Muhammet Ikbal Arslan and Gizem Nisa Demir<\/p>\n
12 October 2025\u2022Update: 13 October 2025<\/p>\n
BERN\/ISTANBUL<\/p>\n
Swiss police intervened Sunday in a pro-Palestinian demonstration held in the capital, Bern.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people gathered in the city center to take part in the rally in support of Palestine.<\/p>\n
Tensions escalated when protesters began marching toward the Federal Parliament building, prompting police intervention.<\/p>\n
Authorities cordoned off the area surrounding the parliament and blocked the demonstrators\u2019 advances, placing part of the crowd under containment.<\/p>\n
Carrying Palestinian flags, the protesters chanted slogans such as \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and \u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the protest, a fire broke out nearby, and firefighters were dispatched to the scene to bring it under control.<\/p>\n
Later, some demonstrators attempted to block the city\u2019s central train station, but police, who had established tight security perimeters, prevented them from doing so.<\/p>\n
Officers used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of people gathered in the area. Additional police units from other cantons were deployed to assist.<\/p>\n
In a statement posted on its account on the US social media company X, Bern police said they were forced to mobilize resources due to extensive property damage reported in several locations.<\/p>\n
The post also said that the demonstration had taken place without official authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muhammet Ikbal Arslan and Gizem Nisa Demir 12 October 2025\u2022Update: 13 October 2025 BERN\/ISTANBUL Swiss police intervened Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8495,104,2491,31339,31338,1730,31337,5343,13236],"class_list":{"0":"post-56035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-anti-israel","9":"tag-bern","10":"tag-demonstration","11":"tag-federal-parliament","12":"tag-free-palestine","13":"tag-palestine","14":"tag-pro-palestinian","15":"tag-protest","16":"tag-swiss-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116472226949538194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}