21 injured police officers
Commemoration for Luxemburg and Liebknecht escalates
January 14, 2024, 6:52 p.m
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Around 3,000 people march through Berlin in the afternoon to commemorate the murdered communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. According to the police, a speaker chanted “criminal slogans.” When he is arrested, the emergency services are attacked.
21 police officers were injured in Berlin during a demonstration in memory of the communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Four of them had to be taken to a hospital, the police said. 16 demonstrators were arrested.
Pro-Palestinian groups also took part in the protest.
(Photo: picture alliance / Geisler-Fotopress)
The reason for the argument was a speaker who was speaking from a loudspeaker van “punishable slogans” chanted, as the police wrote at
The emergency services used pepper spray to protect them. It is unclear whether demonstrators were also injured. Around 3,000 people took part in the procession, including supporters of pro-Palestinian groups. It is not known which “criminal slogan” was chanted.
Heads of the revolutionary movement
The leader of the left laid a wreath.
(Photo: picture alliance/dpa)
The communist leaders Liebknecht and Luxemburg were murdered 105 years ago. Numerous participants laid red carnations at the socialist memorial at the Berlin-Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. The party leaders of the Left, Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan, honored Liebknecht and Luxemburg with a wreath.
A revolutionary committee under Liebknecht, co-founder of the Communist Party, declared the government of the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert deposed at the beginning of January 1919. There were mass demonstrations. The Spartacus uprising was suppressed.
A few days after the bloody fighting, the underground leaders of the Spartacus League, Luxemburg and Liebknecht, were arrested by members of a vigilante group on January 15, 1919. The two leaders of the revolutionary movement were kidnapped and interrogated. Right-wing soldiers then shot Liebknecht in the Tiergarten. Luxemburg was shot dead in a car after being interrogated. The soldiers threw her body into the Landwehr Canal, where it was not found until the end of May 1919.