Overview

• About 200–300 demonstrators answered calls under “Gegen rechte Hetze” to block the Skalitzer Straße entrance with “Nazis raus” signs
• Thorsten Weiß and Alexander Bertram framed their visit as an inspection of crime and cleanliness under the slogan “Görlitzer Park – Schandfleck eines kapitulierenden Staates”
• Police escorted the AfD legislators along an alternate route and intervened in isolated scuffles, arresting one person who spat at a politician
• Construction staging for the €30 million fencing was erected in late June, and Environment Senator Ute Bonde says foundation work is the next scheduled phase
• Grassroots activists contend the fence displaces drug and violence issues into surrounding neighborhoods and call instead for prevention programs and supervised consumption rooms