Anti -Globalists conducted demonstrations against the next G8 summit

Several tens of thousands of anti -globalists took part in the march of protest against the meeting of the leaders of the Eight Group at the French Mountain Resort Evian. The dissatisfied was not allowed to France, so the manifestations took place in the territory of neighboring Switzerland.

According to the participants in this action, about 100 thousand people participated in it, but the Swiss police believe that there were about 20 thousand of them.

After a calm manifestation on Monday night, riots occurred, in which the most radical anti -globalists participated. According to Interfax, clashes in the center of Geneva lasted 9 hours. The manifestants threw the police stones. They answered them with volleys of grenades with tear gas, fired at the demonstrators with rubber bullets and watered from water bodies.

The help of the Swiss law enforcement officers was provided by their German colleagues, transferred to the city from the Geneva International Airport, which they guard at the request of the Swiss government during the Great Eight summit in Evian.

In the city center, the protesters defeated the windows of several stores, some stores set fire to and plundered, set fire to a gas station, smashed the glasses of houses close, RIA Novosti reports. There are detainees, the number of which is not specified.

The protests of anti -globalists also took place in the Swiss city of Lausanne, where about 400 people were detained.

Eight people received wounds during clashes of instigators of riots with the police. With severe burns of the neck, a policeman was taken to the hospital.

The police nearly killed the demonstrator

According to Ananova, at least two demonstrators, both British, were seriously injured.

Martin Show, 39 years old, received numerous damage when the policeman cut the rope, which he tied himself to the bridge, and the show from a height of 20 meters fell into the water. It happened near the city of Lausanne.

"We were all there, explained the situation to the police, but they panicked and finally cut the rope. Martin fell down, we thought that he broke to death. At the other end of the rope there was a girl from England. Fortunately, we managed to get her upstairs." Five young people from Indymedia who took part in the groups of foreign activists in the overlap of the Geneva-Annemass motorway are clearly excited.

“This technique is used very often,” Francesca explains. “The rope is pulled with a poster. At the two ends of the rope, two people hang as a counterweight. Thus, the police can do nothing.” But this time the calculation was incorrect. “When the police arrived,” says Andrea, “they began to pull the rope, then they lifted it to skip the cars. We explained to them that they were risking the lives of two people, but they pretended that they did not understand.”

All five were delivered to the police station in Lausanne, reports Corriere Della Serra in an article published by Inopressa . “We wanted to be interrogated,” they said, “but they frankly told us that it would be better if we pretend that nothing happened. They threatened us. But we all filmed on the video and show the record on our website so that everyone can see.” The police admitted that they cut the rope. "We could not do otherwise."

In addition, the photographer of Images Sans Fronties, Dan Smallman, suffered from the explosion of the shock grenade - his leg hurt. To assist a 31-year-old photographer, they sent Geneva to one of the hospitals.

According to Switzerland’s highest police officers, the Alternative Center for Anti -Globalists, located in Geneva, is “the main instigator of violence, to which the participants in the demonstrations and protest rallies against the Big Eight in Eviana resort to.