The police have begun to clear the occupied trees in Berlin's Wuhlheide. The tree squatters describe themselves as queer feminist activists.
They want to use the action in Köpenick to prevent about 15 hectares of forest from being cleared for the construction of the planned road "Tangential Connection East" The first people had already left the protest camp, said a police spokeswoman around eight o'clock, about two hours after the start of the operation. The police assumed a total of about a hundred people in tree houses, tripods and tents.