Overview
- Berlin’s assembly authority tightened protest rules after a staged execution at Alexanderplatz drew heavy criticism.
- The new conditions explicitly ban any reenactment of killing acts at demonstrations across the city.
- Participants may not bring items that depict violence, and no one may be tied up or otherwise restrained at a rally.
- Under the updated rules, police are empowered to stop violent portrayals and can dissolve a gathering if needed.
- Police did not open a criminal case over the Alexanderplatz scene, which showed four men in white suits under a mock gallows and was filmed by a Berliner Zeitung reporter.