Berlin can do like Bangkok ;-)
On Labour Day 1st of may 2009 in Berlin 440 police men and a unknown number of citizens had been injured.
Thousands of people were out on the street - some marching peacefully, some having party, and some fighting. Straight anarchists and dumb muppets came together to fight against 7000 cops.
Same procedure as every year: Some idiots burn down cars and waste containers and smash shop windows. Thereupon the police starts with surrounding randomly some involved or noninvolved demonstrants and uses batons, pepper spray and water cannons while the demonstrants fight back with bottles and stones. The hard core of the scene comes with molotow cocktails. The polive is said to be very brutal. Volunteers try to calm down police violence by speaking to the most brutal ones and filming with cameras and mobiles.
My girl encouraged me to post that journal. She said, she wants people to know that not only Thai people rage against the system. OK, here we are ...
The teaser-graphic is made by me, but I didn't shoot the pics. Since I live 150 meters away from the absolute hot-spot of the main fights I decided not leave the house that day ... hoping nobody would happen to burn down the whole street ;-)








Pepper spray (or was it deo?)




Some tried to heat up ...

Some tried to cool down everything ...

The newest models of Robo-Cops could be tested successfully


Although
some small correctures
on behaviour have to be made

At least one good thing happened.
The building of the Federal Ministry Of Finance
got more colorful :-)

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