This is a statement from the Chaosti (previously known as Ostapotheke) which is linked to W1. We are more or less connected and try to organize a community. We are more than a flat share in a random building and less than a self-organized constant housing project. Our statement concerns a 2 year conflict with Dalia, a person who lived in the house, which forced us to make the decision to kick her out in September 2025. This is our first public statement, while Dalia has already shared information about the situation several times on social media. This statement is intended to explain our perspective on the conflict and to make our decision to kick her out of the house transparent. We will focus on the recent and most important events, as it is impossible to put everything that happened in one statement. Mistakes have been made on both sides. We address Dalia with the pronouns she/they because that is our last stand on the pronouns she uses, we do not mean harm by doing so, in case this has changed. To understand the conflict and the decision as a whole, it was necessary to write such a detailed statement. We hope that we (including our readers) can collectively reflect on the situation and learn from it together as it concerns those who, like us, have the utopia of resolving conflict situations without hierarchies and authority. In our situation, this felt quite impossible and questions remain unanswered like: How do we collectively deal with individuals who no longer communicate but repeatedly attack the other side and refuse to leave the space/community? How can we deal with such situations collectively without involving state and repressive institutions?

Chronology of the most important events during the conflict with Dalia
Around 2 years ago (Oct./Nov. 2023), Dalia arrives in the Chaosti, in the flat commonly called ‘hostel’, that is at the time pretty well connected to the house, we see the inhabitants more or less often in the plenaries and hang out at house fun gathering and parties. The contact is fine. At first we saw Dalia in a few plenaries and engaged in conversation, at that time we were figuring out a common stance on Palestine solidarity in our house. Most of the white people in the house were silent. At this time Dalia’s words were supported by other BIPoC in the house, leading to a process of people reflecting more actively on their racism and their positioning on the topic of Palestine. Dalia started to write very general call outs without names to the house chat accusing the house and its residents of racism, transphobism etc., when asked for concrete situations to be able to understand how and at what levels it takes place to be able to fight it, nothing was given. Then a certain dynamic began provoking the firsts disagreement between Dalia and the house: something is discussed in plenary, a decision is made, it is shared in a general chat with a protocol, Dalia comments in the chat after reading the protocol, expressing her disagreement with the decision and putting vetos through the chat thus blocking house structures that are already slow. Beyond her disagreement with the content, her language is aggressive, mixing personal insults with accusations formulated in general political language. Insults have generally never been responded to with insults. There have been requests to use less aggressive language, or at least language free of insults, these requests are followed by accusations of tone policing and further insults while she still doesn’t attend the plenaries so there is no form of mutual reconnecting and no way to work on compromises or neither did she accept small groups talk to work on the conflicts. Despite frustration for a way of communicating and interacting, the accusations at the political level are taken seriously, and collective processes are undertaken (anti-ra-workshops, dedicated plenary sessions, accountability-discussions within individual apartments). A general climate of fear of saying something wrong/tone policing towards a non-white person spreads, and for months on end nothing happens except sporadic repetitions of similar dynamics of verbal violence that end up in a vacuum as those who suffer them in most cases do not respond in any way. People became afraid of confronting Dalia for unjustified hateful behavior because it always resulted in being accused of racism, ableism, white supremacism and so on. Never came a response to the repeated offer of a different set up to talk in person about the problems that were evoked in the chat, not even with proposed mediation or the possibility of her bringing some support. In this time Dalia was always out of our process and kept going over consensus: not there in plenary, not complying to collective decisions, doing things on her own that implies the house’s public image. For example Dalia banned SfP (Students for Palestine) without consultation or even informing the house, which we found out after SfP asked us whether or which kind of a process would be possible so that they could use our rooms again. She was spraying tags and writing words all around the house common spaces and put banners on the house without asking for house consent, trespassing group agreement. That doesn’t mean that the house was against the content but that points out she didn’t bother to ask first which is a house rule that applies to everyone. As time passes in the house, and as part of processing this content, priority access (in terms of who moves in) in the house is given to BIPOC and FLINTA* people. A new phase follows in which more and more non-white people enter the house and become active in the plenary and in the organization of events and collective life in general. In the following times the previously named dynamics of verbal aggression occur in chats again. This time, when an opinion diverging from Dalia’s it faces accusations of white supremacy when it comes from white people and for PoCs it is said that they are being “white brainwashed”. In this way, Dalia denies their capacity for intellectual and emotional autonomy and presents them as manipulated by the white supremacists, as soon as they have conflicts and/or opinions and modus operandi different from those of Dalia. Even in this phase, Dalia practically never takes part in plenary meetings, but is active in organizing events. Verbal aggression dynamics develop with more and more people inside the house, and in a plenary meeting, a non-white, queer person, then close to Dalia, informally communicates a kind of call-out in which Dalia’s behavior is defined as extremely manipulative, bullying, egocentric, and intimidating. This person, although close to Dalia at the time and committed to offering her help, was afraid of Dalia and locked their bedroom door at night because of this situation. This person also left the house shortly afterwards. From October/November 2024, Dalia started posting very problematic stories on her insta (public) like directly tagging official German government accounts with threats of assasination (like mentioning prime minister with: you deserve a bullet to the head) or threat of destruction. This puts the house and all of our solidarity work and political activism in unnecessary danger. In those months, discontent among several people in the house grew following the repeated occurrence of incidents such as “gratuitous insults in chats.”. The connection to Dalia and housemates that lived in the flat prior to Dalia’s move-in got more and more rare, those people quoted that they felt other house mates were fearing them.

