- Title: GERMANY: TIGHT SECURITY IN PLACE AHEAD OF INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE CONFERENCE.
- Date: 1st February 2002
- Summary: (U1) MUNICH, GERMANY (JANUARY 31, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS SHOTS OF SHOP-FRONTS BEING BOARDED UP 2. EXTERIOR OF MUNICH POLICE HEADQUARTERS 3. VARIOUS SHOTS OF PRESS CONFERENCE WITH POLICE-CHIEF ROLAND KOLLER 4. (SOUNDBITE) (German) POLICE-CHIEF ROLAND KOLLER SAYING: "Munich city and the Munich police could do without violent demonstrations. A ban on demonstrations cannot guarantee that violent activists won't come to Munich, but it reduces the risk to the population and the police." 5. VARIOUS SHOTS OF WHITE DOVES IN CAGES ON THE MARIENPLATZ 6. VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE PEACE-DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE TOWN HALL 7. WIDE SHOTS OF TOWN HALL 8. WIDE OF DOVES BEING LET OUT OF THE CAGES AND FLYING AWAY 9. CLOSE UP OF BANNER SAYING PEACE WITH FLOWERS 10. CLOSE UP OF POSTER 11. VARIOUS SHOTS OF POLICE PULLING OVER DRIVERS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MUNICH 12. VARIOUS SHOTS OF POLICE CHECKING VEHICLE PAPERS 13. (SOUNDBITE) (German) CHIEF POLICE COMMISSIONER FOR UPPER-BAVARIA, HANS-PETER KAMMERER SAYING: "Violent activists aren't easy to recognise. We control young people, buses and small cars. It's more relevant who is where at which time, and whether they have banners with them or not. Everyone who looks suspicious will have their papers examined." 14. VARIOUS OF POLICE CHECKING PAPERS Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MUNICH, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVA7ENQIWQ6O4BV35DO3QBBJXW0U
- Story Text: Ahead of the opening of the International Security
Conference, Munich shopkeepers have been boarding up their
premises and the police have banned all demonstrations.
The German city of Munich banned all demonstrations on
Thursday (January 31) for the duration of a conference of
defence ministers and top military officials from around the
world this weekend.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, German counterpart
Rudolf Scharping, U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
and NATO Secretary General George Robertson are among several
hundred participants expected at the annual Munich Conference
on Security.
More than 100 outside organisations had planned to target
the conference to demonstrate against militarism.
They are sitting behind closed doors to draft plans for
future military intervention, the main protest organisers, the
Munich Alliance Against Racism, said in a statement posted on
the internet.
Munich police plan to deploy up to 3,000 officers and will
have more on hand if needed.
Police forces have tightened security worldwide since
previous anti-globalisation protests at the G8 summit in
Genoa, Italy, last July, ended in tragedy when police killed a
demonstrator.
Lawyers for the protesters said they would appeal against
the ban issued by the Munich city government. A decision on an
appeal is expected shortly before the conference opens on
Friday evening.
Organisers have said they will demonstrate whether their
legal appeal is successful or not.
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