Overview
- Die Linke’s Treptow–Köpenick branch circulated flyers naming Apollo News’s address and urging locals to “step on the keys” to make the outlet leave the neighborhood.
- At a district event, local chair Moritz Warnke and Belltower/Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung speaker Kira Ayyadi discussed measures such as pressuring the landlord, staging demonstrations, and coordinating actions via a new working group.
- Linke politician Lorenz Gösta Beutin publicly lauded the flyer on X and dismissed criticism, and requests for a formal response from party officials went unanswered in reporting.
- Apollo News editor Max Mannhart reported threats and vandalism at the newsroom, said he contacted Berlin’s mayor Kai Wegner, and indicated the team is considering further protective steps.
- Condemnations included FDP vice chair Wolfgang Kubicki calling the flyer a call to violence, the DJU at ver.di labeling it an attack on press freedom, and the DJV offering no public statement so far.