(7 Jun 2007)
AP Television
Bad Doberan
1. Wide of police talking to protesters next to road, pan to detained protesters sitting down
2. Police searching man against van
3. Wide of detained people sitting down, surrounded by police
4. Medium of detained people sitting on ground, one man is led away
5. Close-up of police searching bag
6. Close-up of hands being tied together, zoom out to show various men put into police vehicle
AP Television
Bad Doberan
7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Reinhardt Hoing, G8 Police spokesman:
“You know that it was in a zone where gathering has been banned and where demonstrating was not allowed, the head of the police operation decided to let them do the sit-ins in order to avoid overreaction. We tried to manage de-escalation. We only intervene if faced with violence or if we really need the roads to move our vehicles around.”
POOL
Bad Doberan region
8. Various aerials of protesters on roads between Bad Doberan and Heiligendamm
POOL
Boergerende
9. Wide pan from protesters to police
10. Wide of road with police vehicles
11. Pan from police to protesters
12. Protesters sitting on road in front of police
13. Protesters in field
14. Various of scuffles between security and protesters
STORYLINE:
German police detained a number of protesters on the road between Rostock and Bad Doberan on Thursday morning one day into the Group of Eight (G-8) summit being held nearby.
Protesters had erected a blockade on the road using tree trunks as obstacles before conducting a sit down protest.
Police cleared the trees and searched the protesters before detaining them.
AP Television filmed a number of protesters being arrested and several having their hands tied with riot cuffs.
Meanwhile, in Boergerende a minor scuffle broke out between security and protesters. Police in protective clothing observed other protesters in the area.
On Wednesday night hundreds of protesters camped down on one of the roads leading to Germany’s G8 summit in Heiligendamm, as dozens of riot police stationed themselves nearby.
Earlier on Wednesday, thousands of protesters had streamed across fields and through forests, some hurling stones and sparring with riot police, others throwing themselves down on roads and railways tracks in a bid to disrupt the summit.
An estimated 10-thousand protesters swarmed the area, ignoring a ban to stay at least six kilometres (3.7 miles) from the barbed-wire fence protecting the summit site, police said.
More than 130 people were arrested and at least eight officers were slightly injured on Wednesday, police said.
Germany is spending $124.32 million (m) US dollars on the summit and has deployed 16-thousand police officers, along with scores of armoured personnel carriers, trucks with water-cannons atop and other support vehicles.
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