Anti-G8 protesters clash with police in Scotland
Posted on: Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 07:17 CDT
GLENEAGLES, Scotland (Reuters) - Anti-G8 protesters clashedwith police on Wednesday as the heads of the Group of Eightindustrialized nations prepared to meet at the heavilyfortified Gleneagles golfing resort near Edinburgh.
"There have been clashes with the protesters as theystarted to leave their camp in Stirling. Objects were thrown atpolice. There have been two arrests but no reported injuries,"a police spokeswoman told Reuters.
Police closed several roads in the area to the south ofGleneagles including parts of the main north-south highway.
Demonstrators disrupted morning rush-hour traffic on one ofScotland's busiest roads, dragging branches across bothcarriageways of the motorway.
Some protesters were dressed as clowns, some in camouflagegear, blowing whistles and beating drums and chanting anti-G8slogans.
About 20 demonstrators sat down across the main A9motorway, about 13 km (8 miles) south of Gleneagles, blockingthe road for several minutes until police arrived to drag themoff the road.
Thousands of anti-war, anti-globalization andanti-capitalist demonstrators are planning to blockade the G8summit, accusing the group of the world's richest nations offailing the poor.
Source: REUTERS
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