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German photo agency raided prior to G8 meetings
A long fence surrounding a broad radius of the meeting area at Ostseebad Heiligendamm should ensure that demonstrators – violent or peaceful - cannot disrupt the meeting of the 8 leading industrial nations (G8) in Germany. Nevertheless the German National Administration fears terrorist attacks by anti globalization activists. In a large scale raid in Berlin-Kreuzberg and the Hamburg area of Schanzenviertel, offices and private establishments were searched and documents and hard disks were confiscated. The parties involved claim that the German National Police are trying to criminalize all protest actions against the G8-meeting before they actually transpire.
One of the targets of the raid was also the Umbruch-Bildarchiv. The archive documents pictures and videos on the topics of independence, antifascism, feminist movements, left wing demonstrations, anti-nuclear power, squatters, etc. Stefan Hartmann, VISUELL
Web: www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de
Translation from German courtesy of dtnyc383
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