Spring 2025

By Spring 2025 we arrived at a situation where Dalia and her compagnons/flatmates are completely isolated to the house project, they are not part of organising and meetings and call us out from time to time in the house chat and publicly on telegram or instagram. This distance was not a wish from the house but was a process that happened naturally as they kept distancing themselves and perpetuating this aggressive behaviour without being open to finding any solutions together. From then on we didn’t have any info on who moves in and out of the hostel and who currently lives there. Around this time we figured out that X and X moved in as well. We kept trying to invite Dalia to plenary meetings to find common ground, understand the reasons for her discontent, and find ways to work together. Dalia never showed up. And even begins to conduct a campaign through social media and political group chats, in which the house is defamed as a place of white supremacists even though the people with whom Dalia begins to be in open conflict and who ‘dare’ to respond to her accusations are mainly non-white. In general, for years it was never possible to organize circumstances in which Dalia’s arguments for discontent or proposals for change could be heard in person, unless one was identified as a “white supremacist” or “whitewashed,” and in addition to this, one had to find out on social media what Dalia’s positions were. At the same time, people who were totally prejudiced against the house, moved into Dalia’s apartment and were clearly brought in to support Dalia’s “personal battle” against the house, even though it has always remained partially unclear and vague on the part of the house what kind of “battle” it was, what fueled it, and what kind of goals it had. Several people who entered the Hostel, openly ignored all the other people in the house outside their apartment from the very beginning and ignored messages aimed at creating connections, such as the notification that there was a “buddy” in the house willing to introduce the person to our facilities and remain available for assistance, etc. This was followed over time by these people finally showing up in chat dynamics, exclusively to repeat Dalia’s accusations word for word, or, even beyond confrontations based on serious content, simply gratuitous provocations, as in the case of X, who communicated in chat with people who were almost totally unknown, since no one had ever had contact with this person before, addressing them in a provocative and condescending manner. For the people in the house in general, it was a source of frustration and concern to see people moving in who were absolutely not interested in establishing any relationships, not interested in offering any mediation or framework for meeting, not interested in collaborating in activism and event creation, and moreover with an openly hostile attitude and the specific aim of creating a community within the house, appearing only in open conflicts in chats with assumptions such as “house of white supremacists and brain-washed non whites” etc. without ever having had anything personally to do with anyone. Over time, this attitude resulted in increasingly stronger hate speech. Despite this, the house made space and various equipment available to these people if they wanted to organize something in the shared Bar Space.

