Germany: ca. 320 arrests at student demonstration

me | 07.07.2006 09:44 | Education | Repression | World

Yesterday, July 6th, police made around 320 arrests during a protest by students against tuition fees. Ca. 6000 students marched through the city of Frankfurt a.M. demanding a retraction of the planed fees and social cuts in general.

Just a very short summary:
During a hot and sunny day the protest started peacefully without incidents. A Mix of students, pupils, union members from all over germany participated. Despite the heavy police presence the mood was quite good. After the closing rally at the Opernplatz hundreds decided to go and block the city highway (a common practice in the last monts/weeks). At this point the cops started to attack the demonstration with clubs and pepperspray and many were arrested. It was by far the biggest wave of arrests at a student demonstration in the last months, as the level of repression rises more and more.

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Update+Correction

07.07.2006 10:09

Not 320 arrests were made, but 230. All of them have been released by today and facing different charges from breach of the public peace, rioting, coercion and/or resistance against police officers.

in the last two years

07.07.2006 10:51

the policy of state, universities and cops towards student activism has changed in some places like e.g. frankfurt and hamburg; traditionally, there was only rarely an inteference by the police on activities on campus and generally students' demonstrations were not atacked by the police

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