Berlin faces challenge in clearing refugee protest camp by Andrew Bowen

A group of several hundred asylum seekers, most of them African men, has been occupying a plaza and an abandoned school in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district for nearly a year and a half now. They’re protesting European and German asylum laws. Things like how in Germany, an asylum seeker is not allowed to cross state borders after his or her application is submitted. Or how they’re virtually banned from working while they wait for an answer from authorities. Berlin city officials recently said they’ve reached an agreement with a majority of the protesters to voluntarily clear out the protest camp. But in reality, things are a bit more complicated.