Berlin Wall protests – in pictures

With chants of 'Fill the gap!' protesters attempted to put up a styrofoam replica of part of the Berlin Wall after the demolition work began Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Police and protesters at the East Side Gallery Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Scuffles in the crowd Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Police detain a protester Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

A woman writes on the wall Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Police keep watch as workers remove a piece of the wall Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Workers lift a piece of the wall Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Left: a photo taken on 11 November 1989 of West Berliners crowding in front of the Berlin Wall as East German border guards demolish a section of the wall to open a new crossing point. Right: Friday's protests Photograph: Gerard Malie/Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

12 November 1989: West Germans celebrate the unification of Berlin atop the Berlin Wall Photograph: Stephen Jaffe/Getty Images

10 November 1989: A man welds a pickaxe to participate in the destruction of the Berlin Wall between the Postdam Platz and the Brandenburg Gate Photograph: Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Corbis

9 November 1989: An East German border guard looks through a hole in the wall towards West Berlin Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features