Two huge crisis-demonstations in Gemany last Saturday
globalinfo.nl | 16.06.2010 13:28 | Globalisation
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demonstrators away (hand in hand with security from trade union DGB) pictures:
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video:
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In Berlin between 20.000 en 35.000 people showed up (depending on the source one uses). There also a anti-capitalist block was loudly present, calling for the 'killing of an undead system'
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police units, which effectively stopped the attacks for a short moment. Police spokespersons reacted furious and claim it was a 'fragmentation explosive' ('Splitterbombe') that wounded 13 policemen, of which two had to be taken to hospital. Almost all media, except leftist Junge Welt
copied this as being true and made it their front page news. The incident is however very misty and the German police is known for feeding gross exaggerations and even pure lies to media, as for instance was showed during the G8-demonstrations in Heilgendamm in 2007 (
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Most probably the 'explosive' was some package of heavy fireworks. The bang is filmed from many angles (like here
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injured policemen, also none of the demonstrators standing on the same place got wounded. But politicians and police are making a big fuzz out of it, announce heavy measures against demonstrators and on police forums cops announce they are going to shoot next time (some also
announce they will quit their job). Spiegel TV (a weekly magazine/website) even sees 'the return of
RAF-terrorism'
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Taz zeitung, a left from centre newspaper at first copied the police version, but later wrote about 'a very misty explosive'
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The side effect of all this fuzz about fireworks is the diversion of attention from the crisis and the demonstrations. A video about the demonstration in Berlin:
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