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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Supporters of the radical left squatters scene from Rigaer Strasse in Berlin-Friedrichshain have penetrated the responsible district office and harassed employees.

They wanted to protest on Friday against possible controls and measures by the district in the partially occupied house number 94, as they wrote on Twitter.

The police spoke of 10 to 15 masked men and women who had illegally advanced to the office of City Councilor Florian Schmidt (Greens) on the 8th floor of the town hall in Kreuzberg at around 11 a.m.

Schmidt was not there, so that, according to the police, the group only harassed and verbally attacked one employee, left leaflets and pulled it off before the alarmed police appeared.

This was followed by a complaint for trespassing.

The police are investigating.

The Twitter channel “Rigaer 94” said: “Schmidt could be responsible for an attack on our house that is expected shortly.”

And a little later: “The intervention is over.

Schmidt was not there, so we decorated his anteroom. "

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Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) recently called on the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district to act in the face of numerous violations of fire protection in the barricaded building.

He had "suggested" that the building supervision of the district should become active because renovations could pose a threat to life and limb.

An expert opinion is necessary.

He gave the district a deadline of February 5 to comment.

Last year it became known that City Councilor Schmidt repeatedly prevented the implementation of fire protection measures in the house.

With internal instructions, he took action against the building supervision taking care of the problem.

Schmidt and the district justified this with the aim of "avoiding a disturbance of the public peace in the north of Friedrichshain".

Left-wing autonomous residents expanded the building like a fortress over the years to make access more difficult for the police.

There are repeated attacks on the police from inside and around the house.

The perpetrators fled into the house several times, where the police could not follow them.

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