MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At around 9 a.m. local time [07:00 GMT] police broke up an unauthorized sit-in protest on Wilhelmstrasse, a central thoroughfare, using tear gas, the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper reported.
Several protesters were detained for attempting to gain entry to the Federal Ministry of Labor, according the media.
The protest was organized by the left-wing Blockupy movement which came to prominence in March 2015 for staging anti-austerity protests in Frankfurt.
Over 1.1 million migrants and refugees entered Germany in 2015 after Europe was hit by a flow of mostly Middle Eastern and North African refugees fleeing war and poverty in their home countries.
