was initially peaceful and without disturbances.