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Berlin, Germany: Update on the legal situation of Rigaer94 EN/DE
There hasn’t been a legal update by us in the past 10 months. Now a lot of stuff is happening again and we are not sure how this will all turn out. What we are sure about is that the enemies of the house are continuing their actions in order to destroy the house. We will not stop fighting them. Here is a brief overview of the legal status of the house right now and the changes which have been going on.
What is the current situation?
Since most of the remaining rent contracts were canceled last summer, the vast majority of the flats are right now without those rent contracts. There are just five rent contracts remaining in the whole house. It seems like our enemies are trying to get rid of the rent contracts bit by bit, in order to create a legal base for a complete eviction of the house.
Court cases that happened in the last months (or didn´t)
- On September 4th 2024, there should have been an appeal about some of the rent contracts from 1992 in the back house and against the people who were added to these lawsuits, as a result of the raid in October 2021. Before that, the Amtsgericht dismissed those eviction lawsuits against the rent contracts. The court date was postponed because the so-called lawyer of Lafone, Bernau, sent some documents too late to the judges to include them. Since then there has been no new date scheduled for this.You can find a more detailed description here.
- The lawyers of Lafone lodged a disciplinary complaint against judges of the 66th chamber of Landgericht II, accusing and suing the judges for allegedly delaying the trials. This disciplinary complaint was declined. We can only laugh at both our enemies fighting each other.
- As we published last year, in three proceedings about two apartments in front house as well as one room in the attic of back house, the legitimacy of the letterbox company Lafone was not questioned by the judges anymore. The apartments in front house still did not get eviction orders, though for one of them a person is supposed to pay their alleged ‘rent debts’, about 20.000€. For the room in the attic on the other side, the judges actually seem willing to issue an eviction order. Since we published this information, all those decisions were confirmed by the Kammergericht – therefore, the highest court in Berlin now seems to accept the legitimacy of this letter box company.
Leonid Medved is the “Owner” of Lafone
Part of this change is also that Leonid Medved is now officially listed as owner of Lafone (and therefore R94) on Companys House. He is described as an “individual person with significant control”. It is said that he directly or indirectly holds 75% or more of the shares in the company. (PDF) Medved became registrable as shareholder on 06/04/2016, but the entry note was just published on 25/04/2025. With this first listing in an official document of the company we now have proof of what we have known for a long time.
Info on upcoming eviction court cases
There are a lot of trials regarding our house coming up in September. Besides attempting to get eviction titles for the squatted flats and those who had rent contracts since 1992, Lafone is trying to get rid of the remaining renters of front house by cancelling their rent contracts.
On 17th of September, all of the rented flats of front house will have appeal hearings. The first lawsuits that attempted to cancel those rent contracts were rejected years ago. Aditionally, some of the trials against people who were added to the lawsuits following the raid in October 2021 will happen that day in the same court room. These hearings will happen at Landgericht II.
Also on 17.9., there will be a court case against the Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle. The last eviction lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle was rejected by the Kammergericht. Bernaus appeal against that was declined by the federal supreme court (BGH) in November 2023. In the end of last year, Bernau filed another eviction lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle, starting from scratch.
For all the court cases all the affected parties have to come. That means the accused, but also Lisa Close, the director of Lafone Investments, will be there. Let’s give her a proper welcome!
Call for participation in the court cases
We call for participation in solidarity at the upcoming court cases. The courtcases will be public (bring ID if you want to go inside).
(Wednesday) 10.09.2025 at 13.00. Littenstr 12-17 room 3705 (3rd floor). Lawsuit against the last existing rent contract in backhouse.
(Wednesday) 17.09.2025 at 10.30. Tegeler weg 17-21. room 148 (1st floor). Lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle.
(Wednesday) 17.09.2025 at 13.00. Littenstr 12-17 room 3705(3rd floor). Lawsuit against the rented flats in front house and some other eviction lawsuits.
For more context read our last two texts “Rigaer94: Sommergewitter in meinem Block – “thunder storms on my block” and “Rigaer94: Return of the Phoenicurus. News from a letterbox“
More infos will follow soon.
Rigaer 94 stays!
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Berlin, Germany: Wild demo in memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris
On October 31 our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris was killed and our anarchist comrade Marianna M. was severely wounded in an explosion in an apartment in Athens. She was brought to the Evangelismos Hospital, where she was treated under constant police surveillance, and later transferred to the pre-detention prison in Korydallos. In the aftermath of what happened that day also our anarchist comrade Dimitra Z, our comrades Dimitris and Nikos R. and another person have been arrested and imprisoned in the same case.
Since then sorrow and rage have been present in our lives. Sadness for losing a comrade who committed to the fight to the end and by all means; anger because it is this capitalist, racist and patriarchal system that killed him. Kyriakos did not choose to close his eyes on the economic and political interests of a few who condemn us to a life of misery through the sale of houses to vulture funds, labor precariousness, feminicides, borders and wars. In the city of Berlin Kyriakos he has been committed for years in the defense of released spaces and against gentrification, in the internationalist struggle, in the abolition of prisons, as well as in all social and class struggles.