May/june 2025
In May/June 2025, a Palestine refugee S. came to our house in need of a soli-room (with no rent to pay), as one person living in the hostel was paying for a room but not living there. It was agreed with all other flatmates that S. moved in. The agreement was set for a duration of 2 months. After 6 weeks, S. called a house resident because he was having fights with Dalia. One of the main points of the conflict was that the hostel became the mtf (militant trans fems) meeting room and S. was denied access to the common room because of the meetings, and reported being treated badly. There was an exchange of verbal insult and threat of physical violence both from Dalia and S. against each other. The hostel flat decided to kick him out immediately, when he was relying on this room where no money was needed. People living in the house got informed of the situation and started to interfere. The situation ended in S. having to go out and an immediate housing solution had to be found by a fellow house resident. There was no process, no talk, no accountability for the mental violence and people from the house that helped S. got targeted from Dalia’s side to start new conflicts. This added to ongoing conflicts and seemingly reported the issue on a personal level between Dalia and 2/3 house residents (F.,Sh.,Sl.). The rest of the house failed to recognise this as a whole house issue and left those few people on the frontline of Dalia’s battle against the house. Those people had a personal relationship to Dalia and further conflict escalated, including one time where our social media phone broke and the two people having access to the login data where Dalia and one of said house residents (F.). Regrettably both lost the access data and so the house lost the access to our official bar instagram account. On this occasion, Dalia accused F. of being a supremacist with a security oriented mind. Later, Dalia claimed that F. was building a white empire in the house. When Sh. interfered to remind that this safety system was a collective decision agreed by everybody, Dalia accused F. of “having Sh. ’s thong” and that Sh. was as a PoC being controlled by a white person. Sh. and Dalia both come from Egypt and before conflicts had a friendship relation, where they bonded. After all those escalations and conflict, Dalia asked Sh. to work on fixing their relationship, to which Sh. peacefully communicated that for him it was too late, too much damage done and that he didn’t wish that. After that they didn’t have private communication except for conflicts on house topics. Sh. remained to be one of the only persons with F. and Sl. to answer Dalia’s unjustified hateful messages in the chat and took over the house conflict on their shoulder. Once again, the house failed to see that as a house issue. After that Dalia kept on picking solo fights on Sh. and F. for example going to their political groups
to call them out. They lost friends because of that as for example some of their friends were sent away from the demonstration for Lorenz by the awareness team for the sole fact of being friends with F. or Sh.. Another time during this time period, a friend of Dalia went to one floor after midnight and knocked every door (also room doors, not only apartment’s doors) to ask for weed without explaining their situation or introducing themselves. People have then communicated in a friendly way in the house chat that such situations trigger discomfort and that people from outside the house should not just go into apartments during the night to ask for weed. These events could have stayed there as people communicated in a non violent way their needs and wishes for the future so that such an uncomfortable situation doesn’t happen again. But X and X used this occasion to send aggressive messages in the chats, claiming that it was ableist and racist to say that. House residents recognised that weed can be suitable for handling stressful situations, as they never intended to say the contrary, they just stated not wanting strangers knocking at their room door in the middle of the night. X and X then went on insulting the housemate that addressed the issue, this made it very clear where they stand to the house. Later on a small event in our location was attended by X, X, and a couple of
other unknown people. At some point of the event, using a microphone taken from the bar, they hurled insults at people in the house, most of whom were once again non-white, and provocatively called them by their names preceded by “fuck.”. The event came to an end when some of the insulted people came down from their apartments, a verbal confrontation between the two groups took place with an exchange of insults, and the people from the hostel were ordered to leave the bar and the equipment. In this circumstance, these people stole the microphone that was being used and took it to their apartment. The house’s response to this offensive and provocative behavior was to change the lock on our bar and therefore prohibit these people from using it. At this point, Dalia’s behavior began to be openly questioned in plenary session, and it was decided (with considerable delay) to consider the issue as a real problem to be given a certain degree of priority. Once again, offers were made to meet, including the possibility of external mediation, but these offers were again rejected. Its also worth mentioning the accusation, made by both Dalia and X, that Black people in this house are being „exploited“ or „weaponised“ by the house, while these mentioned people being part of the soli-structure of the house, some of them for months or years, some of them being integrated in different wg-social lives and having different friendships in the house, other being more focused on their paths.

