The conflict over the last occupied houses is raging in Berlin.
Owners are demanding evictions, autonomous people are fighting against it - by all means.
The radicals receive support from politics.
The green district office, especially building councilor Florian Schmidt, keep preventing official intervention.
This is proven by internal documents.
For this three-part reportage series, WELT reporters Ibrahim Naber and David Körzdörfer filmed the entire conflict for months.
Here comes episode 3: The parliamentary bridges.
An excerpt from the transcript
WORLD:
So, you won't do it for him?
Niklas Schrader:
I don't take his social streak away from him (the property owner Padovicz).
Of course not.
That also shows his behavior in other houses.
If he had a social streak, then he wouldn't treat the tenants in all his houses in Berlin the way he treats them.
WORLD:
On October 8th, 2018 you and Mr. Padovicz had an appointment with Mr. Schmidt in the district office.
Ferdinand Wrobel:
Yes, that was a meeting led by Mr. Schmidt.
He had, so to speak, started this conversation.
Various people were on site, but they did not want to introduce themselves by name and did not want to explain who they are.
They made that clear straight away.
And there should be talked about a possible continuation of the use of Liebigstrasse 34.
But the atmosphere, the atmosphere of the conversation, was just hateful from the start.
That was nothing more.
What then irritated me a little was that at the end of the conversation, Mr. Padovicz and I were supposed to leave the office and Mr. Schmidt stayed behind with the people.
That irritated me a bit because I didn't know it from mediation talks.