His passion and believes for a new world free of oppression leave a huge emptiness in those who were around them, as well as in the struggle itself. However, his imprint through words and actions encourages us to keep the thread of the insurrection alive, thus continuing the vision of the social revolution present in our hearts and minds. A revolutionary action that understands the armed struggle as a decisive medium in favor of those of the bottom in the balance of power, which tries and manages to return to the state part of the violence that every day imposes us.
We understand that through the defense of his memory we also stand next to all those who gave their lives or and were imprisoned to fight against injustice, inequality and exploitation.
For all this reason and collecting the call of February 7 and 8 of the Greek comrades from Athens, we want to face those who try to pervert this memory. As well as express our solidarity to the comrades imprisoned in the same case. For this reason we decided to have a short wild demo through Friedrichshain where we had shared together many collective moments of happiness and rage. Obstacles were put on the streets, graffiti in memory of Kyriakos were sprayed. Afterwards in Rigaer Street arriving forces of the occupiers were fought with stones.
This neighborhood of Berlin, as well as other metropols in the world, has faced a huge process of gentrification. In the last years where collective spaces where evicted to be transformed in yuppi restaurants and shops, people with low sources are getting displaced to the periphery, the airbnb are rising while the rents are becoming unbearable and the policies about how to use the public space are more repressive.
We, as Kyriakos did, can’t turn our eyes away of this process that destroys the city and the different communities living there. We, the ones that believe in a better world, want to go out of this precarity where the ones not conforming the norm are condemned. For this reason, as many other protest and answers are taking place in different cities, we want to stand against it and continue the path that we already walk with our friend and comrade Kyriakos. This path that cost his life. Him in our minds, his ideas in our hearts. Together taking back the streets of Berlin and Athens again. Revolutionaries hearts burn forever!
Freedom for our comrades Marianna M., Dimitra Z, Dimitris and Nikos R.!
Kyriakos Present!
Germany: Rigaer94 – Evictions kill DE/EN
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Heute sind in Spandau Poster und Flyer aufgetaucht, die auf die Geschehnisse vor Ort, vom 24. Juli 2023 aufmerksam machen sollen. Der Text von den Postern und Flyern ist der Folgende, die Poster findet ihr im Anhang:
Was sich am Dienstag, den 24. Juli am Brunsbüttler Damm in Spandau ereignet hat, ist kein Einzelfall sondern einer der vielen Momente, in denen sich das kapitalistische System in seiner mörderischen Konsequenz offenbart. Ein System, in dem das Recht auf Eigentum höher gewertet und vom Staat geschützt wird als das Bedürfnis eines Menschen, ein Dach über dem Kopf zu haben.
Wir wissen kaum etwas über die tödlichen Umstände oder was seine Ideen, ja wer der 62-jährige Mieter war, der sich mit einer Schusswaffe gegen seine Zwangsräumung wehrte und während des darauf folgenden SEK-Einsatzes sich selbst erschossen zu haben scheint. Und was wir wissen, ist vorher durch die Hände von Medien und Bullen gegangen und nicht aus der direkten Kommunikation entstanden. Doch auch ohne diese Informationen, können wir die Systematik hinter diesen Momenten erkennen. Und zwar, dass während Wohnungsbauunternehmen und Privateigentümer:innen tausender von Wohnungen fette Profite einstreichen, in Berlin die Mietpreise explodieren, das Angebot an Mietwohnungen äußerst knapp ist und gegenwärtige Krisen und Inflation Mieter:innen in eine äußerst prekäre Situation treiben, in der das monatliche Geld kaum für die Deckung aller Kosten reicht.
Zwangsräumungen sind alltäglicher Ausdruck einer stetig wachsenden Schere zwischen Arm und Reich. 2021 fanden in Berlin – allein schon laut offiziellen Zahlen – um die 1.668 Zwangsräumungen statt. Das sind mehr als 4 pro Tag. Die Verantwortung dafür tragen Hauseigentümer:innen, Politiker:innen, Richter:innen und Bullen, denn sie alle stehen auf der Seite des Unrechts. Dass ihre Entscheidungen Konsequenzen für das Leben von Mieter:innen haben, sie in die Verzweiflung und aus ihren gewohnten Nachbarschaften heraus in die Isolation, in Wohnungslosigkeit und eine Armutsspirale treiben können, ist dabei bewusste doch als nebensächlich betrachtete Folge. Indem sie, mit der politischen Rückendeckung von Seiten des Staates und mit Hilfe loyaler Diener:innen (den Bullen), wachsende Profite zur Priorität machen, greifen sie die unterste Klasse an. Immer wieder enden Zwangsräumungen tödlich, so wie:
* am 03.08.2022 in Köln, als Bullen Lousef B. während seiner Zwangsräumung erschossen
* am 31.05.2021 in Berlin, als sich Peter H. vor seiner Zwangsräumung das Leben nahm
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Die Rigaer lebt – an address to our friends and comrades
Thanks to every support that was developed during the last weeks and especially the last two days of preparation and collective fight against our common enemies, we managed to develop the most intensive fighting days that we could have imagined. Days which turned every plan from the state and capital into a catastrophy. A great reminder to ourselves, our collective and its supporters, how important the movement’s networks, infrastructures of solidarity and self-organisation are.
