Sunday, April 5, 2009

Demonstrators set fire to a hotel in Strasbourg.

FotogalereiNo NATO03.04.2009Antiglobalisty to meet NATO summit, NATO besporyadkamiProtivniki traditional fire to the Hotel Ibis "in Strasbourg, where the summit of the alliance. The rioters left the building when the fire reached the first floor, and then to the hotel, firefighters arrived.
Around Europe, the bridge, which connects France with Germany, the demonstrators set fire to a police office, customs house and a shop at the petrol station, reported AFP.
Due to the spouses of the leaders of street riots, NATO had to change a program host. For security reasons, has been canceled their visit to the Cancer Center: near the hospital gathered around a thousand demonstrators.
The rioters in Strasbourg забрасÑ&lsqauo;вают police with stones and Molotov cocktails. The police responded with tear gas and used svetoshumovye grenades.
A total of demonstrations in Strasbourg, according to the organizers of the shares, was attended by 30 thousand people. Local authorities estimate the total number of demonstrators at 10 thousand. Active participation in the riots took about a thousand opponents of NATO.
Reports AP, on the German side of the border gathered about five thousand people who were going to move to Strasbourg. The demonstration was stopped by police.

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