JAKARTA - Pro-Palestinian activists scaled the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. They also unfurled a large banner calling for an end to the genocide in Palestine.
The chronology began when six activists drove a cherry picker truck equipped with a lift to the crowded tourist square on Thursday afternoon local time.
Upon arrival, three of them immediately used the lift to reach the top of the 26-meter-high Brandenburg Gate.
"It happened very quickly," said Berlin police spokesman Florian Nath at the scene, as quoted by AFP on Friday, November 14.
"We arrived there in a matter of minutes, but the lift was already on its way, and we didn't stop it immediately because it was too dangerous if something happened or people fell," he continued.
Activists atop the Brandenburg Gate unfurled a banner reading "Never again genocide—freedom for Palestine." They also lit flares and chanted slogans.
Meanwhile, three other activists locked themselves in the cabin of a truck. Police then broke the truck's windows to forcibly detain them.
The activists atop the Brandenburg Gate were finally taken down and detained after a special police rescue team scaled the structure.
"The operation lasted about an hour and a half," Nath said.
Nath said the six activists were detained based on suspicion of trespassing.
He added that investigators were still examining whether the cherry picker truck had damaged the 18th-century gate.
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