⚲ 9:00 | Amtsgericht Tiergarten, Turmstr.91, 10559 Berlin
The state prosecutor is pressing charges against our comrade for allegedly assaulting a cop during the demonstration in Berlin on the 11th May 2024 against the genocide in Gaza and for the liberation of Palestine.
Halfway through, the police stopped the demonstration at Hermannplatz and started attacking the demonstrators. Arbitrarily and violently beating up and arresting those who are protesting the genocide. That day was particularly violent, as state thugs threw a young girl on the ground and put their knee on her neck. Another horrifying incident from that day was a 14 years old who was violently arrested without their parents present.
As the police was indiscriminately brutalizing the demonstrators, people attempted to fight back and defend themselves. The state prosecutor accuses the comrade to be among those who defended themselves and threw bottles at the police.
In the face of indiscriminate state violence, it is not only legitimate, but sometimes even necessary to protect your and everyone’s health and life. The countless videos we have witnessed in the past two years show without doubt that the German police would injure and arrest underage children, would attack pregnant women and separate parents from their underage children. That they would brutalize demonstrators unconscious and send them to emergency rooms with broken arms, ribs, and noses.
If demonstrators didn’t defend themselves, who knows what these thugs would’ve done more. Defending yourself against indiscriminate and even illegal state violence is not criminal. Fighting against genocide is not criminal.
It is these German cops, the German politicians, German journalists, German prosecutors and judges who are complicit in Germany’s crimes against humanity and the genocide against the Palestinian people. But we will not be intimidated; we stand together and will keep protecting each other from state thugs.
Stand in solidarity with our comrades in court, and let’s keep resisting for Palestine!
