Sigrid Rausing denies financial interest in building, as court orders booksellers Kisch & Co to vacate Kreuzberg premises

A UK-based Swedish multi-billionaire family known for their philanthropic donations to literature, libraries and other arts, has become the target of angry protests in Berlin over the eviction of a community bookshop from a counter-culture neighbourhood.

The bookseller Kisch & Co, which has operated for the last 24 years from a historic building on one of the main thoroughfares in the Kreuzberg district of Germany’s capital, was on Thursday told by a criminal court to vacate its premises.

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