SWITZERLAND: GENEVA CITIZENS WAKE UP TO FIND SHOPS AND BUSINESSES TRASHED DURING ANOTHER EVENING OF VIOLENCE

Record ID: 648177

  • Title: SWITZERLAND: GENEVA CITIZENS WAKE UP TO FIND SHOPS AND BUSINESSES TRASHED DURING ANOTHER EVENING OF VIOLENCE
  • Date: 3rd June 2003
  • Summary: (U3) GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (JUNE 02, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PEOPLE CLEANING UP GLASS FROM A SMASHED BUS STOP; PAN FROM GLASS OF A BROKEN WINDOW IN MAIN STREET TO A WORKER; SLV MAN CLEANING STREET; MV MAN PULLING DOWN THE REMAINS OF A SMASHED WINDOW; SCU SMASHED WINDOW WITH GRAFFITI (5 SHOTS) 0.29 2. SLV MEN CLEANING PIECES OF GLASS IN THE STREETS 0.36 3. MV YOUNG COUPLE SITTING AT A BENCH READING NEWSPAPER 0.39 4. SLV EXTERIOR PLACE (USINE) WHERE THE ANARCHISTS WERE ARRESTED; SLV PAN FROM A SMASHED WINDOW TO ANOTHER SMASHED WINDOW (2 SHOTS) 0.49 5. SCU CAFE OWNER PICKING UP STONES THAT WERE HURLED THROUGH WINDOW AND PLACING THEM INTO A CONTAINER 1.01 6. (SOUNDBITE) (French) CAFE OWNER SAYING: "This morning I found my window broken with big stones inside." (TILT DOWN TO ROCKS) 1.12 7. SCU ZOOM OUT OF SMASHED REINFORCED WINDOWS; SLV ARMOURED POLICE VANS DRIVING BY SMASHED WINDOWS; MV SMASHED REINFORCED WINDOWS (3 SHOTS) 1.32 8. (SOUNDBITE) (French) WOMAN SAYS "The people who broke up things, I find it bad. I'm going to stay neutral (about the way the police worked) because it is difficult. There is the police but if they get too repressive it could have more and more violence. I think they had a role of protectors, but that's it." 2.07 9. SLV PEOPLE AROUND PROTECTED SHOPS WITH GRAFFITI ALL OVER; PAN FROM GRAFFITI TO A MAN PAINTING OVER THE GRAFFITI BOARDS OUTSIDE SHOPS; MV PAINTER CLEANING UP GRAFFITI (3 SHOTS) 2.35 10. (SOUNDBITE) (French) MAN SAYING "I think what happened, it's simply a scandal and that the politicians were incapable of doing what they had to do. If I were them I would quit the job and I would also forbid them of being reelected for four years. They were all incapable of doing what it had to be done." (MAN WALKS AWAY) 3.02 11. SCU /SLV GRAFFITI 3.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Reuters ID: LVA5V03RPTV32HHZ6CA66R0NI9IG
  • Story Text: Geneva citizens woke up on Monday to find some of their
    shops and businesses had been trashed during another evening
    of violence in the city centre.

    The clean-up effort began in Geneva on Monday (June 2, 2003)
    after anarchists and anti-capitalists rampaged through the
    city's plush streets on Sunday (June 01).

    They smashed up shops and looted businesses as world
    leaders met beyond their reach in France.

    The protesters, many wearing the trademark black T-shirt
    of the anarchists, targeted clothing shops and petrol stations
    to the chants of "no blood for oil", in a reference to the
    U.S. occupation of Iraq.

    Police detained several hundred youths, most of them in
    Lausanne, but the skirmishes continued into the evening in
    Geneva while the world's leaders settled down to dinner some
    50 kilometres (32 miles) away.

    Host nation France chose the Lake Geneva resort spa town
    of Evian for the June 1-3 annual meeting of the Group of Eight
    knowing the narrow access roads would make it easy to close
    off to the often violent protesters who regard the G8 as a
    rich state club.

    But that left the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne, where
    some of the invited Third World leaders were staying, and
    Geneva to bear the brunt of the protesters fury.


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