GERMANY: SCUFFLES BREAK OUT BETWEEN RIGHT-WING AND LEFT-WING PROTESTORS DURING MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

Record ID: 646990

  • Title: GERMANY: SCUFFLES BREAK OUT BETWEEN RIGHT-WING AND LEFT-WING PROTESTORS DURING MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS
  • Date: 3rd May 2005
  • Summary: (EU) LEIPZIG, GERMANY (MAY 1, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. HIGH VIEW OF POLICE CHARGING TO DISPERSE LEFT-WING COUNTER PROTESTERS TRYING TO DISRUPT NEO-NAZI RALLY; POLICE CHARGING LEFT-WING PROTESTERS; NEO-NAZIS MARCHING PAST MAIN TRAIN STATION (9 SHOTS) 1.04 2. SCU OLD WOMAN BLOWING WHISTLE, PROTESTING AGAINST NEO-NAZIS; MV SMALL GROUP OF LEFT-WINGERS STAGING SIT-IN, BLOCKING STREET 1.18 3. MV RIOT POLICE MOVING IN, WATER CANON STARTING TO SPRAY CROWD; SLV PROTESTERS GETTING DRENCHED; POLICE CHARGING, TRYING TO DRAG LEFT-WING PROTESTERS AWAY; SCUFFLES BREAKING OUT, POLICEMEN DRAGGING PROTESTERS AWAY 4. PROTESTERS PUNCHING POLICEMEN, GETTING DRAGGED AWAY; WIDE OF CROWD 3.15 (BN14) LEIPZIG, GERMANY (MAY 1, 2005) (REUTERS) 5. MV WATER CANNON SQUIRTING WATER; MV POLICEMAN WEARING SUNGLASSES DIRECTING WATER CANNON FROM INSIDE POLICE VEHICLE 3.23 6. MV CHANTING LEFT-WING PROTESTERS GETTING WET FROM WATER CANNONS; POLICE MOVING IN ON PROTESTERS; CLOSE-UP OF POLICE BATONS IN POLICEMEN'S HANDS; POLICEMEN IN RIOT GEAR TRYING TO REMOVE LEFT-WING PROTESTERS FROM CROWD, PROTESTERS CHANTING "KEINE GEWALT!" (NO VIOLENCE) 7. TWO POLICEMEN DRAGGING OFF PROTESTER; POLICEMEN LEADING AWAY PROTESTER; HOODED LEFT-WING PROTESTER WEARING SUNGLASSES LED AWAY BY POLICE; CROWD WATCHING 8. CROWD CHANTING, POLICE IN FOREGROUND 9. WIDE OF NEO-NAZIS MARCH THROUGH TOWN; PAN FROM NEO-NAZIS TO LEFT-WING COUNTER-DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING; SCU LEFT-WING WOMAN DEMONSTRATOR BEHIND POLICE LINE, PAN TO OTHER PROTESTERS; CLOSE-UP OF NEO-NAZIS SCREAMING AT COUNTER-DEMONSTRATORS; SLV POLICE NEAR WATER CANNON 10. LEFT-WING CROWD CHANTING, POLICE LOUDSPEAKER HEARD SAYING "DO NOT THROW ANY OBJECTS"; CHANTING NEO-NAZIS, POLICE IN FOREGROUND; SLV NEO-NAZIS WALKING PAST; BACK SHOT OF LEFT-WING DEMONSTRATORS 11. MAN WITH BANDAGE ON HEAD WALKING PAST; WIDE OF OVERTURNED STREET SIGN MEANING "DETOUR", POLICE VANS IN DISTANCE 4.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th May 2005 13:00
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  • Location: MANNHEIM, DUISBURG, FRANKFURT,BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA4HT0STNPA6NB97N7QAAM8NY7S
  • Story Text: Scuffles between right-wing and left-wing protestors
    in Leipzig.

    German riot police battled masked left-wing
    anarchists in Berlin and Leipzig on Sunday as sporadic
    violence once again marred May Day celebrations.

    About 100 people in the two cities were arrested, but
    police in Berlin said the extent of the damage was less
    extensive than in previous years.

    Police in Leipzig turned water cannon on left-wing
    demonstrators who battled riot police. Thirty leftists were
    arrested for acts of violence to disrupt a court-approved march of
    1,000 right-wing demonstrators.

    A police spokesman in Leipzig said that more than 1,200
    left-wing protesters tried to block the march.

    Clashes erupted as left-wing counter-demonstrators
    started throwing objects at passing neo-Nazis, led by
    Hamburg-based Christian Worch.


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