Farmers whose crops were trampled by demonstrators evading police checkpoints on Wednesday at the G8 summit demanded compensation, according to dpa. Detlef Lindemann, chief of the farmer's union at Bad Doberan, said several hectares of rapeseed and grain were ruined when demonstrators swarmed across fields. He said those crops were worth about 1,000 euros (1,300 dollars) per hectare, but did not say who should pay, though he accused police of failing to protect the fields while they concentrated on monitoring roads. Most of the idyllic countryside around the Heiligendamm summit venue is made up of fields and woods.
