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Last weekend was a demonstration against the eviction of Liebig, 14 "self-governing" home in the eastern part of Berlin, which ended in riots. Then, 40 police were injured, 17 protesters were arrested. It was the first sign ...

A Feb. 2 from various media channels began to penetrate disturbing news that the Berlin police arrested 9 people, barricaded in an old 5-storey house in the district of Friedrichshain, in the street Libigshtrasse. This house is occupied by an informal youth commune in 1990 and exists on the principles of self-government.

The official media have different names with the obvious negative connotation and the same content.For the unprepared, with washed brains of democracy, everyman distant Berlin squatters utter bastards, and the police - the heroes. For us, this phenomenon is different. We may have different attitudes to western squatters. Someone wants to be in their ranks and looking for any migration path, someone finds a way to be wrong because Western society zazhralis and his protest frozen in time, and here and here revraboty a great deal.Different attitude, however, does not detract from what has happened. What happened next ...

20 years ago they occupied an old building in the capital, nobody touched, until he has a new owner who wants it demolished, apparently had this plot of land the prestigious Berlin its business plan.

Around this building, which for someone in a social-cultural experiment, for someone - a house, but for others - an expensive piece of land in the German capital, erupted litigation in connection with the fact that the forgotten for twenty years building a new owner. A few days ago, police have tried to take this house on a court order of eviction.

On Saturday, January 30, police conducted an operation of eviction, which was attended by 650 cops.To protect the house came about 1000 demonstrators. Masked men threw bottles at police and stones, even fired their rockets from Christmas, they threw firecrackers at them, and used laser pointers to blind the enemy. And, like the good old medieval enemy poured water from the windows! On this day, 40 police were injured.Most of the policemen escaped with minor injuries, but two had to be hospitalized. 32 demonstrators were arrested, including nine residents were arrested on charges of violating public order and causing bodily injury.

Assault on the building lasted for about 5 hours. In the morning the street was cordoned off. The police tried to enter the building, armed with axes. Climb into the building also wanted a roof, but this has not succeeded. Besieged firmly blocked all the doors and balconies.They chanted: "We're staying here!" But residents of nearby houses chanted: "Stop the evictions," "Liebig remains." The police again were flying bottles.

In response, police used water cannons. In the afternoon, the dust settled, the support group was dispersed, the police got to the ringleaders. In total, the operation involved about 2,500 cops.

Get into the house was not easy. First, break through the crowd, defending the approaches with drums and banners.Barricaded inside a 9 Communards strengthened doors with iron sheets on the landings of the lattice and put water-filled bathtub, cut the electrical cables that attackers could include grinders. However, the police came from the rear, extending into the neighbor's house through the attic, we had to use axes, saws and rams ...

Upon completion of the eviction by the house a protest action, which was attended by about a thousand people.

Only in Berlin two dozen houses, which sooner or later Special Forces.

"... The people who today evicted from the house, too, worry not: this city has a lot of abandoned houses" - so thinks the author of one of the mainstream articles about the incident.Immediately clear that he never tried to live without light, water and other amenities of civilization. And it is with such conditions begins squat any project. And now winter is on the street, and Berlin is not the southern city.

As reported at Liebig 14, this housing project was created by enthusiasts, as opposed to a society in which people exist as separate units and are not connected with each other, except cold prudent relations, the proposed Society of materialists.The project also Liebig 14 participants are invited to become members of the community in which all open to each other, cooperate with each other and respect each other.

These events can be the beginning of autonomous riots in the western world. That is, liberty, conquered in 1968, comes to an end. This is confirmed by the mood of the German authorities, who by the mouth of one of the chief of police said the elimination of autonomy as a direct threat to democracy.On television screens all over the world they broadcast that squats and autonomous spaces are destroying the state by its very existence. Consequently, they are on, democracy itself. And today, as we know the word democracy is a hyperlink to the war with infidels ...