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- SummaryPress conference on the evacuation of Mainzer Straße. Senator of the Interior Erich Pätzold as well as a police officer report about the incidents during the eviction and present some of the objects of the squatters.
- ShotlistConference hall in the town hall Schöneberg: people run back and forth; policemen carry cardboard into the hall; Journalists leaf through documents, entrance door in HG; Erich Pätzold, Georg Schertz et al. enter conference room and take their seats; Conference room T; zoom on police officers unpacking evidence from cardboard; cardboard GA; police officers spreading various objects on the floor (gas mask, pistols etc.); Press release Pätzold OT: "...Senate and Senator of the Interior still stand for what we call the line of de-escalation/ want peaceful solutions/ want conflicts to be solved by political means/ want young people to have spaces of freedom/ presuppose that one - like every other person - tries to reach spaces by concluding contracts of use, where one can lead a life according to one's ideas/ queue of the waiting of the apartment-seekers is extraordinarily high/ as I will still explain, almost all of those who we have arrested in the Mainzer Straße cleared houses have a residence in West Berlin or West Germany/ are only 13, The real inhabitants of the occupied houses/ will not be disturbed by the fact that peaceful solutions will be sought even for such a large number of occupied houses found/ is not a reason if no violence emanates from the houses to evacuate them, unless the owner, in exercising his ownership rights, forces them to do so/ will influence all owners, when it is somehow possible to find peaceful regulations of use / will to peaceableness finds its limit even for the most liberal state where others are not yet willing to peaceableness themselves, but believe to have to take something at the expense of others and then to regard it as their property....to commit massive violence/ violence against police officers who have their duty to fulfil/ I am happy about every riot in the last days that calls for renunciation of violence/ only with some I discover that the violence starts where the police had to react to the most brutal violence of squatters according to the law/ the previous brutal outbreaks of violence that no one provoked have not yet been noticed/ I have not yet heard a word of regret, that there have been these outbreaks of violence/we hope to bring the sovereignty and serenity to bear, that we not only bring compassion to injured police officers, but we also bring compassion to people who take different positions and are injured in the process, even if they were the trigger for such violent confrontations...."; Pätzold OT to the Berlin line; Pätzold OT on evidence: "...didn't just want to show here a few objects which are only representative in very small numbers of what we found in the houses/ gives hundreds of Molotow cocktails/ Molotowbrand bottles which we had to drive on trucks to the Grunewald blasting site because they are highly explosive/ which we couldn't even show them as the only specimen because the gas pressure in the bottles is so high..."; Pätzold OT to Molotov cocktails; Pätzold OT: "....there are many other things we could show/ gives this bow with the sharpened metal points on the arrows/ they know these death traps that should fall on the officials/ everything is too voluminous to show/ but have brought along a number of sets of pictures/ not only pavement slabs have been found on the roofs, but also kerbs that should be thrown/ chimneys have been broken/ number of fire bottles can only be estimated..."; Pätzold OT to the stones; Pätzold OT to more weapons; Pätzold OT: "...I'm not saying this to dramatize all this, but we just want to find out what was there/ am glad that we can introduce you to two police leaders..."; Gas mask on the ground GA; various objects on the ground (gas mask, weapons, slingshot); swivel over the various objects (spray doses, wooden sticks, etc.); Close-ups of the crime scene; Journalists sideways; various recordings of conference topics; Pätzold OH; Pätzold OT: "...the still acting police commissioner of the magistrate is said to have said that the politicians had become word-breaking / they had promised not to evacuate Mainzer Strasse / believe that most Berliners have now discovered what that was like / when these brutal outbreaks of violence began in Mainzer Strasse, I was immediately told 'This is all just happening, because the Mainzer Straße assumes that it will be evacuated now and the police operation will apply to it'/I immediately explained that of course the evacuation of the Mainzer Straße was not intended, without outbreaks of violence there would have been no reason to evacuate the Mainzer Straße, but that the three houses in Lichtenberg and Prenzlauer Berg had to be evacuated according to the Berlin line...."; Men OH; Pätzold OH at the speaker's table; Pätzold OT: "...In any case, the fact is that if someone remembers the many television pictures from Wednesday, even from the days before, then - apart from the fact that somewhere it seemed as if police officers had thrown back stones and at one point I also had the impression as if a stone had been thrown from the roof by a police officer, we are following this precisely - all the pictures show that no cameraman, no photographer, no journalist has been obstructed / no people have been arrested, as is usually the case in other countries, was taken away and dragged over the ground / absolute discipline of the Berlin police despite the terrible experiences / am lucky that I have access to some who were also found in the houses and who report to me that they would not have seen the slightest police violation in the houses / do not want to rule out that something might not have happened in other houses / we will not pray anything healthy here / if someone thinks he has seen a police attack, then please make himself available with his knowledge...." various shots of the participants; police officers; cameraman; windup on conference hall; Cameraman from behind; panning down on objects spread out on the ground; panning up on filming cameraman (from behind); Pull-up on speaker's table, cameraman in the VG; filming cameraman from behind; pull-up on speaker's table, cameraman in the VG; cameraman leaves; Men OH are standing in front of windows; Cut-out wine bottle in transparent bag; puller on objects on the bottom; zoom on wine bottle; two GA spray cans (one "Intergas"); Frog's perspective Objects on the ground (gas mask, wooden stick etc.); zoom on gas mask; puller on objects; Speaker's table T with objects on the floor in the VG; Police leader OT: "...we then received a call for help from construction workers who wanted to leave their construction site, but could not leave the construction site, because it was barricaded / we also checked / the group patrol was immediately given massive consideration with stones and other projectiles, so that they had to retreat ..."; OT police guide for use in Scharnweberstraße/ Mainzer Straße; Police guide OT: "...Vehicles are so with roof tiles, small stone pavement, with Mollys...I myself stood at the opposite house wall and had to observe, how a person appeared masked and with the slingshot aimed at me shot/ had luck and was not hit/ we were so bombarded by the houses that we had difficulties to withdraw the vehicles from the Scharnweberstraße again.../ I saw that in the corner house Scharnweberstraße/ Mainzer Straße a person with a pistol stood and aimed down/ presumed and hoped that the signal ammunition was..."; Schertz OH; Police leader OH; Police leader OT: "...they took everything they had on the roofs / had to build depots / what came down there is usually not on a roof.""
- TagsPress conference (PK); Senator (Berlin); Interior Senator; Police President (Berlin); Man; German; November; Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); Berlin history; Squatting; Evacuation; Housing shortage; Autonomous Movement; Political Resistance; Evacuation; Evacuation; Police Operation; Evidence; Evidence; Weapon; Berlin Line; Police Operation; Rioters; Gas Mask; Slingshot; Spray can; Bottle; SPD Interior Senator; Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD);
- Decade1990
- Production Year1990
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- Actors
- PersonalitiesGeorg Schertz, Erich Pätzold
- Director
- Producer
- CameraHelga Behr-Schurter
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A00AIV8
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