25/03/2026 7:30 μμ.
At 6 AM this morning, cops started destroying the ground floor of the house project Scherer 8 in Berlin-Wedding. Somehow, they failed already on the old doors of Infoladen and Bar, so they smashed a vitrine down on the way into the house covering Infoladen in glass.
Many things got destroyed at Infoladen from plants to toilets, as if someone were let loose to show off how random state violence is. Since cops found nothing, they got angrier and threw all the info materials and books on the ground. (It is the books which were supposed to leave a footprint on people but for some people it is the other way around these days.)
Thereby, the state makes it more difficult to correct its mistakes also. The police took away the Rote Hilfe personal files of the politically prosecuted as well as the computer of BASTA who consult the people of the neighbourhood who have lost their jobs. The consultations have now been hampered significantly. Some books for the new Infoladen library are missing too.
The house was searched entirely with many computers and devices taken away for further investigation. Most of the doors on the ground flour are not usable anymore.
The house search was ordered in relation to people who never lived in the house. The fact that police simultaneously raided so many other places without a warrant to arrest anyone showcases how little their activity has to do with searching for evidence and how much more with frightening activists and neighbours and causing them financial problems taking away their laptops, computers, phones and destroying their living spaces.
One example of randomness is how they confiscated a newspaper called „Tanz auf dem Vulkan“ written by Wedding artists about the local square Martha-Ndumbe-Platz, where „Vulkan“ merely symbolises a sculpture in the middle of the square. Needless to say, some curious investigator brain obsessed with getting into Berlin house projects apparently associated it with Volcano groups and the arsons in Berlin South of the last months.
The state claims to keep searching for any clue to connect anarchist communities and individuals with infrastructure sabotage but actually uses it as an excuse to repress everyone on the way. How the police spokeperson stated, ‚they hope‘ something would be found, but has no idea what exactly. The idea seems basically to collect and connect all the info letting their repression algorithms to invent future investigations.
Thanks to everyone who supported at the spontaneous gathering this morning! We are left now cleaning up the mess and will be happy for donations to cover the repairing costs. The doors have to be changed and a new vitrine has been already ordered. Overall, the costs run up to a 4-digit number. Come by on Saturday at 1 PM for the next event to support living alternatives to capitalism in the city!
We are staying in solidarity with our comrades at the anarchist library Kalabalık in Kreuzberg, L5 Späti in Neukölln and everyone touched by the raids. Together, we are strong!