Pursuits
Berlin’s Tacheles Cleared of Squatters on Prime Mitte Site
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Artists squatting in Berlin’s Tacheles building, a former department store that had become a tourist attraction, were evicted by the banks that control the site in the city’s fashionable Mitte district.
Dozens of police officers stood guard today as bailiffs seized the property on behalf of lenders with claims on the site including HSH Nordbank AG. Tacheles, in former communist East Berlin, was taken over by squatters in 1990, when Germany was reunified. The building had been slated for demolition.