William Gillis 🏴3d ago
There were police raids of anarchists across Berlin today, clearly as fishing and harassment in response to a couple controversial arsons six months ago. The local Police Union declared leftists “a cancer eating away at society.”
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/razzia-in-der-linksextremistischen-szene-vier-verdachtige-nach-brandanschlag-im-sudosten-berlins-ermittelt-15392376.html
Razzia in der linksextremistischen Szene: Vier Verdächtige nach Brandanschlag im Südosten Berlins ermittelt

Der Brandanschlag auf einen Strommast im September führte zu Stromausfällen in Teilen Berlins. Am Dienstag liefen Durchsuchungen gegen Linksextremisten in vier Bundesländern.

Der Tagesspiegel
Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴2d ago
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴
Statement from one anarchist:
https://infoladenscherer8.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/24/infoladen-scherer-8-raided/
Mar 25 at 1:17amWeb
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴3d ago
Local comrades have said the attacks were incredibly unpopular in the scene, both in terms of the targets/impact and in drama around the communique/crew claiming it. But raids of social centers where cops lug out piles of anarchist books and zines make clear the stakes of the police response.
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴2d ago

Another statement:

https://infoladenscherer8.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/24/statement-ueber-hausdurchung-24-03/

Statement zur Hausdurchsuchung, 24.03 – Infoladen Scherer 8

Show threadDoug Webb2d ago

@rechelon collective punishment... And who knows: year or two ago, a bunch of cars in Germany got building foam sprayed into their exhausts, with Green party propaganda left on site. Turned out to be Russian agitation.

Edit: source https://www.dw.com/de/russische-sabotage-mit-bauschaum-im-deutschen-wahlkampf-russland-deutschland-wahl-wahlen-gr%C3%BCne-v4/a-71518245

(Also: Totally possible anticiv)

Russische Sabotage mit Bauschaum vor Wahl in Deutschland?

Handlanger russischer Agenten sollen in Deutschland Autos beschädigt haben, um die Partei "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" im Wahlkampf zu diskreditieren. Mit Bauschaum im Auspuff. Bernd Riegert aus Berlin.

Deutsche Welle
Show threadundead enby of the apocalypse3d ago
@rechelon extremely unpopular is one way of putting it… i don’t live in berlin but i think people everywhere had roughly the same response, which is “fuck these assholes for doing something that leaves so many uninvolved people without electricity and treating it like necessary collateral damage”. I’ve seen lots of people speculate that it was a false flag to make the left look bad. Not that the cops care, they are probably giddy with excitement now (a gross thing to imagine) that they have a pretense to raid and criminalize the leftist scene.
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴2d ago

@enby_of_the_apocalypse

Yeah, I mean it seems like there's still about half a dozen anticivs raised on meme accounts who are shocked the scene didn't stand with them, but are extremely shocked that old timer anticivs who felt disrespected by said crew and haven't backed them.

Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴2d ago

@enby_of_the_apocalypse

I do worry that we'll see a self-justification spiral where a handful of anticivs get so mad at the movement for not supporting their super based attack on the civilized that they end up in ITS level shit within a year or two of isolation and seething.