"Carlo vive!"
DeWaarheid.nu - 17.03.2002 00:28
Protesters at EU Summit in Spain; EU
Wrestles with Free Market as Riot Police Wade In.
Obviously dressed as an ´anarchist´; Agent provocateur?
BARCELONA -- Police fired rubber bullets and clubbed anti-globalization protesters who threw rocks and garbage cans and rampaged through downtown Barcelona as EU leaders met inside a heavily guarded compound outside the city.
The rioters were among about 2,000 protesters who marched through Barcelona´s central shopping district Friday, trailed by the wail of sirens and a police helicopter.
Police said 24 people -- including six Basque nationalists who overturned a car -- were arrested for public disorder and resisting authority, but no major injuries were reported.
A photographer for Barcelona´s La Vanguardia newspaper was struck by officers when he got in the way but was not wounded, police said.
Dozens held a candlelight memorial for a protester who was shot and killed by police last summer at a Genoa, Italy, summit of the world´s richest nations. "An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth" was painted on the wall of a nearby apartment building.
Hundreds of young activists who accuse their governments of selling out to global big business ran from baton-swinging officers as they tried to gather in Barcelona´s downtown port area, several km (miles) from where EU leaders were meeting within the fortress like confines of a suburban congress center.
Though the first flare-up of violence was quickly quelled, some 8,500 police remained on alert as darkness fell, wary of a repeat of rioting at an international summit in July at Genoa in which a young Italian, Carlo Giuliani, was shot dead by police.
"Carlo vive!" (Carlo lives) yelled some young activists as they ran down Barcelona´s historic Ramblas Avenue.
Organizers said there were 10,000 demonstrators in town, but not all participated in Friday´s rallies. A larger protest was planned Saturday.
(AP; Reuters. 15 March 2002)
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PHOTO ATTACHMENT. Note arresting officer above protester -- obviously dressed as an ´anarchist´; agent provocateur?
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