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The State s Revenge – Arnim Stauth Article on the revenge prosecution of squatters by the West German state in the 1980s. Originally published in Die Tageszeitung (4 January 1985). The present wave of criminal charges being brought against peace demonstrators is being followed closely by the media, but the crusade launched by The Berlin Public Prosecutor s Office against ex-squatters barely gets a mention in the press. Squatting is out ; last November the last of the houses had been either evicted or legalised and Innensenator Lummer could declare that this dark chapter in the history of the city was closed. However, the Political Department of the Public Prosecutor s Office in Moabit is still very active. Approximately 1,000 people whom the police have arrested in squatted houses are being charged with Hausfriedensbruch (literally meaning: breach of the peace of a house/closest equivalent In English law would be criminal trespass ) often in conjunction with resisting the

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