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  • Police struggle with far-left Berlin protest (Germany)

    03/24/2014 1:51:15 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 24 Mar 2014 10:48 GMT+01:00 | (DPA/The Local)
    Cars were set alight and stink bombs set off after a far-left demo against “state repression” descended into chaos in Berlin over the weekend. Two policemen were injured and 17 protesters arrested in the 12-hour long police operation across the city, which saw almost 2,000 officers deployed. Organizers said they were protesting against heavy-handed police tactics such as those seen in Hamburg in early January, where disturbances led to a long crackdown and police restricted zone. Over the course of the weekend, an estimated 1,300 people took to the streets in Kreuzberg, Moabit and Friedrichshain including feminists, members of the...