Overview
- Police estimated about 8,000 participants and deployed roughly 500 officers, reporting only isolated pyrotechnics and no injuries.
- The procession moved from Frankfurter Tor along Frankfurter Allee to the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde for the annual commemoration.
- A construction site at the cemetery entrance had threatened the route until the Lichtenberg district approved provisional fence adjustments.
- Leaders of Die Linke, including Ines Schwerdtner, Jan van Aken and Berlin lead candidate Elif Eralp, took part and laid flowers at the memorial.
- Pro‑Palestinian and communist groups marched, including a block from the United Palestinian National Committee, which the domestic intelligence service identifies as Hamas‑supporting, contrasting with clashes and 31 arrests reported in 2025.