By this time police had already brought in water canons and were ready to protect the road. Even though several groups of people managed to cross the police lines and do sit down protests as well as building some barricades. The stand off lasted for most of the day, effectively blocking the road 200 meters away from the gate for the whole day. Later in the afternoon, whilst the main group of people that by that time had ground to more than 3000 people were keeping their ground in front of the police lines, several smaller affinity groups spread around the fence trying to stretch police resources whilst others carrying on with smaller actions in different parts of the road.
Later in the evening police eventually dispersed those still on the blockade, injuring several people.
Crowds walking through the forests ...
... so to seek the cover from the trees ...
... whilst building small barricades to prevent police cars from using the lanes
A 'y' shapped view of the crowd crossing a field on the way
and another field
crowd retreating back into the forest as sound of police helicopter nears
final push towards the western gate on the open ground
but the police were not too happy about it....
view of the security fence by west gate