Starting with the defence of the neighbourhood against the establishment of the red zone we drew the right concequence out of the aggressions of the state and the real estate market, against the people living in the city. The announcement of dangerzones and red zones, where people get easy targets for the police in order to create an atmosphere of isolation and fear, has become normality in this city of the rich. We saw in the last years many occassions where we as those who are targeted by the states attacks had to stand in almost silent protest at the fences, guarded by a militarized police force. Let’s name the eviction of the Ohlauer School in Kreuzberg, the eviction of the Kiezladen Friedel54 and all the other projects as Syndikat, Meuterei and our neighboors Liebig34. This fact can not be tolerated anymore – the people have to rise up!
Therefore, as a result,for more than 48 hours, we managed all together, locally and decentrally to take the offensive into the streets and defend our structures and ideas through militant means and put pressure before the enemies had even started their repressive-operations. We decided not to wait for the lackeys of the state to create another zone where they can easily target autonomous structures and rebellious neighborhoods. That’s why an autonomous zone was build up around the Rigaer94 at an hour the cops did not expect. Streets got closed together with many people and a long-lasting defence of barricades happened, with the means of the autonomous movement . Until the deployment of heavy technical equipment as an eviction tank and two watercanons the police was not able to enter our street. Let’s understand these events as a proposal to the people in the metropolitan field and outside of it, to answer the upcoming attacks. Not only against Rigaer94, also against Köpi and all the other threatened projects and our ideas, as well as any attack of the state and its merely presence.
But the state and capital war is not over yet. They will not only attempt to attack Rigaer94 again but also attack and target every single structure and individual who fights against this suphocated society on a daily basis. We should continue getting organised and expand our networks of solidarity broader. We call for more intensive fighting not only around Nordkiez to reinforce the continuity of this rebellious neighborhood, but also decentrally, in every corner of the city.
Let’s continue fighting all together against the city of the rich. Until every initial plan from the state and capital are ashes!
Friends and comrades of Rigaer94
For more informations:https://rigaer94.squat.net/
Germany: An unsere Freund*innen in der R94 // To our friends in R94 GE/EN
To our friends in R94
This is our first summer without the Dorfi. Our first summer without you as neighbors. Sure, not everything was easy, but it doesn’t have to be, we have many great memories! Be it in a bathrobe on Dorfplatz to come over to you to shower, a water fight in the summer or just meet for a beer on our self-built benches, which the cops have stolen us again and again, but which were also welded again and again to the road.
Just in the last few days we noticed again how shitty it is not to live next to you on the corner. It hurts to not be able to support you from our house. While the fucking cops besiege our street, our neighborhood as if it were their territory. At the same moment we all had a big smile on our face as you instead of reacting just acted and the pigs were standing there completely surprised and the street has burned again so right!
We had great years together! And they are not over yet! We still have a lot of potential and energy to get the neighborhood back. We have seen in the last days how many people don’t want to live in a chic bourgy neighborhood with overpriced rents and a constant presence of cops. We have seen how many people on the street have the potential to attack this fucked up system and we have also seen that the cops are afraid of exactly that. This is shown by the fact that because of ten people who make a fire on the Rigaer at night, five cars full of robocops come. It also shows in the excessive repression they put on the day. They think they can break us, but they don’t realize that they are sowing the seeds that will turn us into insurgents.
We would like to call on everyone to support the Rigaer94 with all means, even now that supposed calm has returned. After all the years of direct neighborhood, the R94 is especially close to our hearts. As far as we know, the Rigaer94 is with us the only confessed and acting anarchist house in Berlin and it should be defended to the end.
We wish you a bit of peace and a lot of strength after the stressful days.
Solidarity greetings and kisses.
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Leipzig: For the uprising, For Rigaer94 – fire at house of police and prosecutor’s office
In our thoughts we were with the brave fighters of the autonomous zone Rigaer Straße when we set a fire at the Haus des Jugendrechts (House of Juvenile Justice, an institution where representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the police, the judicial assistance to youth and the City work together to repress and prevent “juvenile delinquency”) last night. Our solidarity will always be with the people who do not give up without a fight. Red Zones take whole neighborhoods under captivity and are one of the most effective means of counterinsurgency. The House of Juvenile Justice in Reudnitz, Leipzig is also an actor for the pacification of rebellious individuals, especially “juvenile intensive offenders” like us. In here, cops and prosecutors work hand in hand. That’s why we thought it was a good sign of solidarity to set fire to several tires and the door in front of the House of Juvenile Justice.
The House of Juvenile Justice has been hit several times in recent years. Whoever writes police and public prosecutor’s office big on the front door, will be attacked!
Much strength to Berlin for the coming days! Do not let the pigs rest!
From: Kontrapolis