Welcome to Hell - Hafenstraße

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The tall tenements of St. Pauli Hafenstraße, covered in giant murals and slogans, were built around 1900, squatted from late 1981 and turned into Germany's most famous symbol of the autonomous left. In November 1987 their residents barricaded the street for eight days while around 6,000 riot police and border guards stood ready to clear them, until Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi pledged his office on a lease deal and the barricades came down without bloodshed. Thirty years later, the flood wall in front of these houses became the stage for one of the most notorious nights in modern Hamburg. On 6 July 2017, the eve of the G20 summit, around 12,000 people gathered at the nearby Fischmarkt for the 'Welcome to Hell' march, with about 1,000 masked militants dressed in black at its head. Barely 100 metres along this narrow road, water cannons, an armoured clearing vehicle and lines of riot police blocked the way and demanded that the masks come off. When they stayed on, bottles flew, the police moved in, and trapped marchers scrambled up the flood wall to escape. The march never resumed. Instead, riots spread through St. Pauli and Altona deep into the night, with burning cars and smashed shop windows, and by the next morning police reported 76 officers injured. Who escalated first is still debated today, but the images went around the world before the summit had even begun.

Fatti principali

• 12000 demonstrators — Police counted around 12,000 people at the 'Welcome to Hell' march on 6 July 2017, the eve of the G20 summit.
• 100 metres — The march got only about 100 metres from the Fischmarkt before water cannons and riot police blocked it along this flood wall.
• 76 officers injured — Hamburg police reported 76 officers injured by the morning after the first night of rioting.

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