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David Rising, Canadian Press
Published: Sunday, June 03, 2007 Article tools

Germany (AP) - German authorities on Sunday shut down most routes to the G8 summit site of Heiligendamm and pulled over cars for spot checks on the main road there from Rostock, where protest riots injured hundreds of people.

Three days before the leaders of the world's major industrial powers gather, the situation around Heiligendamm was calm, police said.

But the police strategy of displaying a massive presence and acting swiftly against radical demonstrators was reinforced, spokeswoman Jessica Wessel said, by Saturday's violence in the north German port of Rostock. Serious clashes with the police broke out there on the sidelines of a huge anti-G8 protest.