Christmas tree burnt
NZPA-Reuter West Berlin
J Supporters of a radical squatters movement went on the rampage in West Berlin early on Christmas Day, smashing shop and bank windows and looting stores. The city's biggest public Christmas tree went up in flames as youths armed with Molotov cocktails and crowbars started at least five fires, the police said. No-one was arrested during the night’s violence, apparently because the raids occurred so quickly and in several areas of the city at once, they added. Slogans spray-painted on some store-fronts demanded the release of five squatters, occupying derelict housing in the working-class district of Kreuzberg, who were arrested in clashes with the police earlier this month. The squatters movement warned y/est Berlin’s governing sedate earlier this, week that "not only . the candlesVion Christmas trdes” would be; alight in the city if those still held were not released.
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Press, 27 December 1980, Page 6
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