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Clashes after demonstration against police brutality

Clashes broke out during a demonstration against a police congress, police violence and repression. Several shop windows and police cars were...

by Theo Schneider in Germany on 28/01/2012

Politics

People demonstration against police brutality

Around 1200 people participated in a demonstration against police brutality. During the autonomous march, firecrackers were thrown and pyrotechnics...

by Theo Schneider in Germany on 28/01/2012

Politics

Anti-Fascists march in remembrance of Silvio Meier's death - Berlin

Anti-Fascist demonstrators marched against neo-Nazis and in remembrance of Silvio Meier, who was a squatter that was murdered by Fascists in early...

by Theo Schneider in Germany on 19/11/2011

BREAKING NEWS

22/01/2012 - Arson attack against postal trucks in Berlin - Germany - Unknown persons set fire to two postal...
10/12/2011 - Clashes in Stockholm during Nobel awards - Sweden - Clashes broke out between left-wing and...
20/11/2011 - Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party declares victory in General election - Spain - Spain's centre-right Popular Party...
20/11/2011 - Spanish General Election Vote count Begins - Madrid - Spain - Vote counting began at the Luis Bello...
20/10/2011 - Many injured in severe inter-protester battle - Athens - Greece - Thousands protest in Athens during the...
08/10/2011 - Anti-war rally at Trafalgar Square - United Kingdom - Thousands of people participated in the...
02/10/2011 - March against Conservative Party Conference - United Kingdom - Over 30,000 people joined a march...
11/07/2011 - Jews and Arabs scuffle over flags at Simon The Just Grave - Jerusalem - Israel - Following a tense Jewish tour of the...
11/07/2011 - Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir tour Sheikh Jarrah - Jerusalem - Israel - Right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and...
07/06/2011 - Demonstration against World Economic Forum in Vienna - Austria - Due to the ongoing World Economic Forum...

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People demonstration against police brutality
Around 1200 people participated in a demonstration against police brutality. During the autonomous march, firecrackers were thrown and pyrotechnics were burned. Berlin, Germany. 28th J...
Clashes after demonstration against police brutality
Clashes broke out during a demonstration against a police congress, police violence and repression. Several shop windows and police cars were attacked and damaged. The police could only...
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Arson attack against postal trucks in Berlin
Unknown persons set fire to two postal trucks in Berlin. The police department are focused on political crime leads. In the past, left-wing extremists confessed responsible for similar ...
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Commemoration of the massacre of Acca Larentia in Rome
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Clashes in Stockholm during Nobel awards
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Van's return to normality thwarted by politics
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