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Date Mon, 11 May 2000 13:10:33 -0400 Left/Liberal newspaper TAZ writes that among the 400 arrested at the "Revolutionary May 1st Demonstration" in Berlin, is a policeman from Leipzig. He was not on duty, but on a holliday when by coincidence he saw the demontration pass by. Police attacked the demonstration and as usual didn't hesitate to rough up innocent bystanders. Our tourist from Leipzig got so angry when riot-cops hit him, that he joined the demonstrators who defended themselves throwing stones, bottles and other portable stuff. According to the police the policeman had thrown a bottle at a water-canon when he was arrested. This year's revolutionairy 1st of may demo was 10.000 persons strong (there was also a separate Marxist-Lenininist-Maoist demonstration of some 2000 people. Fascists mobilised 1000 demonstraters earlyer that day in Hellersdorf outskirt and were intensely protected by cops against antifascist). The autonomist/anarchist movement has been demonstrating on this day (again) since 1987. The demonstration that day ended in a major riot in which the police was defeated and thrown out of the leftwing neighborhood Kreuzberg. Biggest warehouse Bolle (a.o.) was fully looted and then burned down. Three days later Reagan was to visit the town... Somehow since then the demonstration always end in a big riot with the police. Newspaper TAZ writes that the troubles started this year because the police made the big misstake to attack the demonstration to arrest people at the end at Oranien-Platz (park). They lost. Spartacus-type scenes (the film) were seen. The chief of police described it as follows "The sky looked grey so many stones flew". And the newspaper describes classical events such as flowerpots being trown out of windows on the cops, and neigbours putting ladders against the walls leading to gardens, so activists could get away more easy. 279 police-men/women were reported woonded and teargas filled the streets... It's not the first time police fight their own kind in Germany, by the way. One of the historical annecdotes in the early eighties is the courtcase a plain-cloth cop started against his employers. He had to infiltrate in leftwing activist circles during antimilitarist demonstrations, but his colleagues got him (not nowing who he was) and beat him up so severly that he was partly paralysed and had to quit his 'work'. (end): This was another of those marvelous teksts of Liberal Animation Prods. (LAP). LAP writes the truth, but in bad english out of principle) ******** From: http://www.ainfos.ca
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