People are saying police are using rubber bullets up front
The police line is moving up, now there's a big fire on the bridge, assume it was started by protesters
A group of anarchist kids just pulled down a cctv camera and are smashing it with rocks, no police around this bit
by commentisfree at 4/4/2009 10:23:14 AM
by commentisfree at 4/4/2009 10:24:04 AM
Fire on the bridge now
The police have opened the bridge now, we are marching now to pont d'europe to meet the other marches
Some protesters are throwing rocks at the police, everyone is ripping down cctv cameras
Attacking billboards too, think that's an advert for orange mobile
by commentisfree at 4/4/2009 10:39:58 AM
Anarchists are smashing up a petrol station and everything else on the route
Rocks from the railway track are being gathered by some protesters, we'll see what happens
There's even a swp stall here
Just went into a gravelly kind of carpark, where there's food and a stage where the speeches will be made, apparently one by Noam Chomsky
Now on the bridge that leads to Germany, this the final destination. Border is usually open but closed for duration of conference
There's another fire on bridge. Helicopter overhead
A building is being taken apart by about 40 kids in masks. Policing very different to uk and G20, haven't seen a policeman for about a hour
Building is now on fire. Graffitti: 'tremblez capitalistes' and 'guerre sociale!'
twitpic.com You'll prob be seeing this photo a lot
On the border with Germany is a thick line of hardcore-looking polizei and about 6 water canon trucks. No protesters are hassling them at mo
The waters under the bridge are full of police boats. Apparently the German police won't let the German protesters through to France
There's a German politician here arguing with the police, trying to find out what his name is
Ok his name is Wolfgang Gehrcke and he's pissed off at NATO and the German police, says he will ask question in parliament. Looks stressed
Smoking a marlboro red and shaking quite a bit he looks quite nervous
Dodgy German rock on stage, sun shining though
Lots of speeches in french and spanish, they reckon about 30,000. I'd say half that
Bianca Jagger is speaking now, thinks no one is paying attention to her, two hotels are on fire, and there's tear gas, she speaks french too
There's huge fires now surrounding the area the stage is in, police are shooting tear gas
The Ibis hotel is up in smoke, police firing rubber bullets
Fence has been torn down, people are leaving that way, or trying to leave
The riot police are coming, protesters were hitting the vans
March has moved off ok now, calm now, but looks like the route is back into town
Looks like 20-30 thousand now, heading into town
Mayor of strasbourg has said the German demo cannot cross the border
March has been stopped at a bridge by the police, guessing they'll keep it here for hours
The march is back off in a new direction after police tear gassed
March has gone in new direction. Swp contingent on mÝ left with Professor Alex Callinicos I thinks
Reports of injuries around Ibis hotel, demo about 1.5 km long
March is being held up indefinitely. The large Kurdish contingent are doing traditional dance and a truck is playing french drum and bass
Aldes building getting smashed up
Pitch battle between police and black block. Looked like the police were retreating for a while, bb throwing stones and flares
The protest dispersed by tear gas, walked down some train tracks, heading to town, there is a bunch of french people walking backwards
phone doesnt know if im in Germany or France so might have problems updating from now at the moment we are going back to town
by commentisfree at 4/4/2009 10:23:14 AM
by commentisfree at 4/4/2009 10:24:04 AM
by commentisfree at 4/4/2009 10:39:58 AM