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Several participants in a demonstration are said to have harassed and attacked police officers in Berlin-Schöneberg.
A police spokeswoman told SPIEGEL that the emergency services were there for the rally.
According to consistent media reports, it was an event of the left-wing autonomous scene.
According to a message from the authorities, the police officers established the identity of a 31-year-old on Sunday at around 5 p.m.
This had previously been observed in the event of property damage.
Thereupon the emergency services were harassed by an "unmanageable group of people".
Later about 40 people pushed the emergency services away and made "loud expressions of displeasure".
A woman beat a police officer.
When she was about to be arrested, a man assaulted the police officers, according to investigators.
The woman escaped, the man was arrested.
Throwing bottles and irritant gas
When the emergency services brought the two arrested persons to the police car, strangers threw bottles at them, hit them and kicked them.
Three officers were injured, according to the report, and two of them were taken to a hospital.
The police used irritant gas.
The officers later recognized a man who allegedly injured a police officer in the head by throwing a bottle.
The 35-year-old was taken into police custody.
He is accused of particularly serious breach of the peace, physical attacks on law enforcement officers, dangerous bodily harm and bodily harm.
The 31-year-old is being investigated on suspicion of property damage and resistance to law enforcement officers.
Recordings published by the "Bild" newspaper show police officers being followed by a group of people and appearing to flee to their emergency vehicle.
However, it is only a part of the entire scene, said the spokeswoman.
The Autonomous Youth Center »Potse«, however, reported on Twitter of »police violence« and mistreatment during the arrest at the rally: »The person's face was pressed into the sand after he was hit in the face.« People who complained about it beaten and kicked by the police.
The police spokeswoman said that the actions of the emergency services were also the subject of the investigation.
In the agency's division of resources it is said that the police had used "direct coercion in the form of pushing away those who were threatening."
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