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Italian Police use tear gas against anti-Bush protesters throwing bottles
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 06 - 2007


Italian riot police used tear gas Saturday
against anti-Bush demonstrators who donned face masks in
defiance of a police order and threw bottles and other
objects, disrupting an anti-globalization demonstration
that was ending in the capital's ancient center, REPORTED AP.
The violence broke out after U.S. President George W. Bush
had concluded his official business for the day during a
visit to Italy and had returned to the residence of the
U.S. ambassador across town.
More than an hour into the clashes, police charged the
demonstrators, pursuing them down alleyways to break up the
crowd as helicopters circled overhead.
At least one protester was detained and taken away by
police in plain clothes. An AP reporter saw at least one
police officer injured as well as one demonstrator. The
news agency ANSA reported three police injured.
The violence broke out as the protest march reached its
destination at Piazza Navona, famed for its Bernini
fountain and a favorite tourist gathering spot. Thousands
of police had been deployed around the Colosseum, the
downtown Piazza Venezia and other venues to guard against
the violence and demonstrators had been warned not to cover
their faces, carry sticks or other weapons.
Smoke filled a broad boulevard from which violent
demonstrators lobbed objects at police taking cover in an
alley. Nearby, demonstrators kicked in the window of a
bank.
Masked demonstrators wearing black had infiltrated the
otherwise peaceful protest and used it as cover to hurl
objects at police. Other protesters later tried to stand
between the violent elements and the police, putting up
their arms to prevent further violence.
Organizers put the crowd in the main demonstration, which
earlier had marched peacefully through the city behind a
banner «No Bush, no war,» and beating drums at some
150,000. The march stretched for about a kilometer (less
than a mile.)


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