Editorial team
Pro-Pal protest at the Brandenburg Gate, where banners reading “No more genocide – freedom for Palestine” were raised from aerial platforms and rockets were fired. Six of them arrived at the edge of the vehicle at the symbolic building of Berlin and Germany and three of them climbed to the top of the 26-meter-high monument. The actions of the activists happened “very quickly”, said Berlin police spokesman Florian Nath. “We arrived at the scene within minutes, but the aerial platform was already up and we didn’t stop it because it would have been too dangerous.” The three activists on the platform then unfurled the banner and the three remaining activists on the ground locked themselves in the cockpit. Police had to break windows to arrest them. A special police team climbed the Brandenburg Gate to arrest the remaining activists and drop them back: an operation that took about an hour and a half. It remains to be seen whether the use of the platform caused any damage to the monument built in the 18th century.
