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Berlin police said on Sunday that 123 officers were hurt in clashes with left-wing extremists who hurled rocks and bottles at them, smashed shop windows and set cars ablaze.
The overnight violence follows weeks of escalating tensions around a building that is a centre of the far-left youth scene. It has been repeatedly raided by police.
Police said on Saturday night’s protest was the city’s “most aggressive and violent demonstration in the past five years”.
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Police had sent 1,800 officers to confront the 3,500-strong crowd. The officers used batons and tear gas as
the situation deteriorated.
Eighty-six protesters were temporarily detained, with three facing a magistrate on charges of breach of the peace, police said. The protests centred on a flashpoint building in the German capital’s inner-east Friedrichshain district which regards itself as a militant bastion against rising rents and the gentrification of Berlin.
The city-state’s minister in charge of security, Frank Henkel, denounced the “orgy of violence of the extreme left” by “anarchists and troublemakers”.
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