Overview
- Police cleared a 12-person blockade at Rheinmetall’s Berlin facility after a heights-rescue team removed a protester from a tree.
- Officers detached activists who had glued themselves to the ground and fence after two participants left on their own.
- About 70 police took part in the operation and lifted the Scheringstraße road closure once the scene was secured around 11:40 a.m.
- Police issued trespass orders and opened cases for coercion and resisting, detained three people, and said one would go before a judge.
- The group Peacefully Against Genocide said it led the action to oppose new large-caliber munitions output planned for midyear, in what police called the fourth similar protest at the Wedding plant, and officers are also probing whether three media workers coordinated with activists.