GERMANY: ANTI WAR DEMONSTRATION IN HAMBURG AGAINST A POSSIBLE U.S.LED ATTACK ON IRAQ AND ANY GERMAN PARTICIPATION.

Record ID: 208408

  • Title: GERMANY: ANTI WAR DEMONSTRATION IN HAMBURG AGAINST A POSSIBLE U.S.LED ATTACK ON IRAQ AND ANY GERMAN PARTICIPATION.
  • Date: 1st March 2003
  • Summary: (EU) HAMBURG, GERMANY (MARCH 1, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/PAN: ACROSS PROTESTERS AT RALLY IN GAENSEMARKT. 0.08 2. SCU: ANTI WAR DEMONSTRATOR ADDRESSING CROWD. 0.10 3. VARIOUS: OF PROTESTERS WITH PLACARDS AND BANNERS. (7 SHOTS) 0.49 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (German) ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATOR MICHAEL SCHADE SAYING: "We clearly have to expand the movement in Germany still further, and apply pressure on the government to stay by their position. Also there must not be any indirect assistance in a war, for example that air space is made available for the war or that AWACS planes are made available, or the German crews. That is also support for the war, and so we are also against that. Unfortunately our government isn't at the moment." 1.18 5. SCU/CU: OF DEMONSTRATORS SIGNING PETITION AGAINST WAR. (2 SHOTS) 1.23 (EU) HEIDELBERG, GERMANY (MARCH 1, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. VARIOUS: OF PROTESTERS WITH BANNERS MARCHING. (5 SHOTS) 2.01 7. WS/MV: OF U.S. SOLDIERS GUARDING THE U.S. AIR BASE. 2.09 8. CU: EXTERIOR OF CAMPBELL BARRACKS SHOWING NAME. 2.14 9. CU: EAGLE STATUE. 2.18 10. MV: GERMAN POLICE PROTECTING BARRACKS. 2.21 11. WS: OF DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING TOWARDS BARRACKS. (2 SHOTS) 2.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: HAMBURG AND HEIDELBERG, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA80KVASPZ6Y7LZZNDTFK42TJJZ
  • Story Text: Thousands of people have gathered in Germany to protest
    against a possible war against Iraq and to demand that the
    German government does not participate in any way.



    According to the police, five thousand anti-war
    demonstrators gathered in the northern Germany city of Hamburg
    and a couple more thousand protested in front of the U.S. Air
    Base in Heidelberg on Saturday (March 1).

    In addition to protesting against a possible war in Iraq,
    the demonstrators also called for the German government to
    remain strong in its stance against a war by not getting
    involved even in passive assistance for an attack.

    "We clearly have to expand the movement in Germany still
    further, and apply pressure on the government to stay by their
    position. Also there must not be any indirect assistance in a
    war, for example that air space is made available for the war
    or that AWACS planes are made available, or the German crews.

    That is also support for the war, and so we are also against
    that. Unfortunately our government isn't at the moment,"
    protester Michael Schade told Reuters at the demonstration on
    the Gaensemarkt in the centre of Hamburg.

    The demonstration in Hamburg had been organised by the
    local branch of the German Trade Unions Congress, the DGB.

    In Heidelberg the local peace movement has taken to having
    a demonstration in front of the U.S. Air Base every Saturday.

    Police in Heidelberg say 1,500 attended the demonstration
    this week, organisers say it was up to 2,500 who marched past
    the U.S. Campbell Barracks.

    U.S soldiers looked on impassively while young and old
    demonstrators shouted protests and carried banners saying real
    heroes don't go to war.

    The demonstrations took place without any incidents.




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