Protesters held ahead of G8 meeting

[Joanne98]

Source: Aljazeera

At least 36 people have been arrested after protesters and police clashed in Rome a day ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit.

Demonstrators hurled bottles at riot police and set fire to tyres on the streets of the Italian capital on Tuesday, news agencies reported.

The clashes came as leaders from some of the world's richest nations gathered in the city ahead of the summit, which begins on Wednesday, aimed at tackling the global economic crisis, climate change and events in Iran.

Italian police were on high alert on the eve of the summit, with 15,000 officers deployed in an effort to prevent a recurrence of the violence seen during the country's last G8 meeting in 2001.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/07/20097714423427305.html

[Earth_First]

1. Good luck, comrades! n/t