Berlin police arrested three men who demonstrated with the Palestinian flag in the Reichstag.
Unknown people replaced it with the German national flag. The incident happened at 11:15 local time in front of many tourists, the "Bild" newspaper reports. One of the attackers climbed the flagpole and raised the Palestinian flag, while two accomplices coordinated his actions from the ground and filmed the incident.
Emergency forces arrived at the scene. To remove the intruder and the foreign flag, firefighters had to deploy a large ladder truck. The operation took about an hour. The police are investigating the motives of the detainees.