Cat O’Brien envisioned at the scene of the demonstration in August 2025.
The 23-year-old is implicated of punching Kitty O’Brien in the nose throughout a pro-Palestine demonstration in 2015.
A BERLIN POLICE officer is to stand trial next week charged with attack in workplace over the supposed attack of Irish activist Kitty O'Brien throughout a pro-Palestine demonstration in 2015.
In a declaration to The Journala representative for the Berlin Criminal Courts verified that the trial of the 23-year-old officer, determined as Nils K, will start at Tiergarten District Court on Monday, 16 November.
A 2nd hearing is arranged for Wednesday, 18 November.
The officer is declared to have unjustifiably punched a demonstrator in the nose throughout a run-in on the night of 28 August 2025 on Rosenthaler Straße in Berlin-Mitte.
According to a declaration from the court, the supposed attack took place while the officer was reacting to an “unauthorised presentation associated to the Middle East dispute”, and the complainant “supposedly suffered facial discomfort” as an outcome.
O’Brien, a Dublin local who utilizes they/them pronouns, belongs to the project group Irish Bloc Berlin.
Video footage evaluated by The Journal in 2015 revealed an officer striking O’Brien before cops moved towards them and took them into custody.
The demonstration followed calls by pro-Palestine advocates to require to the streets over the killing of reporters by Israel in Gaza.
The event triggered worldwide condemnation, consisting of issues raised by Irish diplomatic authorities with German authorities.
At the time, Tánaiste Simon Harris stated the Irish ambassador in Germany “communicated my issue about the event and asked the German authorities to examine additional”.
Berlin cops likewise referred the event to the system accountable for examining supposed offenses by policeman.
At the time, cops declared O’Brien had actually disregarded orders to distribute and physically withstood arrest. They stated officers had actually been “obliged to utilize targeted strikes”, including that 94 individuals went through “restraint steps” throughout the demonstration.
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