There was also an anti-repression demonstration. When the two met up near the main bridge numbering a few hundred they were surrounded by hundreds of riot police both swiss and german with many water cannons. As people sat down in the roads for hours the area became increasingly militarised, drawing hundreds and than later thousands of people from Geneva out onto the streets, many still angry at the presence of the German riot police. While the bridge sit down protestors refused to move for several hours there were repeated clashes between local onlookers and riot police in most of the surrounding streets as water cannon, concussion grenades, rubber bullets and gas were used. Once again most of the corporate media has reported that those on the streets were just G8 protestors, but the truth on Monday night was that this was once again an insurrectionary protest by the people of Geneva. The bridge protestors were in the end allowed to leave, while the thousands of locals were mostly dispersed by 1am.