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Neue Generation Protest Briefly Shuts Berlin’s A100 as Police Remove Climber

The action served as the kickoff to a coordinated campaign the group plans to escalate in April.

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’.