Riots in Berlin: Hundreds arrested in protests for the Middle East conflict

Riots in Berlin: Hundreds arrested in protests for the Middle East conflict

On Thursday and on the night of Friday, October 3, 2025, the Berlin police accompanied several meetings that took place in the context of the Middle East conflict. Around 300 police officers were deployed in the districts of Mitte, Wedding and Tiergarten. While many participants peacefully exercised their fundamental right to freedom of assembly, however, there were also disorders, crimes and attacks on the emergency services. According to statements, the police, however, were not all protests peaceful.

At noon, four people-three women aged 27, 38 and 45 and a 26-year-old man-were arrested by federal police officers after tilted red color against the facade of the external office and applied a lettering. Although they were temporarily arrested and referred to, they took part in a rally before the Federal Foreign Office, which led to further arrests. Here one of the women resisted.

Consistencies and injuries

From the afternoon, several rallies with up to 800 participants took place on Alexanderplatz. While a vigil went without incidents, there were considerable disorders in other meetings. Some participants tried to penetrate a counter -rally, which further fueled the situation. Pyrotechnics were used, and about 60 people blocked tram tracks, ignored police requests for evacuation.

The police report on attacks with firecrackers, bottles and stones on the emergency services, whereby an official on the helmet was hit by a stone. A total of 80 people were arrested. Those responsible are now facing advertisements due to particularly severe breach of the peace, resistance and assault on enforcement officers as well as for property damage and violations of the explosive law. Ten police officers were also violated, but were able to continue their service.

Overview of the meetings

In the days before, at the weekend, the Berlin police also had to protect several meetings in the context of the Middle East conflict. A total of three meetings took place on a Saturday. The Pro-Palestinian assembly with the topic "Solidarity with Palestine. Stops the Gaza Genocide" 150 participants, but grew to around 350 people. Here there were verbal disputes with participating pro-Israeli rallies. The police had to make numerous liberty of liberty, including some for assault and hooded participants.

A spontaneous assembly in Kreuzberg was also dissolved on Sunday evening that chanted anti -Semitic slogans. Overall, compulsory measures were also expressed here to calm the situation.

Notes on restrictions on freedom of assembly

The incidents throw a light on the debate about the freedom of assembly in Germany. Amnesty International recently mentioned the country for the first time in a list in which the right to freedom of assembly is increasingly restricted. The organization criticizes the procedures of the police, some of which perceives protests as a threat to public security. Paula Zimmermann, expert for freedom of expression and assembly, expresses concerns that protests are increasingly criminalized. Amnesty International If politics calls on to protect the freedom of assembly comprehensively, but also emphasizes that climate activists in particular are now exposed to considerable repression.

The police will continue to try to find a balance between the maintenance of public security and the protection of the right to freedom of assembly. A difficult undertaking at a time when the public interest in political and social issues such as the Middle East conflict is so high.

A total of 61 criminal charges and seven administrative offenses were made in the current events in Berlin. The location relaxed around 10:30 p.m.