police clash ahead of G7 summit- Protesters
Leaders
from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations will meet on Sunday in a
German Alpine resort town, as thousands protested on the eve of the
two-day summit.
There
were sporadic clashes with police and several marchers were taken to
hospital with injuries, as thousands marched in the town of
Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.
Protester
Monika Lambert said she had come “to exercise my democratic rights to
say that everything the G-7 decides is in the interest of the banks and
capitalists.”
The
Germans have deployed 17,000 police around the former winter Olympic
Games venue at the foot of Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze.
Another 2,000 are on stand-by across the border in Austria.
The
demonstrations have so far been peaceful, Hans-Peter Kammerer, a police
spokesman, said on Saturday, but that significant numbers of
“extremists” from Germany, Austria, Italy, and Britain were thought to
be joining the expected crowd of about 8,000.
Al
Jazeera’s Dominic Kane, reporting from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, said
“protesters have promised to try to disrupt the proceedings as much as
they can”.
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