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| Danish police detain climate protesters |
| 2009-12-17 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Danish police detained 240 people on Wednesday when protesters stormed barricades around a global climate summit and briefly broke through a police cordon, witnesses and police said. Police, some with dogs, used truncheons and pepper spray to keep back the hundreds of protesters who gathered outside Copenhagen's Bella Centre, where world leaders are meeting to try to broker a new deal on global warming. After hours of scuffles, most demonstrators began to drift away from the conference centre on the outskirts of the Danish capital by late afternoon. "After we and the protesters had looked at each other for a while and we tried to have a dialogue, then the majority of the protesters decided to head back into the city, so ... it seems to be over," Copenhagen police chief superintendent Per Larsen said on Danish TV 2 news. Demonstrators tried to penetrate a police cordon around the conference centre, and a few did break through an outer ring of security momentarily but were chased down by police, a Reuters witness said. Roads surrounding the centre and the nearest metro station were closed in response to the protests. A helicopter circled overhead, and police inspected the belongings of some people heading towards the conference venue. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 If they are Muslim they are not considered protesters, but rather miss-understood youth and the police would look the other way. |
| Posted by: Kelly 2009-12-17 08:47 |
| #1 I've caught a news item on Copenhagen Police dealing with protesters--- very rough. I wonder what'd happened if the protesters were Muslims? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-17 05:13 |