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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 6 2017, 02:21 PM (37 Views) | |
| Webster | Jul 6 2017, 02:21 PM Post #1 |
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Reuters: "Welcome To Hell" - Protesters Vow To Disrupt G20 Summit
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| Webster | Jul 6 2017, 02:24 PM Post #2 |
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--Demonstrators have clashed with police in Hamburg during protests against the G20 summit and water cannon and tear gas have been used (Sky News Newsdesk, 6 July 2017) |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:20 AM Post #3 |
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(The Guardian) Protests and demonstrations --No designated protest marches are planned for today, but lots of actions and stunts are scheduled around Hamburg, Philip Oltermann reports, and there are reports of some demonstrators being kettled and police using water cannon already this morning. Merkel was born in Hamburg and reportedly chose the city as the venue for this summit to send a message of openness. But the Hamburg police chief, Ralf Martin Meyer, has expressed concerns the city would see “not just sit-in protests but massive assaults” as anarchists from Scandinavia, Switzerland and Italy join up with local activists in a city with a long tradition of left-wing protest and riots. The Hamburg congress centre, where the summit is being held, is only a short distance from one of Germany’s most potent symbols of left-wing, anti-capitalist resistance: a former theatre called the “Rote Flora”. As leaders were arriving on Thursday, riot police were firing water cannon and pepper spray at a group of about a thousand masked and black-clad protesters who hurled bottles on the fringes of a “Welcome to Hell” demonstration. More than 100,000 demonstrators are expected to join a series of major protest marches on Saturday. |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:25 AM Post #4 |
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(The Guardian) Dozens of protesters have attempted to block cars from accessing the summit venue, Hamburg’s trade fair and congress centre, the Associated Press reports, but were quickly cleared by police. Demonstrators blocked several intersections and so-called transfer corridors - roads designated to help delegations move between meetings. Further away in the city’s Altona district, police said an operation was underway against “violent individuals” who threw petrol bombs and set fire to patrol cars near a police station, Agence France-Presse reports. AP also reports police have used water cannon to clear a blockade by protesters on the banks of the Outer Alster lake, some distance from congress centre, after they repeatedly told a group of protesters to clear the road. |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:34 AM Post #5 |
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![]() (The Guaridan) (Guardian correspondent) Philip Oltermann has been out and about surveying the remains of last night’s violent anti-globalisation and anti-capitalism protests in Hamburg: Some of the more aggressive protesters moved into the wealthier districts of Hamburg after the march ended around midnight. Windows of banks on a shopping street in the Othmarschen district were either smashed up or sprayed with “No G20” slogans this morning. On the Elbchaussee, a picturesque road along the river dotted with villas, there were at least nine burnt-out cars and charred remains of melted plastic on the tarmac. Ariane Striemeier-Gellsen, the owner of a burnt-out Saab, said she had just got her children to get ready for school when around 30 masked protesters starting throwing bottles and Molotov cocktails on the street outside, at shortly before 8 am. “The car’s insured, but it has a nostalgic value”, she said. “If it had survived another year it would have been vintage”. She said it had taken fire services 45 minutes to arrive on the scene. |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:35 AM Post #6 |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:40 AM Post #7 |
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--@PolizeiHamburg say 111 police officers have been injured (unknown injured protesters) and 44 people have been arrested/detained #g20 (Thomas Sparrow, Deutsche Welle - 7 July 2017) --Von uns ergeht erneut der Hinweis -> Haltet die Straßen frei, ihr sollt euch nicht selbst gefährden, bringt euch nicht unnötig in Gefahr (ENG: Once again, we are reminded of -> Keep the streets free, do not endanger yourself, do not put yourself in danger unnecessarily) (Police Hamburg, 7 July 2017) |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:48 AM Post #8 |
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(The Guardian) Hamburg police ask for reinforcements – Der Spiegel --Amid reports of widespread rioting and car-burning in the Hamburg district of Altona and elsewhere in the city, Der Spiegel reports that Hamburg police have asked for reinforcements from elsewhere in the country. “We have asked nationwide whether forces are free, and that is being examined,” a police source told the magazine, confirming that a total of around 15,000 policemen are already on duty around the G20 summit . Der Spiegel cited an internal police message calling on “all available forces” to deal with a situation that risked becoming a “danger to life and limb”. -Read more: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g20-gipfel-im-newsblog-hunderte-wollen-gipfel-blockieren-a-1155714.html |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:48 AM Post #9 |
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(The Guardian) The Guardian’s Berlin bureau chief, Philip Oltermann, has been speaking to more residents who witnessed last night’s violence:Waltraut Waidelich, a resident of the Schanzenviertel district, said she had deliberately parked her car in the more upmarket Altona district yesterday, only find her vehicle surrounded by burnt-out cars this morning. The 60-year-old said she felt some of the violent protests where undermining more constructive protests and alternative conferences taking place in Hamburg this weekend: “At the alternative summit, I saw a lot of highly competent people looking constructively at ways in which we can transform the economy along more social and ecological lines.” Some degree of protest and disagreement was normal, she said: “We have to remind politicians visiting our city that they have to work harder. But I prefer creative forms of protests, and I am not sure what torching normal people’s cars is meant to achieve. There were a lot of young men on the streets who were mainly out to play cops and robbers with the police. Violence is not my way.” |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 10:56 AM Post #10 |
