Protests in Hamburg, conducted antiglobalisti Association calling itself «Welcome to hell» went beyond peaceful protest. Protesters form the centers of action in different places of the city, burning bonfires and machine, almost troscha everything in its path, overturning trash cans and smashing Windows. Some stores were looted. The aim of the protesters is building an international trade center, where the summit G20.
In the crowd of protesters were heard explosions and popping. As it turned out – sounds, these were published thrown into the fire with bottles of champagne. Cops attacked with bottles filled with an incendiary mix.
The police had resorted to using water cannons to disperse the crowd, but it is not completely pacified the people.
District summit «Big twenty» enclosed by metal barricades. Some protesters tried to break through the defense of the police and climbed the fence. Eventually the fence broke down and collapsed. More than 10 people, falling from a height of 4 meters, was seriously injured. However, attempts to break the police cordon did not stop.
Fire on the streets in Hamburg’s Sternschanze area now pic.twitter.com/sgtvEeHVFw
— Kara Fox (@karadaniellefox) July 7, 2017
Currently, about 100 protesters were arrested, about 200 police officers received various injuries in the confrontation.
Another group of activists against the establishment of so-called «red zone» covering close to the venue of the summit, tries to hinder the mobility of foreign delegations to the venue of the meeting.
As is well known to support the protesters today in Hamburg arrived and the mayor of new York bill de Blasio, but his whereabouts are currently not reported.
Hamburg is on fire tonight. This is chaos, this is what ‘THEY’ are looking for. pic.twitter.com/alKgC1nW2P
— Pegida Canada (@PegidaCanada) July 7, 2017
Only on the streets of Hamburg today out of about 100 000 demonstrators. Confront them 15 000 police officers. However, since the output of a situation from under the control of the leadership of the city police have already requested reinforcements. At the moment, the city introduced the special forces.
LATEST — Heavily armed special forces deployed on the streets of Hamburg as the anti-G20 protests escalate https://t.co/gs3U59RB2c pic.twitter.com/fKqCG14mv1
— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) July 7, 2017
As previously reported, on the eve of the police of Hamburg was also arrested people who were planning an attack during the summit.
