GERMANY: SMALL SCUFFLES BREAK OUT BETWEEN LEFT-WING PROTESTERS AND POLICE AT MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN

Record ID: 647725

  • Title: GERMANY: SMALL SCUFFLES BREAK OUT BETWEEN LEFT-WING PROTESTERS AND POLICE AT MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN
  • Date: 1st May 2001
  • Summary: (U5) BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 1, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF PROTESTERS WITH COMMUNIST BANNERS PAN TO MAN ADDRESSING PROTESTERS AT TURKISH DEMO FROM PODIUM 0.09 2. SV: PROTESTERS WITH LISTENING 0.13 3. VARIOUS OF MARCHERS CARRYING RED BANNERS PASS THROUGH STREET; CU PEOPLES SHOES (4 SHOTS) 0.38 4. VARIOUS VIEWS OF MARCHERS WITH BANNERS; MARCHERS WALKING UP TO POLICE LINE (6 SHOTS) 1.26 5. MV: POLICE ASK MARCHERS PROTESTER SEATED ON THE GROUND TO LEAVE 1.37 6. SV: POLICEMAN SPEAKING THROUGH MEGAPHONE 1.41 7. SV: POLICE PUSH BACK PROTESTERS 1.52 8. VARIOUS: SCUFFLES BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS; POLICE PUSH PROTESTERS (2 SHOTS) 2.06 9. VARIOUS: POLICE ARRESTING/TAKING AWAY PROTESTER AS ANOTHER GROUP OF POLICE RUN AT PROTESTERS 2.27 10. PAN: YOUTH WITH BANNER RUNS TO HIS FELLOW PROTESTERS 2.36 11. SV'S: POLICE FILMING PROTESTERS; POLICE AND PROTESTERS SHOUTING AT ONE ANOTHER (2 SHOTS) 2.55 12. LV: PROTESTERS RUNNING, CHASED BY POLICE 3.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th May 2001 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA7RXNO2B8CLX2N5KO4S2BNZHO1
  • Story Text: Small scuffles have broken out between left-wing
    demonstrators and police in Berlin on May Day.


    Small scuffles broke out between left-wing
    demonstrators and police in Berlin on Tuesday (May 1) as
    running street battles police and extreme left-wingers
    known as "Autonomen" have become something of an annual
    ritual in Germany on May Day.

    A record 9,000 police were deployed in Berlin on the May
    Day holiday.

    Last year, skirmishes between protesters and police left
    226 officers wounded and 401 demonstrators detained.

    Police had warned of worse May Day violence than usual in
    Germany's capital after a court upheld a decision to ban a
    traditional left-wing demonstration, but ruled that an extreme
    right-wing march could proceed, albeit in an outlying suburb.

    That demonstration passed off peacefully.


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