Protest against restarting the smelter

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Children with gas masks and placards protest against the largest polluter in their city. Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore.

02/05

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Children with gas masks and placards protest against the largest polluter in their city. Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore.

03/05

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Children with gas masks and placards protest against the largest polluter in their city. Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore.

04/05

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Children with gas masks and placards protest against the largest polluter in their city. Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore.

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Children with gas masks and placards protest against the largest polluter in their city. Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore.

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Hundreds of children from Veles, with gas-masks on their faces, protest against the restart of a smelter, the largest polluter in their city. Veles, Macedonia. 9th November 2011

Hundreds of children from Veles, with gas-masks on their faces, protest against the smelter, the largest polluter in their city. "Enough smelter", "Smelter never again" were just some of the slogans with which they expressed their anger against the restarting of this industrial capacity.