Houseraid
A further level of escalation was reached when, during a conflict in a chat, Dalia threatened the household by exploiting a possible future police intervention. Dalia told us that she is now facing a deportation threat, this comes partly from her posting about “burning down state institutions and killing politicians“ on social media while tagging political representatives and institutions. Before that she had a legal visa, being able to study and financially stable due to her background of wealthy family. Dalia referred to this as a means of punishing us if we “did not fight alongside Dalia for Dalia’s battle.” To this, one person in the house responded by pointing out that, beyond the conflict that had now arisen between us, Dalia and friends should consider such content seriously and responsibly and think twice before using something like this as a “punitive” tool against us, since several people (mostly black and brown people) with sensitive legal situations live in the house. To this, X literally replied with the phrase “any method of resistance is legitimate against oppression.” This phrase was uttered by a person who had just entered the house at the time and became part of a general tendency to abandon content-messages in their communication in favor of a tone exclusively laden with slogans, abstract phrases, or phrases taken from other contexts and pasted onto concrete circumstances in a confusing and manipulative way. In other circumstances, when faced with attempts at explanation, questions, etc., these responses were answered exclusively with hashtags followed by nothing else. This also brought a high level of frustration. During the same period, these people began to call their apartment “ the revolutionary space.” Over time, these clashes in the chats led to a higher tone on both sides. Meanwhile, a mother with a four-year-old child moved into the Hostel flat, even though it was located directly above our event space and was therefore exposed to noisy events 2-4 times a month, and despite the fact that a police raid was expected in the apartment this autumn. It is a common agreement in the house as well that it is not fit and stable enough to host a child.

Suweida soli party on the 23 .08.2025 as a peak of the conflict
On the 23th of august, members of the Suweida community from Leipzig organized, with the help of one house resident, a soli party for people of Suweida, while the city was under siege and people were being killed every moment. They were making a fundraiser event to send money to their families living in Suweida. There were BIPoC artists sharing and selling their art to raise money for their families in Suweida, people who came to the party were mostly from Suweida as well. At 2 a.m., Dalia wrote on one of our group chats: „Please turn down the music, at least half the volume. A child is asleep. And Black people are trying to survive but you’re contributing to the material conditions that enslave them.“. After Dalia sent the message, the party organising team lowered the sound and sent Dalia a message which didn’t get any reply. It’s very common and usual that the night manager is asked to turn down the volume, it’s an agreement that as soon as someone complains the volume will be turned down. We do this in order to respect people’s needs as much as we can. The situation didn’t need any mention of oppression because this is not what was happening: It’s important to mention that having parties in the house is a regular consented event that happens frequently twice a month at least and is well known by all the residents. The house that is structurally delivered to hold events in order to pay the rent for solidarity infrastructure and to raise funds for political purposes. Dalia herself before causing problems and being denied using the house common space organised her own events that also lasted till 4 am as usual. Dalia weaponized a child and mother that night, as we know from their flatmate that the child was actually asleep during the whole event. Dalia took a mother and her child to her flat, without informing her about the house’s lifestyle and without informing the house that a child moved in. Not seeking consensus with the other members of the house on such a fragile issue, and not even bothering to communicate even briefly that we are living with a four-year-old child, seemed to us to be extremely irresponsible behavior and possibly another tool to possibly create ground for conflict and accusations. Had we known about this in advance, we could have found new solutions together. Perhaps the same event in question could have been organized, even by speaking with the organizers, in a different way. After the party continued, Dalia came down the stairs and suddenly cut the power,
leaving around one hundred people in the dark. This happened twice. When people noticed the electricity cut for the second time, some went to the switch, turned it on and built a barrier out of boxes full of bottles around the electricity box. Dalia went down and tried to tear down the barriers. Two other people were there and saw the whole thing while they said that at some points the barrier made of heavy metal sheet and full alcohol bottles were going to fall on them. At this point Sh. came into the situation, here are his words that he shared in a full length statement directed to the house to describe what then happened :

