A 4000-strong demonstration with participants from a wide section of society started at around 1 pm. The demo participants expressed their disgust with the right-wing city government, which had evicted the 'Bauwagenplatz' Bambule 2 weeks before and have since then deployed large numbers of riot police everywhere in town. When a few hours later the demonstration approached the former site of the Bambule in the neighbourhood 'Karoviertel', police tried to divide the demonstration with large numbers of riot police and attacked it with water cannons.

For a while groups of protesters resisted the attack, throwing stones and bottles, then moved back into the (traditionally, or rather: formerly) alternative, left-wing neighbourhood 'Schanzenviertel'. Barricades were erected, slowing down police movements. Groups of riot police and snatch squads started to run down streets and catch everyone they could. People living in houses along those streets commented these actions with shouts of "Police, piss off!", "We don't want you here!", "We don't want police in our neighbourhood!". In some streets hundresd of people were shouting "Bambule, Bambule!". Everywhere police was made clear that they had no support whatsoever by many of those living in the area.

During the past hour confrontations have spread into other parts of the city. There are snatch squads everywhere, some of them with dogs.

Today's demonstration follows a large number of demonstrations and actions which have taken place since the eviction of Bambule.