GERMANY: Official May Day demonstrations in Berlin and Hamburg remain fairly peaceful, although protesters and police clash later in the night

Record ID: 863338

  • Title: GERMANY: Official May Day demonstrations in Berlin and Hamburg remain fairly peaceful, although protesters and police clash later in the night
  • Date: 2nd May 2012
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 1, 2012) (REUTERS) BEGINNING OF MAY DEMONSTRATION WITH BANNER READING "THE PRESSURE RISES" VARIOUS OF 'BLACK BLOCK" (LEFTIST RADICALS) IN DEMONSTRATION BENGAL FIRE ON STREET HEADQUARTERS OF 'BILD' (GERMAN DAILY) AND PAN TO DEMONSTRATION POLICE DETAINING DEMONSTRATOR VARIOUS OF SCUFFLES BETWEEN POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS HAMBURG, GERMANY (MAY 1, 2012) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) POLICE IN CITY SQUARE AND PAN TO DEMONSTRATORS VARIOUS OF SCUFFLES BETWEEN POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS POLICE CHARGING POLICE IN RIOT GEAR NIGHT PICTURES FIRE IN FRONT OF 'RED FLORA' (ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE) WATER CANNON IN STREET DEMONSTRATORS BEING HIT BY WATER CANNON MORE OF WATER CANNON ONLOOKERS IN WINDOWS VARIOUS OF SCUFFLES BETWEEN POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS
  • Embargoed: 17th May 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
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  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVACKTR35W5NT5K11IKBZM1X68ML
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  • Story Text: As expected Tuesday (May 1) saw demonstrations in Berlin and Hamburg turn nasty.
    After relatively peaceful official demonstrations, police and protesters clashed later in both cities.
    There were scuffles prior to to the start of the official demonstration in Berlin. Demonstrators protesting under the motto; "The pressure rises", attacked the police with bottles and stones.
    According to the police about 10.000 people joined the demonstration in Berlin which they countered with 7 000 police.
    Over and over the so-called 'Black Block', the alternative radicals, pushed and shoved the police at the very front of the demonstration.
    When stones and bottle flew again near the Jewish museum in Berlin the police called for an early end to the demonstration.
    At the same time there were similar scenes in Hamburg, where police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators. Police called off the official demonstration after protesters threw bottles and stones at them. Two policeman were injured.
    Later demonstrators gathered outside the alternative cultural centre, 'Rote Flora', where the police used water cannons to disperse them.
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