FBI - Fire Department - Police

May 05, 1973 - Hamburg: Police clears occupied house: 45 policeman in civilian clothes of a mobile operation and 60 men in uniform of the Hamburg police attacked in a blitz a larger group of youth had held occupied since April19. a squad of almost 400 men had been drawn near the house to interior if necessary. Transportable leaders, compressed air hammers and tear gas had not to be used. polics occupied the house within 10 minutes, ra all rooms and arrested, temporarily 70 persons, 24 of them women. During the clearance action 5 policemen and 12 tenants were injured, one of them being in bad condition. In the beginning the tenants had offered strong resistance fighting the police in the stair-case. Photo shows one demonstrant is being arrested

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