GERMANY: PEACEFUL MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN HAVE TURNED VIOLENT AS YOUTHS THREW BOTTLES AND STONES AT POLICE

Record ID: 240173

  • Title: GERMANY: PEACEFUL MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN HAVE TURNED VIOLENT AS YOUTHS THREW BOTTLES AND STONES AT POLICE
  • Date: 1st May 2004
  • Summary: (W7)BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 1, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV OF LEFT-WING DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING IN BERLIN'S KREUZBERG DISTRICT, CARRYING BANNER 0.05 2. SLV OF DEMONSTRATOR WALKING PAST, ONE DRESSED IN RED PUTTING UP HIS HOOD 0.09 3. TRACKING SHOT OF DEMONSTRATORS WALKING TOWARD POLICE AS SIGNAL FLARE IS GOING OFF IN BACKGROUND, DEMONSTRATORS THEN RETREATING 0.20 4. SV NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING COVER ON STREET CORNER, PAN TO YOUTHS HURLING OBJECTS AT POLICE 0.31 5. SLV POLICEMAN WITH FOOT INJURY BEING ASSISTED BY COLLEAGUES 0.36 6. SLV POLICEMAN SHOVING WOMAN DEMONSTRATOR ARGUING WITH HIM 0.45 7. SLV POLICEMAN DRAGGING OFF DEMONSTRATOR 0.56 8. SLV DEMONSTRATOR GETTING UP AND BEING LED AWAY BY POLICE 1.06 9. LV NAKED DEMONSTRATOR WITH PANTS DOWN AROUND HIS ANKLES HOPPING TOWARD POLICE AS CHEERING IS HEARD 1.21 10. SV DEMONSTRATORS RUNNING TOWARD CAMERA, AWAY FROM APPROACHING POLICE 1.27 11. SLV INJURED DEMONSTRATOR LYING ON GROUND, WOMAN TRYING TO DRAG HIM AWAY 1.36 12. SV MASKED DEMONSTRATOR THROWING OBJECT 1.47 13. SLV POLICEMAN SLOWLY APPROACHING DEMONSTRATORS (2 SHOTS) 2.01 14. LV DEMONSTRATORS SCUFFLING WITH POLICE ON STREET CORNER OUTSIDE RESTAURANT 2.05 15. LV POLICEMAN DRAGGING OFF PERSON 2.14 16. SLV GROUP OF POLICEMEN RUNNING PAST PHONE BOOTHS WITH SMASHED WINDOWS 2.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMAY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVACTCS1CHC69W9CYQBQ0LFLD62I
  • Story Text: Peaceful May Day demonstrations in Berlin have
    turned violent as youths threw bottles and stones at police.




    The riots broke out in Berlin's Kreuzberg district
    on Saturday evening (May 1), the site of annual May Day
    street battles between youths and police.

    Hundreds of police in riot gear moved quickly against
    crowds of demonstrators in the west Berlin Kreuzberg
    district after groups of protesters began throwing bottles,
    stones and other objects, including signal rockets.

    Nearly 10,000 police from Berlin and across Germany
    were being deployed as the capital braced for another night
    of violence after 111 people were detained overnight for
    throwing bottles and stones at police in the Prenzlauer
    Berg district.

    Berlin has been marred by May Day clashes between
    left-wing anarchists and police every year since 1987.


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