US EditionPro-Palestinian Activists Use Lift to Scale Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate
Six activists used a cherry-picker to climb the Brandenburg Gate, displaying a banner and lighting flares before police detained them for trespassing and other violations.
- Pro-Palestinian activists used a rented cherry-picker lift to scale the 26m-tall Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin on Nov 13, with three reaching the top at midday.
- The activists' banner declared 'Never again genocide- freedom for Palestine' as pro-Palestinian activists lit flares and shouted slogans during the protest.
- A police rescue team removed and arrested protesters; three activists locked themselves in the truck cab and police smashed a window to arrest them, while all six activists were detained.
- Investigators are examining potential damage to the 18th-century Brandenburg Gate after the incident disrupted a tourist-packed square near the government district, with authorities noting recurring prior climbs.
- Officials said the incident unfolded very quickly as a special police rescue team climbed the Gate in an operation lasting about 1½ hours, Berlin police spokesman Florian Nath said.
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Pro-Pal protest at Brandenburg Gate, where a banner was unrolled from an air platform with the inscription "Never more geno...
Pro-Palestin activists used an elevated platform to show a show in the famous port of Brandenburg, a symbol of Berlin and Germany, this Friday, with the message: "Never again genocide — freedom for Palestine." Six people participated in the establishment of the stage, and were arrested by the police shortly after the end of the protest.
It was six people, wearing safety vests, who drove the lift into the crowded square on a sunny day.
Pro-Palestinian activists climbed the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of Berlin and Germany, and unfurled a banner today, before being arrested.
Pro-Palestinian activists used a lift boat on Thursday to deploy a banner on the famous Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of Berlin and Germany, before being arrested by the police.
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