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Protesters wreaked havoc Friday in the G20 summit's host city of Hamburg, forcing the police to call in
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Protesters wreaked havoc Friday in the G20 summit's host city of Hamburg, forcing the police to call in reinforcements from other parts of Germany, as Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the violence wrought by demonstrators as "unacceptable".

Merkel said she could understand peaceful protests, but demonstrations that "put people’s lives in danger, put the protesters' own lives in danger... are unacceptable".
Hundreds of hard-left activists forced US President Donald Trump's wife to cancel her programme for the day, The Local news site reported.
Ahead of a concert on Friday evening for G20 leaders and their spouses at the port city's new landmark Elbphilharmonie concert hall, protesters were concentrating their efforts at blocking access to the site.
On the eve of the summit of the leaders of the world's top 20 economies, a protest march in the northern port city by 12,000 people quickly got out of hand.
After a hard core of around 1,000 black-clad militants ignored authorities' demands to remove their masks, riot police moved in with water cannon trucks and tear gas.
That set the stage for hours of running battles between police and protesters in the back streets of Germany's second city that left 111 police officers injured, authorities said.
It was unclear how many protesters were hurt. Organiser Andreas Blechschmidt criticised what he said was a heavy-handed and "massive" police response with batons.
"The police should have reacted proportionally... It wasn't necessary. There are a lot of people injured," Blechschmidt said on N-TV. Around 30 people were arrested.
"War, climate change, exploitation are the result of the capitalist system that the G20 stands for and which 20,000 police are here to defend," demonstrator Georg Ismail told Agence Frane Presse (AFP).
Trouble resumed early Friday as well-organised groups of protesters tried to outfox the 20,000 heavily equipped officers locking down central Hamburg and prevent world leaders even getting to the summit venue.
With smoke rising over the city, groups of 50-100 people blocked intersections and roads meant for delegations' noisy, flashing motorcades to shuttle between meetings, AFP reporters said.
Police, with a sweeping bird's eye view through half a dozen helicopters, coordinated from a high tech centre, were quick to respond with riot police, water cannon and tear gas.
Trump's armoured presidential limo dubbed "The Beast" made it through but other leaders including the president of Indonesia and delegations were delayed, reporters said.
Local resident Benjamin Laub, 53, said his neighbourhood has resembled a zone "under a state of emergency" for days.
"For a week we've heard the choppers above all the time. The buses don't run, people leave their cars at home, they walk or ride bicycles. I'm carrying my passport for the first time in Germany (because of police checks)," said the hockey trainer.
A livid Markus Munch, 48, speaking on his bike near Trump's residence in a plush area beside the Alster lake twinkling in the summer sunshine, had little sympathy for the "idiots" demonstrating.
"It's a total catastrophe that a minority can just riot like this," Munch told AFP "These idiots have nothing better to do than to demonstrate. They have to be moved out

Source: BNA

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