Triggerwarning for the next part: physical violence

« I heard the noise and saw the light going out. I got super angry, I was intoxicated and rushed into the whole way and grabbed Dalia by the her t-shirt pinning her to the ground and shouting that you better go back up to your room or it will get ugly ” ﻲﻌﻠطا قوﻓ عﻼطﻻ نﯾد كﻣا ” then I grabbed her by the neck with one arm and by the t-shirt with the other and set her up on her foot and pushed her up. At this moment plenty of people were already there and came between us to take Dalia up. I was so angry and fueled by the hate I have for this person because of months of harm and offenses they caused to me, the house and people dear to me, I know I miss handled the situation and caused so much harm ,I take full responsibility for my actions and acknowledge that this was not my place and I wasn’t the person and this wasn’t the way to handle it ». After that Dalia returned to her apartment. Shortly thereafter, a person from the hostel appeared through the window and used one of the microphones that they stole from our bar and started shouting at the audience of the party, who were then in the backyard, began shouting accusations that white people were torturing People of Color with their shitty white music. The audience, mostly unaware of what was happening, was predominantly non-white. The organizers and performers were mostly Syrian. Meanwhile, the hostel launched a social media campaign accusing it of anti-Black racism and white violence against Black people, in an attempt to mobilize people to stop this „supposedly white“ event. Calling the crowd consisting mainly of Syrian and Arab immigrants with different residential status „white supremacists and colonizers “ mentioning Sh. name and where he lives and calling for support. They wrote a SOS call on Leipzig emergency groups and called to attack the house and protect them which resulted in stopping the event and evacuating the audience for safety. As far as we know, no one came.

Following the Suweida Soli party :
The morning after we had an emergency meeting in the house to discuss what happened and what is going to happen. Sh. didn’t attend this meeting. A trial is subsequently held within the home to decide the consequences of Sh.’s act of violence. At the same time, an attempt is made to establish contact with Dalia, as a victim of this violence, to check in
how she is feeling. Meetings and dialogue are offered. At this point, it should be said that we are so sorry for all the people who attended this event and had to witness this incident, we have an internal process in the house to acknowledge the violence and make the involved people accountable. During the following week Dalia approached some of the other housemates (some met by coincidence on the stairs and some sent her apologizing messages to check on her yet none of them she initiated or started the conversation). She agreed to talk to someone from the house with whom she appeared with X. During this meeting she never took accountability of anything claiming that for the last 2 years and half at least she didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t harm anyone and that she demands more space in the house and to be in control of our events and their duration and to have a say of people moving in and out of the house and those who didn’t agree with that received shouts and threats. Out of this meeting came as well the information out, that she has a plan to where to crash in case of police raid. Few days later, Dalia and X went in the evening out of the house with big flags (pan african and palestinian), stayed a while in front of Makan and as house resident (including Sh. and Sl.) chilled on the other side of the street, they stared in their direction. After a while of this failed intimidation maneuver they came back in and met another house resident. They proceed out of nowhere to accuse him of being a racist and a white supremacist. Later someone told us that Dalia accused them of being a spy of the ‘Verfassungsschutz’. In the following days, Dalia suddenly shows signs of openness towards the home for the first time in two years. She declares that she has her own plans for using the bar and that the home can essentially follow her vision. The attitude is perceived as condescending and authoritarian, especially after reaching a point where several people in the house find themselves living in a state of fear, paranoia and constant emotional emergency because of
Dalia, her verbal aggression, her promises of retaliation, and in general because of the general feeling of dealing with a person who in years has never shown herself open to making herself accountable for even a single concrete action of her own, who has never shown interest in the psycho-physical state of people involved in clashes with her, who
through a constantly self-victimizing language constantly manipulates the people around her, especially with the use of social networks and narrative frames in the form of monologues, who has no qualms about publicly defaming, putting at risk the legal and existential status of people who live in her house and have nothing to do with this matter, who exploits every possible circumstance, including the presence of a mother with her child in her apartment, which in the simplest and most profound form of the issue proves to be opposed to dialogue and listening, and relentlessly focused on her own voice, her own unquestionable truth, calling every criticism „racism and transphobia“ it doesn´t matter if it the targeted critic comes from a Person of Color and/or queer or trans. On the other side she refuses opposition to her aggressive, harming and harrowing language, delegitimizing any defense as „racism through tone policing.“. From her side there is no boundary for her to attack and no right for others to defend. Plenty of times during parties or friends gathering Dalia openly said that she is having fun by sending offensive messages to white people just because they
are white. But in this multilayered conflict it has been especially BIPoC’s lives that are threatened by Dalia’s political experiment on this house. Here are some words of one of our house resident:
« We, the BIPoC’s in this house also have a story, and our stories and lives are not less valuable than hers. We have family members right now kidnapped, killed, tortured in the ongoing massacre in the Middle East. I am writing this letter who knows Dalia from very close. I study physics with her, we fighted for Palestine cause with her and I live in the same house with her. For peoples information: Dalia is coming from a wealthy educated family, her family is safe, her life is safe but she is playing the victim to have power over peoples emotions. She is endangering peoples lives who lost their families in the war, who are queer and BIPoC just as Dalia. But unlike Dalia we don’t write to German authorities that we are going to “burn down” their buildings. Our priority is to deliver help to people in Middle East
who are under siege, who are being killed right now. We protect ourselves so we can make more change in the system.» This is the point at which most of the people in this house, united, despite their varied flaws and never ending mistakes, by the attempt, at least, to be reactive to constructive inputs and to try as much as possible to join forces and engage in political activism together at a time when it is needed more than ever, no longer felt ready to share this space with this person, whose manipulative skills and many provoked fights have consumed more of this house’s time than any other issue for over two years. So, a few weeks ago, Dalia was openly told in the chat she was not welcome in the house and that she must find another place asap. We didn’t receive a response. More than a week from 12.09. a letter was sended to her from the house officially asking her to move out, quoting what was stated here previously. To this we never got an answer as well.

