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Protesters battle police ahead of NATO summit
Thu Apr 2, 2009 3:00pm EDT
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By Gilbert Reilhac and Lucien Libert
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in the French city of Strasbourg Thursday on the eve of a NATO summit, with one cornered soldier drawing his gun to escape attack.
Police fired tear gas at the hooded youths, forcing them back toward a campsite set up to house protesters during the two-day summit being co-hosted by France and Germany.
The rampaging protesters smashed windows, vandalized cars and barricaded a street in their bid to reach the city center.
"Mediators in the camp are trying to talk to activists and police and defuse the situation," said Reiner Braun, one of the organizers of the anti-NATO movement, adding that police were not letting people enter or leave the campsite.
"We have no sympathy for the vandalizing," he told Reuters.
Protest leaders have said they want to bring chaos to the NATO gathering by peaceful means and police have warned that clashes at the G20 meeting in London earlier this week have fueled tensions.
Rioters charged a military vehicle that happened to cross their path, with a masked youth hurling a pole through the windshield. One of the two occupants, who was wearing uniform, drew his gun and pointed it toward the sky, giving his partner time to drive off.
Police later detained dozens of demonstrators, making them lie face down before hauling them off. Journalists were stopped by police from approaching the campsite area.
Other youths headed into the surrounding woods, chased by security guards.
U.S. President Barack Obama is due to arrive in France on Friday morning and will take part in two events in Strasbourg before traveling to Baden Baden, just across the German border.
About a hundred people staged a peaceful demonstration in Baden Baden, calling on nations to spend less on defense and more on fighting poverty.
Security forces tried to restrict access to Strasbourg and Baden Baden Thursday, with helicopters circling overhead, crowd barriers strung along the streets and hundreds of police patrolling the highways.
German police said they feared violent confrontations on Friday when the NATO meeting formally begins in Baden Baden, Some 20,000 protesters are expected.
Rainer Wendt, head of German police trade union DPolG, said the situation had grown more tense following the death of a man at protests in London Wednesday night against the G20 summit.
"We've seen that it just takes 24 hours and you can already read on the Internet that police are apparently to blame. People wind each other up," he told Reuters. Continued...
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