Last Friday night was probably one of the best nights of the year. While earlier the eviction of the Köpi-Wagenplatz by a huge amount of cops had caused a feeling of helplessness, the night was quite the opposite.
Several thousand people took to the streets of Kreuzberg and expressed their anger in a self-determined way. Everything went well; the cops couldn’t get their lines in place, wild demonstrations broke out on all sides, the cops and their cars were overwhelmed, property managers, trendy cafes and hotels took their toll.
It was encouraging to see that so many people were willing to create uncontrollable moments to make them all pay for eviction of Köpi Platz. With this magical feeling in our stomachs and a smile on our faces, we used the rest of the night to hammer out the windows of the Covivo offices on Pariser Straße in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. As Europe’s fourth largest real estate company, Covivo is involved in all kinds of filth, from co-working, co-living, furnished accommodation, hotels and its 42,000 residential units in Berlin. At the moment of impact, an alarm system went off, which probably alerted the oncoming sirens – but we were long gone by then…
In solidarity with the comrades of Köpi Wagenplatz and with the arrested people! Greetings to the Le Marbré squat in Paris, threatened with eviction!
