Protesters thrown overboard after police ram Greenpeace vessels

[babsbunny]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2631540.ece

By Tony Paterson in Heiligendamm
Published: 08 June 2007
Protests at Germany's G8 summit took a spectacular turn yesterday as police launched a high-speed boat chase through the Baltic and rammed two Greenpeace inflatable speed boats which had breached a maritime security zone, pitching crew members overboard and injuring three.

Dramatic television footage of the chase shot from helicopters showed a small armada of Greenpeace inflatable boats driven by outboard motors speeding into a 10-kilometre wide security zone off the seaside resort of Heiligendamm hosting the summit, taking police patrol boats completely by surprise.

After some delay, five high-powered police vessels went in hot pursuit of the Greenpeace intruders in a chase worthy of a James Bond film. For at least 10 minutes, the police and Greenpeace played a game of seaborne cat and mouse, churning the deep green waters of the Baltic white with their spiralling boat wakes.

[EFerrari]

1. The clip I saw this morning didn't look like a ramming. It looked like

the police's boat went right OVER the Greenpeace boat. :scared: