Overview
- Police say the turnstile and its rotation mechanism were removed from an entrance on Görlitzer Straße between Thursday 18:00 and Friday 8:30 and the theft was discovered by a construction worker on Friday morning.
- The newly mounted gate had been secured with construction fences, and searches by contractor staff and officers did not recover the missing parts.
- The Landeskriminalamt’s State Protection unit has assumed the case to assess a possible political motive, and no suspects have been identified publicly.
- The fence project calls for 16 steel gates, eight large turnstiles described as vandalism‑resistant, and roughly 300 meters of additional barriers, with completion targeted by year’s end.
- Authorities say the enclosure is intended to enable nightly closures to curb drug dealing and crime, while activist groups, district Greens and residents oppose the plan, and the ‘Görli 24/7’ initiative mocked the theft online after previously warning contractors.