Overview
- Police closed the motorway between Treptower Park and the Neukölln interchange for under an hour after a protester climbed a sign bridge near the Hatun-Sürücü-Brücke.
- Specialist heights-rescue officers removed the man; he and a woman believed to be a supporter were taken into custody and identified.
- State security became involved as police opened investigations on suspicion of interference with road traffic and issued place bans.
- Neue Generation described the Berlin action as part of a nationwide protest wave with demonstrations reported in Halle (Saale), Leipzig, Munich, Kassel, Potsdam and on Pellworm.
- The group displayed banners reading “Wir rasen in den Faschismus – #MerzMafia” and cast the day as an opening protest ahead of mid-April ‘Revolution Days’ and a third ‘Parlament der Menschen’.