pEOPLeVoice . . .: Pertembungan polis rusuhan dengan penunjuk perasaan G8 di London.

Pertembungan polis rusuhan dengan penunjuk perasaan G8 di London. Beratus-ratus pegawai telah keluar di jalan-raya untuk memastikan tindakan hari ini di bawah kawalan sepanjang West End di London di tengah-tengah bantahan terhadap sidang kemuncak G8.

Polis scuffled dengan skor penunjuk perasaan anti-G8 di tengah-tengah London dan dikelilingi bangunan di mana penganjur protes adalah bermesyuarat sebelum sidang kemuncak pemimpin-pemimpin DUNIA di UK minggu depan.

Pergelutan berlaku apabila polis beraleh menangkap individu-individu sebagai satu kumpulan utama kira-kira 30 hingga 50 aktivis, kebanyakannya berpakaian hitam, terbentur pada gendang dan meniup wisel kerana mereka berlari melalui ibu kota.

Penunjuk perasaan telah menganjurkan satu "Karnival Menentang Kapitalisme" di London untuk memulakan satu minggu sebelum tindakan Britain menjadi tuan rumah mesyuarat Kumpulan 8 (G8) negara-negara perindustrian yang terkemuka di sebuah resort golf di Ireland Utara.

Sebahagian daripada dana yang terbesar DUNIA di lindung nilai, firma ekuiti persendirian dan bank-bank telah memberi amaran kepada kakitangan mereka untuk mengambil langkah berjaga-jaga sekiranya berlaku gangguan selepas tunjuk perasaan yang sama pada tahun-tahun kebelakangan ini telah membawa kepada pertempuran dengan polis, vandalisme dan bangunan sementara yang diduduki.

Polis turun di premis tidak jauh dari Regent Street, salah satu kawasan membeli-belah yang paling terkenal di London, di daerah Soho bergaya, di mana kumpulan ‘Stop’ G8 telah memenuhi sebelum demonstrasi.

Lebih daripada 100 pegawai dalam pakaian seragam rusuhan membentuk satu kepungan, memerangkap penunjuk perasaan berkumpul di kawasan yang ketat di sekitar Paruh Street helikopter polis berlegar di atas dan bala menunggu di dalam van.

London Polis Metropolitan berkata ia mempunyai waran mencari alamat. Aktivis, beberapa dengan muka mereka dilindungi, mengibarkan bendera hitam, hijau dan merah kerana mereka berarak melalui Oxford Street. Mereka membawa sepanduk mengatakan "Tiada sempadan, tiada penjara, tiada kapitalisme" dan "Satu Perjuangan biasa".

Terdapat pertempuran di sekitar Oxford Street, dengan rakaman televisyen menunjukkan polis mengheret seorang penunjuk perasaan ke tanah. Saksi Reuters menyaksikan sekurang-kurangnya 5 orang ditangkap berhampiran Piccadilly Circus.

Riot police clash with G8 protesters in London. Hundreds of officers were out on the streets to keep today's action under control throughout London's West End amid protests against the G8 summit.

Police scuffled with scores of anti-G8 demonstrators in central London and surrounded a building where protest organisers were meeting before a summit of world leaders in UK next week.

Scuffles broke out when police moved in to arrest individuals as a main group of around 30 to 50 activists, mostly dressed in black, banged on drums and blew whistles as they ran through the capital.

The demonstrators were staging a "Carnival Against Capitalism" across London to start a week of action before Britain hosts the meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations at a golf resort in Northern Ireland.

Some of the world's biggest hedge funds, private equity firms and banks have warned their staff to take precautions in the event of disruption after similar protests in recent years led to violent clashes with police, vandalism and buildings being temporarily occupied.

Police descended on premises just off Regent Street, one of London's best known shopping areas, in the fashionable Soho district, where the StopG8 group had been meeting before the demonstration.

More than 100 officers in riot uniforms formed a cordon, trapping the gathering protesters in a tight area around Beak Street as police helicopters hovered above and reinforcements waited in vans.

London's Metropolitan Police said it had a search warrant for the address. Activists, some with their faces covered, waved black, green and red flags as they marched through Oxford Street. They carried banners saying "No borders, no prisons, no capitalism" and "One Common Struggle".

There were skirmishes around Oxford Street, with television footage showing police dragging one protester to the ground. Reuters witnesses saw at least five people arrested near Piccadilly Circus.

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