Kurdisch Center: witness first 30 min Gray Wolves attack
grapo marx - 24.10.2011 01:32
i witnessed the attack of the gray wolves from the beginning (16.00), for half hour
Today Sunday the 23rd of October i was directly present at the attack of the Gray Wolves against the Kurdisch Centrum of Stadionkade, Amsterdam.
I'm a musician and since today i 'm in charge of giving music lessons there. I found myself at ease, having been offered to eat a meal,
as soon as the lesson was finished.
I left the Centrum at about 16.00. I noticed a demo blocking Overtoom, coming towards the bridge on asmtelveensweg, went to see: as soon as i found out that it was a "turkish-flags demo" escorted by a police car (didn't really got what was about) i thought to go back to the Centrum and ask if maybe they wouldn't have been soon the target of the demo. Why? because in the centrum i watched some news (kurdish tv)
with tanks on the streets of some kurdish city.
A man at the door didn't understand my question, but he realized soon what was going on, as soon as the demo was approaching. In a short while the first demontstrant, a very young guy, shouted against the man. The man of the centrum closed the door. I kept asking what was going on to many demostrant, no one replied.
Soon many demostrants kicked the door, than a first big stone crashed the glass which was part of it. I stood at one meter from the door. Kept a due distance, not to be killed by the street stones which were continuously thrown . A stone smashed the rear screen of a car too. A garbage bin was bumped against the door. After three minutes all the glasses of the door where broken by stones.
At that time the police intervened, from a side road, to chase away the demostrants. The turkish flags people quite slowly moved back towards the bridge. When the street was clear for about fourty meters the people inside the centrum begun to exit. Soon the police pushed them back in, with knuppels and pepper gas. I guess it was pepper gas because a fine drop fell into my eye, even though i was at a distance of at least 6 meters. Nothing harmful, but I decided to leave. On the way a young demostrant with a turkish flag on his back explained me the reason of the manifestation.
Unfortunately i don't know anything about the facts happened afterward!
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