{"id":276,"date":"2016-07-10T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trespass.network\/?p=276"},"modified":"2016-07-10T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T15:08:31","slug":"rigaer94-protests-translation-of-nos-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sindominio.net\/trespass\/en\/2016\/07\/10\/rigaer94-protests-translation-of-nos-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigaer94 protests: Translation of NOS article"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translation of Krakersvrede in Berlijn slaat na ontruiming om in grimmigheid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Burnt out cars, defaced bank buildings and police officers attacked. In
\nBerlin for the last two weeks almost every evening it goes grim. After
\nthe eviction of a squatted building two weeks ago, protesters intend to
\n\u00abplunge the city into chaos.\u00bb
\n<\/p>\n

Tonight a huge demonstration is announced, and everyone expects more
\nviolence. Berlin politicians talk of terror. The squatters find it
\nlegitimate violence. Anne: \u00abThose who do not want to listen must feel it\u00bb.<\/p>\n

The squatter riots of the 1990s are back in Berlin. Since that time
\nBerlin squatters are almost all legalised. They pay a relatively low
\nrent. They see the eviction of the Rigaer 94 squat as a sign that this
\nsituation is ending.<\/p>\n

The squatters have a rental contract but it is not watertight. Now the
\nhousing market is picking up in Berlin and housing prices rise, the
\nowners are looking for a plan that gives more money and they want to get
\nrid of the squatters.<\/p>\n

The advantageous contracts came about at the end of the last century,
\nsays SquatProfessor Andrej Holm of the Humboldt University to
\ncorrespondent Jeroen Wollaars. \u00abThe squatters promised not to use
\nviolence any more if they were not evicted. But those were agreements
\nbetween the city council and squatters. In the meantime, the properties
\nhave been sold to investors.\u00bb<\/p>\n

The current owners do not feel bound by the agreement, according to
\nHolm. The investors have decided that the contracts sit badly together
\nand try to end them. The squatters do not want to let that happen. They
\nsee this as a violation of the agreements and, in turn, they find that
\nthey therefore no longer need to remain nonviolent.<\/p>\n

Previously, it did not matter for the landlords if you had ex-squatters
\nor regular tenants, says Holm. \u00abThat is not the case anymore, because
\nthe rents in Berlin are now going through the roof.\u00bb<\/p>\n

He warns that the city is changing. \u00abBerlin was always a city of
\nsubcultures. Not only homes are disappearing, but also everything around
\nthem, including shops, bars, theatres and cinemas. Many other Berliners
\nsee that also and so the squatters get a lot of sympathy. And their [ie
\nthe other Berliners’] housing costs are also rising.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Wollaars also sees the city changing. \u00abMaybe this is the beginning of
\nthe end of a scene. A scene that in ever more places is displaced by
\ncoffee shops and wine bars. But this scene will not go down without a
\nfight.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Translation of Krakersvrede in Berlijn slaat na ontruiming om in grimmigheid: Burnt out cars, defaced bank buildings and police officers attacked. In Berlin for the last two weeks almost every evening it goes grim. After the eviction of a squatted …<\/p>\n

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