Berlin police are considering legal action against Philipp Ruch, founder of the “Center for Political Beauty” (ZPS), after the disruption of AfD leader Alice Weidel’s ARD summer interview. The move is based on an as-yet unpublished response from the Senate Interior Administration to a query by the AfD parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, according to Tagesspiegel.
The review was triggered by comments Ruch made in the “Ronzheimer” podcast on 22 July 2025, in which he said: “We were actually there, yes we were—I don’t want to give any details now—in close coordination, of course, with the Berlin police, and were able to do what we had planned there.”
Police, according to the letter, strongly reject this account, saying there was no such coordination with officers. They are now considering “legal steps regarding this untrue factual allegation.” The protest action, which interrupted Weidel’s interview in Berlin, has fuelled a political debate over the limits of protest tactics.
