GENEVA (dpa-AFX) – After a partially degenerated demonstration against the upcoming G7 summit in France, the police in Geneva surrounded a hard core of violent demonstrators. The personal details of several hundred people would be established and some might be arrested for criminal prosecution, the spokesman for a responsible local authority, Laurent Paoliello, told the broadcaster RTS.
According to him, the material damage was limited. He praised the police’s efforts. Nobody was injured.
Chaotic people had overshadowed the protest march of thousands of peaceful demonstrators with their violent actions. They tore paving stones out of the ground and smashed numerous shop windows. The police used tear gas and water cannons in the evening.
According to the police, 20,000 people were on the streets, the organizers spoke of 60,000. They wanted to march to protest against the meeting of the heads of state and government of the G7 countries, which begins on Monday in nearby Évian on the French side of Lake Geneva./oe/DP/zb