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OVG Berlin-Brandenburg Rejects Police Appeal, Finalizes Ruling on Protest 'Pain Grip'

The decision underscores strict proportionality limits on police use of nerve-pressure techniques during protest removals.

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In der juristischen Auseinandersetzung um die Zulässigkeit von Schmerzgriffen hat die Berliner Polizei eine Niederlage erlitten. Die Berufung der Behörde gegen ein Urteil des Berliner Verwaltungsgerichts wurde vom OVG Berlin-Brandenburg abgewiesen.

Overview

  • The higher administrative court denied the Berlin police request for leave to appeal, leaving the lower court ruling in place.
  • The ruling is final and closes the proceedings with no further legal remedies available to the police.
  • A March 2025 administrative court judgment had found nerve-pressure holds generally permissible but disproportionate in this specific case.
  • The case involved a then 21-year-old Letzte Generation activist who glued himself during an April 2023 sit-in on Straße des 17. Juni near the Brandenburg Gate.
  • The court said police merely disagreed with the lower court’s assessment and failed to show factual errors or arbitrariness that would justify an appeal.