100 Police violently attack G20 Festive Gathering in Melbourne

by Takver

Sat, Nov 18, 2006 7:30AM

The G20 meeting of Finance Ministers, World Bank, IMF and Reserve Bank Governors is occurring in Melbourne and has met with local protests and street confrontations with police. A festive gathering og G20 protestors on Saturday night was vilently broken up by the police. One must aasume this is a payback operation for protests earlier in the day in breaching police barricades and even damaging a police riot unit vehicle.

An ambulance was called to attend several people, while about 3 were arrested. There was a high level of aggression with police actively chasing and beating people.

Search and rescue were brought in to prise off several activists who had locked-on to a car place on the road by protestors.

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