Photo Gallery Stone Throwers, Middle Fingers and Burning Cars
Burning barricades: Police in Rostock hunt for rioters who ...
... set cars on fire and engaged in hours-long ...
... street battles with the thousands of police on hand in the city. The violence erupted on the margins of what were otherwise peaceful demonstrations against the G-8.
Clear gestures: The perpetrators, mostly masked ...
... lit café chairs and tables on fire and they threw ...
... stones at police they had ripped from the side walk.
Police defended themselves with canisters of tear gas and ...
... the deployment of water cannons in the aim of driving the rioters apart. Some demonstrators ...
... greeted the mass police deployment with bitter humor. "I'm part of the armed insurgency." In some cases ...
... police were able to protect themselves from attacks by individuals by using pepper spray. The rioters ...
... continued attacking police, turning the Rostock city center ...
... into a battlefield. Taking security forces on for hours ...
.. in a game of cat and mouse, demonstrators continued to find new things to attack. As evening approached, the situation began to calm down.
Eye to eye: Hundreds of police were ...
... attacked with rocks and bottles - and ...
... 146 police were injured during the street fighting, 25 seriously, not to mention ...
... others like this bloodied G-8 protester. The rioters ...
... were prepared for the tear gas that police hurled their way. This young man with gloves rinses the eyes of one injured protester. The riots were ...
... preceded by festive protests with Che Guevara flags and ...
... sweeping criticism of the G-8 countries and government leaders - from the demand for more AIDS relief, shown here, to ...
... criticism of the wars perpetrated by the G-8 countries and ...
... the protest against the exploitation of Africa, shown here in a theatrical skit.
