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Monday May 28th, 2007 22:33 Block G8 - International demonstration in Hamburg
Clashes around RoteFlora Social Centre
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Logbook # 1 by Mobile Global Station Against G8
Press Release: Police repression in Germany continues to escalate before G8 Summit
After past days’ demonstrations organised by students, today in Hamburg there was a demonstration against the Council of European foreign ministers and ASEM (the Asia Europe Meeting).
The demo started at about 12.00 but demonstrators were denied the right to pass through the city centre. Police presence was heavy and they tried to provoke in many occasions.
Six thousands people participated. Among demonstrators there were many international activists. The demo anyway walked through the city centre.
The more radical block, the autonomous areas, opened the demo.
At the end of the demo, which managed to arrive in the main town square at about 5.00 p.m., a group of 100 people was surrounded by police. Then twenty police cars arrived and some demonstrators started throwing stones towards them in order to have the 100 freed from police pressure.
Thirty people got arrested.
Demonstrators therefore moved to RoteFlora Social Centre that is one of the three Block G8 Convergence centres. The centre access was protected by barricades because police was reaching the area.
At about 6.00 p.m. clashes developed between police and demonstrators. Police used water cannons against them.
Police started stopping people and checking their identities.
At about 9.00 p.m. the situation chilled down. At midnight the news that 90 people were arrested spread out. Only five of them were released. Many arrested happened because of special laws enacted thanks to the G8. Laws allows preventive detention up to the end of the summit.
Mainstream pictures and articles:
NDR On Line | Spiegel on line
Bbc News: Hamburg police battle protesters
Audios in Italian:
2.00 p.m. Listen to Sarah Castelli, Global Project.
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3.00 p.m.
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5.00 p.m.
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Link:
de.indymedia.org
See also:
Block G8 - Rostock ’07
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