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More than 40 demonstrators gathered outside the Rheinmetall building in Berlin to protest the company's plans to construct a factory in the city. Protesters stated that the planned facility would produce weapons intended for use against Palestine and Lebanon. Approximately 70 police officers were deployed to monitor the gathering.
Prominent activist Greta Thunberg was taken into custody by German police on Monday after joining a protest organized by the group "Peacefully against Genocide." During the demonstration, Thunberg emphasized the urgency of the cause, declaring, "We have the duty to end our complicity in genocide and mass killings."
Demonstrators glued their hands to the ground near the Brandenburg Gate to protest German arms exports. They also carried a poster that read "No profit from genocide."
A total of eleven people were briefly in police custody on Monday. The group announced on its website a week of protest in Berlin, which is to last until Wednesday.
“Rheinmetall systematically supports a genocide,” says Laila Fuisz, spokeswoman for the Peacefully Against Genocide group. She accuses Rheinmetall of providing weapons to Israel.
“We wanted to block the office because there are people sitting there who make decisions on a daily basis to continue to support the killing of people,” Fuisz continued.
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