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(The Guardian) The Berlin bureau chief Philip Oltermann’s account of the ongoing protests and violence around the G20 summit in Hamburg this morning will be live shortly. Here is a foretaste: Masked protesters in black dress used flares to set fire to at least 20 cars and pelted rocks at the windows of banks and smaller stores as they made their way through the Altona district and along the Elbchausse road along the river at around 7.30am on Friday. Many stores and cafes in the area, including a local Ikea, on Friday morning boarded up their windows in anticipation of further rioting. Other protest groups marched peacefully through Hamburg’s harbour area and historic centre, where they blocked access routes for delegates and envoys travelling in and out of the Messehalle conference centre where leaders including Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel gathered this morning. Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, was reportedly stopped from attending an event in the G20’s supporting programme by the protests. “Police have not given us security clearance to leave the guesthouse,” Trump’s spokesperson told the German press agency DPA. The Hamburg police spokesperson Sven Jahn said a group of around 60 masked protesters attacked three police vehicles with molotov cocktails, and that a flare fired at a police helicopter only narrowly missed its target. |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 11:07 AM Post #11 |
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(The Guardian) Following reports that an armoured vehicle from the Bundeswehr – the German army – was seen heading in the direction of Altona, the upmarket Hamburg district where Molotov cocktails have been thrown at police and many cars set alight, the city police have denied calling in military backup... --KEINE Unterstützung der @bundeswehrInfo zu #G20HAM17! Dem Einsatz sind deutliche verfassungsrechtliche Grenzen gesetzt - Grundgesetz Art. 87 (ENG: NO support of @ bundeswehrInfo to # G20HAM17 ! Substantive constitutional limits are set for the deployment - Basic Law Art. 87) (Police Hamburg, 7 July 2017) The police tweet says the force is not receiving military support, which would breach the constitutional limits under which it operates. Der Spiegel reports that the military vehicles were being used by the police with prior agreement to transport necessary crowd control material such as barbed wire. |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 11:09 AM Post #12 |
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(The Guardian) The leaders’ partners’ programme for the day has been amended because of ongoing protests around the city, German media report. Hosted by Angela Merkel’s husband Joachim Sauer, the programme kicked off with a boat trip around Hamburg harbour that the US first lady, Melania Trump, had to skip because she was prevented by demonstrators from leaving her guesthouse. This afternoon’s planned visit to a climate research centre has been scrapped and replaced with a presentation by climate scientists at a luxury Hamburg hotel. |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 11:11 AM Post #13 |
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(The Guardian) Die Welt reports that police have arrested leftwing extremists from France, the Netherlands and Switzerland during the protests in Hamburg, while other foreign militants travelling to the port city by train and plane have been turned back at the border. The paper said police reinforcements had been sent to Hamburg from around the country, including 200 officers from Baden-Württemberg, more than 200 from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and 300 from Berlin. City police chief Ralf Martin Meyer told reporters that tight security around the conference area had caused protesters to fan out around Hamburg, forcing police to request 900-1,000 further officers as reinforcements. “We are focusing on securing corridors to make sure that the path for (leaders’) convoys is clear,” Meyer said. -Read more: https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/live166211930/KEINE-Unterstuetzung-Polizei-dementiert-Bundeswehr-Einsatz.html#live-ticker-entry-12295 |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 11:15 AM Post #14 |
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(The Guardian) The Guardian’s Berlin bureau chief, Philip Oltermann, has more on allegations by the Hamburg protest organisers of police provocation: Organisers of Thursday evening’s “Welcome to Hell” protest march accuse German police of having knowingly risked escalating the volatile situation in the city by applying undue force against peaceful marchers. Andreas Beuth, a lawyer who had co-organised the march at a riverside plaza used for Hamburg’s weekly fish market, contradicted police claims members of the march’s “black bloc” had refused to remove their masks on police orders, after which police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowds. “The escalation was clearly started by the police”, Beuth told a press conference on Friday morning. He said many protesters had started to lower their scarves when the police began to pile indiscriminately into the back of the march, thus breaking up what could have otherwise remained a peaceful demonstration. Christoph Kleine, one of the organisers of Saturday’s G20 Not Welcome march, said police had “risked the loss of human life” by aiming water throwers at people standing on bridges and rooftops. Protest organisers said three participants of the march had been seriously injured and one person remained in a critical condition, while several others had sustained lighter injuries during the skirmishes. Another organiser said that 14 people had had to be taken to hospital. A number of journalists working for leftwing German newspapers reported on Friday that their press accreditation had been withdrawn from them without an explanation. -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/07/g20-protests-hamburg-altona-messehalle |
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| Webster | Jul 7 2017, 01:14 PM Post #15 |
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(The Guardian) Germany’s justice minister, Heiko Maas, has condemned the violent clashes at the summit that have left 160 police officers injured and seen more than 40 protesters arrested. “Every peaceful protest is welcome,” Maas told the daily Bild. “But that is no free pass for unrestrained rampage ... These extremist criminals don’t belong in the streets, but in court. Whoever torches cars and injures police officers does not deserve any kind of tolerance.” Separately, the Hamburg fire department said 11 protesters had been severely injured and were in hospital fell off a wall during confrontations with police. |
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