Triggerwarning: sexual violence (not described, only mentioned)
Shortly thereafter, someone confided in us that in a conversation with Dalia, she admitted to having raped two people. We received further inside information about Dalia’s behaviour toward her flatmate. What we, till now, thought was a “friendly living together and fighting against us” situation was revealed to us from someone living there that they all suffer from occasionally terrorising from Dalia and are manipulated. This person was able to realise that only by being out of the flat for sometimes and having someone to talk to. They recognised the patterns of manipulation and isolation. Hearing this report in a house meeting, alarmed the house residents and pushed a sense of urgency stronger with the fact that we knew the expulsion of Dalia would be incoming from the first of October, endangering many people in the house. We have been preparing for weeks for the case of police coming in and for us to protect many vulnerable people from police violence. One of the evident measures to assure this protection was for Dalia not to live and be registered here anymore. We had to work on that as we never got an answer or information on Dalia’s side to as wether or not she successfully worked on delaying or canceling the deportation. Months before that when we learned about it we had to acknowledge that trying supporting her at this time would only meet resistance or be for us to take on a human shield role, which we could not offer. We decided to write a letter in which we requested her to move out, with justification, why Dalia should move out. In addition, because no reply was received, we decided, due to the urgency of the houseraid and the lack of cooperation, to take legal action via the landlord to cancel her contract officially. At this point, the house convened an emergency meeting, and in an extremely hasty manner, driven by a sense of urgency and gravity mixed with fear and insecurity, that regarding this and all prior events we described, we had to take the necessary measures to make her leave.

