- Title: GERMANY: RIOTS MAR MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS IN BERLIN
- Date: 2nd May 1998
- Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 1, 1998) (RTV) 1. SLV LARGE CROWD OF PROTESTERS AND SECURITY 0.04 2. SLV ZOOM OUT CROWDS AND FIRE IN BACKGROUND 0.12 3. SLV BURNING RUBBISH BIN PAN TO CAMERMEN AND SECURITY 0.20 4. SLV RIOTERS BUILDING BARRICADE (2 SHOTS) 0.33 5. SLV RIOTER THROWING STONE AT WINDOW 0.38 6. CU DAMAGED WINDOW 0.42 7. MV RIOT POLICE FOLLOWED BY CROWD MAN KICKS RIOT POLICEMAN 0.51 8. SLV WATER CANNON IN SQUARE 0.55 9. SLV PROTESTERS KNOCKING FENCE DOWN 1.09 10. SLV PROTESTERS RUNNING FROM RIOT POLICE 1.20 11. SLV PROTESTER IN THE GRIP OF A 'HEAD-LOCK' BEING ARRESTED 1.23 12. SLV STONES THROWN AT RIOT POLICE WHO ATTACK PROTESTER 1.44 13. SLV FIRES IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 1.52 14. SLV LARGE GROUP OF RIOT POLICE ARRIVE ON SCENE 1.57 15. MV RIOT POLICE MANHANDLE PROTESTER 2.07 16. SLV WATER CANNON PUTS OUT FIRE 2.20 17. CU ZOOM OUT LOOTED CASH TILL IN SHOP WITH BROKEN WINDOW 2.29 18. SLV RIOTERS THROWING STONE AT POLICE 2.36 19. LAS SHOP SIGN TILT DOWN TO RIOTERS LOOTING COMPUTER SHOP (2 SHOTS) 3.00 20. SLV BURNING WOOD IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 3.12 21. SLV WATER CANNON AND POLICE CLEARING BURNING ROAD BLOCK 3.19 22. SLV WATER CANNON EXTINGUISHING FIRE 3.28 23. SLV WATER CANON DOUSING FIRE/SLV ROAD BLOCK CLEARED BY WATER CANNON (2 SHOTS) 3.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
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- Country: Germany
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- Story Text: Rioters in Berlin threw bottles and stones at police, set fire to dustbins and vandalised shops as May Day was marked in Germany on Friday, Police said they had temporarily detained around 330 people as a result of clashes after 6,000 leftists began a May Day march in the eastern part of Berlin on Friday evening.
Facing a hail of rocks, bottles, fireworks and beer cans, the police deployed water cannon to extinguish makeshift barricades of dustbins and debris set ablaze by the rioters.
Police also used truncheons on the rioters.
Several officers were injured and one had to be taken to hospital, police said.
Witnesses said the rioters smashed the windows of several shops and looted a computer store in the Prenzlauer Berg area of the city.Police bulldozers cleared away the barricades.
Police said all the fires had been extinguished and the situation was under control more than two hours after the violence began.
"It looks as if calm might finally be descending here now," a police spokesman said.
Violent groups in Berlin have a history of using May Day rallies to fight battles with police.
Earlier on Friday, police battled with both leftist and rightist demonstrators in the eastern city of Leipzig.
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