A large number of police arrives at the planned fire protection date in a partially occupied Berlin house.
Residents of the barricaded building want to prevent entry and attack the emergency services.
Berlin (dpa) - In order to enforce a fire protection test in the partially occupied building "Rigaer 94" in Berlin-Friedrichshain, the police forcibly gained access to the barricaded house.
Police broke down doors that morning with heavy equipment.
Residents attacked them with powder from a fire extinguisher and threw them paint, as a dpa reporter reported and can be seen in pictures.
The police spoke of several injured forces.
Negotiations between the district and the residents had previously failed.
Several officers injured
The expert who is supposed to carry out the fire protection test was not in the building complex consisting of the front building, side wing and rear building by noon.
Parts of the building were barricaded on Wednesday.
The residents only wanted to allow the fire protection expert access alone, without police protection.
However, according to the police, he refused.
It was unclear when he could start his work.
According to their own statements, the police are deployed with a total of more than 1,000 personnel.
Roads are largely blocked.
In the vicinity of the "Rigaer 94" school and daycare center were closed on Thursday, as was the district office.
Residents announced resistance to the action via loudspeaker.
Rockets were detonated above the house and firecrackers could be heard.
Shortly before noon, the residents tweeted: "The police are in the house."
Riots on Wednesday evening
On the Wednesday before the planned fire protection test, masked people attacked the police.
The police reported that stones were thrown at them.
Barricades were burning on Rigaer Strasse.
More than 70 officers were injured, according to police.
The interior ministers and senators of the federal states sharply criticized the riots. "Violence is never a means of political debate and democratic opinion controversy," wrote the participants in the conference of interior ministers currently in session in Baden-Württemberg in a statement published on Thursday.
On Thursday morning, police officers broke open an outer door on “Rigaer 94” with ram, cut-off machine and chainsaw, as a dpa reporter reported.
After a smoke development, presumably from sprayed fire extinguishing agent, several police officers complained of irritation to the respiratory tract, as the police tweeted.
Some emergency services wore gas masks.
A second door took the police longer to open.
They then gained access through the courtyard of a neighboring house.
According to initial information from the police, 8 police officers were injured by fire extinguishing powder, and another 13 suffered a blast trauma.
The occupied house conflict has existed for years
There have been conflicts over Rigaer Straße 94 for a long time. The building is one of the last partially occupied buildings in the capital and is also a symbol of the left-wing extremist scene.
The residents and their supporters had long announced resistance to the inspection and repeatedly threatened with violence.
In the building complex of three houses with 30 apartments, numerous deficiencies in fire protection were documented years ago: missing escape routes, wall openings, faulty electrical cables and barriers in stairwells.
There are rental agreements for many apartments.
But it is unclear who lives there.
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