Friday 12.09.25. Kicking out
On Friday 12th September in a further house meeting we received the information that the landlord cancelled her contract officially and that the letter was sent 2 days ago, so it should have arrived. The plenary planned to go into Dalia’s flat to communicate her, that she has to leave the house immediately, in a desperate attempt to have her out before the 1st of October and in general as soon as possible because we all lived in fear of her putting her online threats like ‘you will bow down to me’, ‘I’ll burn this house down’,… and were fed up with communication being non existent or constantly rejected. We had reached the point of going to her with as many house members as possible to show her that we all mean it when we ask her to move out, and to underline the emergency of it. We changed the lock of the front house door and put some security on our electric board (the hostel board is separate and was not locked up). Once we were in the flat we asked clearly but non aggressively for Dalia to get out. We wished on having her as well as X and X out (but only that they are out physically, not directly with all the furniture etc., as this of course would have been an impossible request and that we planned on communicating afterward regarding the organisation of the actual move out) and knew she’d have some place to crash to (from a talk she had with one housemate after the incident at the Suweida soliparty). We then sat in the living room doing nothing but waiting. It is important to mention that Sh. was in that flat and that was a mistake, it was not according to the agreements of the house on the matter of
Sh. having to keep physical distance to Dalia. She and X proceeded to film us saying we are murderers and supremacists. At some points verbal exchanges got heated and both sides began shouting at each other. We decided this was going nowhere but to physical escalation and so to avoid that we went out and cut the electricity. As we never planned to use a form of physical violence to get her out we just waited on the staircase. For us it was clear that anybody wanting to get out of the house would have a safe exit through the staircase. Again a bit of communication on their side toward us could have helped keep a non-escalated situation. For the house it was very clear (and that’s what we waited for in those stairwells) that if they show any sign of wanting to move out we would be open to discussing the terms and agreement of that, the immediate deadline was set to urge them to feel our emergency. However, she did not leave the house. She mobilized people via social media, writing in the headline that a person (herself) was being deported from W1. In addition, they barricaded their apartment door. The call spread to several cities. That same night, people climbed with ropes along the wall of our house from all sides to enter their apartment. We were able to stop some of them by explaining that this was not a deportation, but a housing dispute and the process of evicting a person for the reasons described. Even the demosanis came and some collective against deportation almost took off from halle. The result: a squat in our own house with a considerable number of people we don’t know. A support group
formed around Dalia, X, and X. By chance, there was a telephone conversation between someone in the house and a supporter at the hostel. This led to many calls in the Saturday morning between two persons supporting Dalia and two persons from the house. Later on a personal conversation between three people from each side was agreed upon.
Various issues were negotiated, such as non-aggression truth, both sides deleting the posts from Friday night, stopping outside mobilization and turning electricity back on. No agreement was reached upon a common deadline on Dalia, X and X’s moving out but it made it possible for all involved to get some rest. Only on the Sunday morning after
another 2 hours of negotiating between the same persons, an agreement was found on 1. the move out deadline (one week) and 2. the rest of the organisation of the living together for that time. All of those agreements were respected.

Conclusion
Dalia caused a lot of harm to our community, we lost some of our community members because of her and we are deeply sorry for all of them that we failed to offer them a safe and comfortable place. Now after Dalia moved out, we are working on fixing the damage she left behind, we are developing our internal policies to make sure that we have a safe place physically and emotionally for everyone, recharging our energy to support each other again. House
meetings are also scheduled to collectively reflect on the entire situation and consider what we can learn from it for future situations. This statement does not deliver our final reflection on the situation. We only want to give all of the context and the true happenings of events in this conflict. We feel it is important that we share our version. This was for us a moment to learn to speak against unjust accusations even if they come for marginalized people and to beware of the weaponising of identities. There are probably explanations and reasons for Dalia’s behavior. We see that she has experienced much violence in her life but that doesn’t justify her being so dedicated to tear us down and creating conflict everywhere for the smallest things. Having conflicts is a natural thing for humans living together but to be a community we need people to be willing to work through them and navigate toward conflict resolution.
We know the way that Dalia hurted this house community might sound similar to other groups, organisations and singular people in Leipzig. We strongly invite you to share your story as well, to protect new people from this harmful behavior, as we observe her conflicts with us are a repeated pattern.

We thank our reader for reading this far and listening to our words,

Dearly,
The House residents of Chaosti (W1).

contact: w1-contact@riseup.net

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