Overview
- Officers entered at dawn using rams and cutting tools to overcome double‑barricaded doors, searching 13 apartments and recording 26 identities.
- About 700 police were deployed citywide to secure potential targets including the Landgericht and the owner’s offices, and those found in the building were allowed to remain.
- Search warrants were issued by the Amtsgericht Tiergarten at the owner’s request as the Landgericht Berlin II plans to hear multiple eviction suits in September.
- Police reported heavily fortified access points and interior modifications such as breached walls, prompting specialist teams to force entry.
- Later in the day a solidarity march was curtailed after rooftop fireworks were launched; police say pyrotechnics hit near officers and damaged a bystander’s clothing, and investigations continue.