people must realise that the mass riot in geneva last night was not as the media has reported G8 protestors, but in fact was mostly people from geneva and the local area furious at the presence of the out of control german riot police in the city

we watched as all kinds of people, young youth, old folks, people walking dogs and people dressed up for an evening in town were attacked by the german riot cops

at one point a crowd of around two hundred locals and others were watching the german riot polcie as they water cannoned another crowd - standing behind their massed ranks and following them as they advanced

suddenly the german riot police turned around and fired concussion grenades and gas at this crowd of onlookers who scattered as the cops charged backwards!

and so it went cycle after cycle, each time the actions of the riot polcie making it worse and worse - soon and thousands had joined in the streets angry at these foreign riot police attacking them in their own city (quite often out on their own without swiss police escort)

it must have been realised that this was the cause and was inflaming the situation because they pulled out well before the end of the troubles, leaving the streets for some time to the people on the streets

and sure looting took place with many now having extra wardrobe items and things like flash new expensive handbags, but what i remember most was just how angry people were and how happy they were to stand next to people from out of town who had come here to protest against the G8

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the swiss lost it as well including the stupid raiding of the geneve open imc / art space with riot polcie and loads of plain clothes dressed as black block types masked up

people remained calm and tried to control the situation, making sure that it did not get out of hand, and standing up to the cops

when the cops forced their way into the video room it was streamed live and the first things the cops confronted on entering the room was a big tv monitor showing their faces - while they smashed the monitor screen of the server thex did not get their hands on any of the video or other materials

those people who were arrested were soon released but contrary to swiss law were dumped / released out near the border
these people must learn that the imc is not a target for riot polcie and their political undercover cops - the swiss certainly fucked it up last night