The Black Block in Hamburg had their own paramedics, and a network of attorneys working for them during the riots; Mayor of Hamburg a member of that network.

Vlad posted a video of Andreas Beuth, speaker, and attorney, of the Black Block Hamburg earlier, where Beuth says he has sympathies for looting and rioting, but not in Antifa’s own neighborhood, the Schanze, please:

Beuth is a criminal attorney, legal representative of the Rote Flora, and functioned as the speaker of the Black Block at the G20 protests.
He has been defending accused against the city of Hamburg in high-profile cases since the 90s, for example, antifa members who were accused of attempted murder (Plattenlegerprozess), Somali pirates who had hijacked a freight ship under German flag and therefore had come into German custody (Piratenprozess), and militant “refugees” (Lampedusa case), to name a few.

Poster for Lampedusa pro refugee protest

The Rote Flora, of which Beuth is the legal representative, opened in 1888 as „Theater Flora“, and has been a squat ever since 1989. The senate of Hamburg could just never bring themselves to evict it.
Officially a „cultural centre“, it is a hub of Antifa and „Autonomen“ (Black Block), and the scene of increasingly brutal clashes with the police on a regular basis.

The Rote Flora is situated in the Sternschanze quarter, short Schanze or Schanzenviertel. Many locals – not just Antifa – fondly call the Rote Flora “the heart of the Schanze”.

The Schanze was the scene of the most severe clashes with police during the anti G20 riots on Friday night. „Protesters“ had positioned themselves on roofs of buildings, and were throwing stones and molotov cocktails down on the police, as filmed here from a police helicopter with an infrared camera:

The riots at Schanze Friday night, seen from a roof top, on the right the Rote Flora with the Slogan “NO G20”

This was when the police had to retreat, which left residents defenseless against lootings and arsons for about an hour or two, until the special forces were able to move in at 11:30 PM and take back the Schanze, house after house, street after street.

Just a bit further down the street from the Rote Flora, there is the attorney’s office Schulterblatt 36.
Schulterblatt 36 are the legal representatives of the anti G20 protest “Welcome to Hell” on Thursday, the event where the escalation of violence began.
Watch the rain of bottles and stones going down on the police, while the protesters’ loudspeaker van is announcing that the police are„out of control“ and „attacking“ a peaceful legitimate protest:
https://vid.me/ySg8g

Should you find yourself getting arrested for attacking an officer, no worries, there is a helpline to call, the “Anwaltliche Nothilfe” (“Legal Emergency Aid”).

This “Legal Emergency Aid” was specifically founded for G20 protesters, by the “Anwaltsverein”, a far left attorney’s organization, and the “Rote Hilfe” (“Red Help”, a far-left prisoner support group). The website of the “Legal Emergency Aid” is multilingual and in English, as protesters were expected from all across Europe, and they describe their work at the G20 as follows:

“Lawyers from the Legal Team will be present at demonstrations and other protest actions to support participants in realizing and protecting their basic rights and, if necessary, to represent them vis-à-vis the police.

One central task of the Legal Team of Lawyers will be the representation of persons detained in the context of the protests against the summit in Hamburg. To fulfill this task, the Legal Team will be present at demonstrations and protest actions, but also in the detention centers (Gefangenensammelstellen, GeSa) in order to advise those detained and to represent them, above all in court hearings concerning their detention.”

 

But the service does not end with legal aid. According to a firefighters spokesman, the protesters had their own paramedics at the protests, and were treated in a base hospital in the Rote Flora if necessary.

The idea behind this is obviously that when you are injured in a violent confrontation with police, you do not want to show up in a hospital, where you will be identified.

The “Anwaltsverein”, who is behind the Emergency Aid, describe themselves as a civil rights organization. Note how bland their website is, although a closer look reveals how it is solely specializing in defending political extremists and criminals, and how they choose unsuspicious names for their endeavors like “Anwaltsverein”, (“Society of Lawyers”), “Anwaltliche Nothilfe” (“Legal Emergency Aid”), and even the almost governmental-sounding “Ermittlungsausschuss” (“Investigative Committee”).

But they have just been declared „dangerous“ by the Police of Hamburg (Hamburger Abendblatt, 07.07.17)

It will hardly surprise anyone familiar with circumstances in Hamburg that a daily newspaper like the respectable Hamburger Abendblatt employs a member of “Anwaltsverein” as a contributing writer, and gives the “Legal Emergency Aid” a video platform to attack the police.

And it won’t surprise you either then that that the mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz (SPD, Social Democrats), is a member of the “Anwaltsverein”, too.

Hamburg – Federal Police seized this equipment from a 20 year old “protester” Saturday afternoon. The second photo shows the leg injury a police officer sustained from a metal ball shot from a slingshot during the anti G20 “protests”. Another officer sustained a through-and-through-wound of the shoulder by such metal ball.
According to Police Hamburg’s statement on Facebook, they were under constant attack from slingshots, bricks and bottles.
The official count at midnight CET was 196 injured officers at the “protests” surrounding the G20 summit in Hamburg, the number should rise once it is updated. One officer sustained a fractured skull from an attack with an iron bar, another officer had to fire a warning shot in self defense.
There were 14 arrests and 63 temporary arrests made during the night from Friday to Saturday.

The most concerning aspect of all of this, of course, is, that it might be grist to the mills of the conservatives:

“The violent criminals of Hamburg might have the doubtful merit of causing a swing to the right that will surpass even Cologne!

In the end, the political Right will profit from violence, the aim of which is to discredit what peaceful globalism-critics are fighting for!”
(Ralf Stegner, SPD deputy and chairman, on Twitter)