Berlin Police Arrest Several at 1,000-Person Nakba Rally After Attacks on Officers and Press
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Updated · DW (English) · May 16
Berlin Police Arrest Several at 1,000-Person Nakba Rally After Attacks on Officers and Press
3 articles · Updated · DW (English) · May 16
Several suspects were arrested in Berlin's Hasenheide area after police said marchers at a Nakba Day rally attacked officers and members of the press.
Police said the arrests followed repeated attacks from within the procession and the chanting of "forbidden slogans" during the agreed march route through Kreuzberg.
Authorities did not specify the slogans, but the phrase "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is often contested in Germany, with courts split on whether it is prosecutable.
About 1,000 people had registered for the pro-Palestinian rally, with roughly the same number of police deployed and a counterprotest by Zionist Alliance Berlin also planned.
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