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OVER 400 police and 520 demonstrators were injured when masked protesters showered officers with rocks and beer bottles during a rally against the Group of Eight summit. At least 25 police and 20 protesters were seriously injured.

Black smoke from burning cars mixed with the sting of tear gas in the harbour-front area of the northern German city of Rostock, where tens of thousands of people had gathered peacefully at the start of the day on Saturday.

But heavily armoured officers eventually drove the protesters back with water cannon and tear gas as they clashed with hundreds anti-globalisation demonstrators. Police said 63 protesters remained in custody.

It was a violent start to what is expected to be a week of rallies against the three-day G8 summit beginning on Wednesday in the fenced-off coastal resort of Heiligendamm, 22 kilometres from Rostock.

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will host the leaders of Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Russia, Canada and the US for discussions on global warming, aid to Africa and the global economy. As in the past, the summit is attracting protesters opposed to capitalism, globalisation, the war in Iraq and the G8 itself.


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=abgKA5lw.jQQ&refer=europe
German Police, Protesters Say About 1,000 Hurt in Rostock Rally

By Patrick Donahue

June 3 (Bloomberg) -- German police in the northern city of Rostock and protest organizers said almost 1,000 people were hurt after violence erupted during yesterday's mostly peaceful demonstration against this week's Group of Eight summit.

Some 520 demonstrators were injured -- primarily by stinging tear gas -- with 20 serious injuries, protest spokeswoman Sabine Zimpel said today. Police spokesman Frank Scheulen said 433 police offers were hurt yesterday, 30 of them seriously.

A march including organizations such as Greenpeace, anti- capitalist group Attac, Germany's Left Party, church groups and labor unions turned violent after demonstrators clad in black masks and hoods began to throw stones, bottles and flaming objects at police. The police responded with tear gas and water cannons.

``We distance ourselves clearly from these violent people,'' Zimpel said. The police's Scheulen said most disruptions had ended by yesterday evening, although assailants lit two cars on fire during the night, bringing the total destroyed to three.


http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=6d10f5ab-eee0-4e1b-a82b-83c91374094c&k=0


A protester throws a stone at German riot police in front of a barricade during an anti-G8 demonstration in Rostock June 2, 2007. Protesters threw stones and bottles and attacked police officers with sticks in the German port of Rostock on Saturday after a largely peaceful demonstration against next week's Group of Eight summit. A group of around 500 demonstrators set upon police near the harbour after a series of marches through the city in which police said 25,000 people took part.

while we root for others who do this

we are at home posting on internet boards

Tell me when the American popualtion will do I don't know a national strike, hell I'lll settle for a regional one

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=5363bcfc-67bc-4e45-9ea8-d7d8b7db1703&k=99052

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.

...have any energy left to challenge King George?

challenge the mass murderer. BECAUSE they have built a fence around the whole town where they meet plus the police has forbidden for anybody to get nearer than 5 Kilometers of the fence. 5 Kilometers!

There is a very angry discussion going on in Germany. At another occasion the Constitutional Court has decided that protesters must be allowed to get close enough to our "kings" that they can see and hear us. Right now that's impossible. ATTAC will sue again to-morrow. If a demonstration cannot take place where it can be seen or heard you practically don't have the right to demonstrate which is against our Constitution. I wonder how the Constitutional Court will decide. But nearer than the fence nobody will get and Georgie will be far away grabbing Angela again or whatever pranks he wants to play this time.


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Bush to The Hague!

...is there an address for the G8 meeting site?

I found the web site. it is the Kempinski Grand Hotel in Heiligendamm. Rooms run Eur 2,220 per night. :spray:

http://www.kempinski-heiligendamm.com/en/home/index.htm

in Heiligendamm:
Kühlungsborner Straße
Kinderstrand
Seedeichstraße
Professor-Doktor-Vogel-Straße
Gartenstraße
(ß= ss)

The fence is not around the Kempinski but around the WHOLE TOWN. The Kempinski itself has no adress other than "Heiligendamm".
I'd also love to see the fence from above. If you should find it please post here.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=37.09024,-95.712891&spn=47.167389,92.8125&z=4&om=1&layer=c

<On Edit> Oops, you need to put into the search the city followed by the street on the same search line

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I just love DU :loveya: Reading the German media it sounded as if hardly a car in Rostock survived. I was severely disappointed in the German publications who mainly spoke of the riot (which started at the very end after a protest march and a final demonstration) instead of the large peaceful protest (80 000 people - the police spoke of 30 000, though).

Security for the summit costs Germany 200 million Euros (and I'm sure that it's really much more, it usually takes some years to get to know the real numbers). Need it be mentioned that it was the USA that insisted on most of the security? Even top ranking German politicians and the Union of Policemen spoke for the first time of "US-demands that are almost impossible to fulfill"

I mean...we don't want your Bush in the first place.

Why, oh why can't we have that **** summit in the USA? I mean - always? Pay for it yourselves! What really makes me angry is that the security demands of the US are much, much, much greater than what they do themselves when Bush moves within the USA! It's so very arrogant, and it's propaganda: Look how dangerous the world has become with all those terraists, all you Europeans, now will you finally have those even stricter laws that we keep demanding?

and should be worried.