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Some 10000 people take part in a bicycle demonstration against the Federal Constitutional Court's rulling on Berlin's rent cap law in Berlin on May 1, 2021 as part of Mayday protests. - Germany's highest court said that a policy to freeze rents in Berlin for the next five years to combat soaring living costs was unlawful in a ruling published on April 15, 2021. The capital's "Mietendeckel" law or rent cap "violates the Basic Law and is thus ruled void", the Federal Constitutional Court in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe said in a blow to millions of tenants. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)