Overview
- Police in Berlin dissolved a gathering of up to 800 after tram tracks were blocked and participants used pyrotechnics, chanted banned slogans, and threw bottles and stones.
- Berlin’s tally includes 80 people temporarily detained, 61 criminal complaints and ten injured officers, with investigations opened for serious breach of the peace, resistance, attacks on officers, property damage, banned symbols, and explosives‑law violations.
- Earlier the same day in Berlin, activists poured paint on the entrance of the Foreign Office and graffitied the facade; four suspects were detained and later re‑arrested after returning to a rally.
- In Innsbruck roughly 1,000 people marched in a registered demonstration where pyrotechnics were set off and forbidden slogans were reported, and three participants were briefly detained.
- A police spokesperson in Berlin said the force protects the right to assemble neutrally and criticized violent groups, as reporting linked the protests to Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.