Overview

• The confrontation occurred Sunday in Berlin-Wedding at a rally against a planned Rheinmetall production change, where Cem Ince says he attended as a parliamentary observer, a designation police say carries no special legal status.
• Police allege Ince struck an officer multiple times in or toward the head, detained him for an identity check, then released him as a bodily harm investigation proceeds.
• Ince denies the accusation, alleges he was punched by officers, reports facial and neck injuries, and has filed a criminal complaint against an identified policeman.
• A police evidence and documentation unit filmed the incident, and a separate video circulating on X shows the arrest but not how the altercation began.
• Separately, Berlin’s LKA is reviewing an allegation that Linke politician Lea Reisner was struck by an officer during a different protest the same weekend.