Before the G7 summit started in Biarritz, attracted several Thousand protesters peacefully through the streets of Hendaye – a safe distance away from the summit venue. Bernd Riegert reports.
“Who actually came up with the strange idea to traipse over lunch at 30 degrees through the city,” asks an older Spanish woman, the zufächelt with a leaflet of the air. It has set itself to half of the demonstration route in the shade. The Asphalt was hot you just have to. Of course, you had to demonstrate against the “madness of the G7,” she says mockingly with a smile, but that was also after sunset. She is with a Gay and lesbian arrived group from the Basque country and is an advocate for women’s rights, against social injustice in the world and for the salvation of the rain forest. The police estimates that about 9000 people walked through the midday heat. The organizers speak of 15,000. The collection places were, however, filled only half of it and the protest March is only a few hundred meters long.
Yellow vest, protective hat: protester Antoine wants to get rid of host Macron
Yellow West against Macron
“Macron is a hypocrite,” railed Antoine from Hendaye. He wears the typical yellow traffic safety vest of the protest movement against the liberal French President, Emmanuel Macron, the state guest is located 28 kilometres of the coast to the North up in Biarritz. “He talks a lot of climate protection and is doing in France. He’s talking about takes about inequality in the world, but he can’t overcome it in France once.” Antoine makes a defensive movement of the hand. With sun hat, sunglasses, a red Flag of the trade Union, the CGT, and a T-Shirt with Communist slogans, he draws since last September against Macron with the yellow West by France. The whole of the G7 summit he considers to be a waste of money. According to the Elysee Palace this summit in Biarritz, it costs “only” 36 million euros, considerably less than comparable events in Japan or Germany.
A large part of the money goes to the additional security. Some of the dozens of police officers to track in black uniforms with stab-resistant vests in the shadow standing in the demonstration. You are just a few of the approximately 13,000 officials, who should have France around the peak in use. In Hendaye, it remains peaceful. Only from time to time to cry, a police somewhere Irene.
Skirmishes at the edge of the tent camp: 17 people were arrested on Friday
Autonomous against all
While you demonstrate, don’t want to tell me, two young men with a North German tongue. You wear black T-Shirts and belong to a larger group, which carries a small black Flag with a A anarchy in itself. No, you want to answer journalists ‘ questions. You seem to be very suspicious, because the night before in a tent camp, in which the “Black Block” of Autonomous to spend the night, the police showed up. They arrested 17 people, after militant demonstrators had fired fireworks at the police. Four police officers were injured slightly.
On Sunday will be at the venue in Bayonne, demonstrated. Then the activists of the Portraits of the French President, icon want to depend on that they have stolen previously, in the offices in France. In the hermetically sealed Biarritz even demonstrations and gatherings are prohibited. Nevertheless, there are rumors that both the Autonomous and violent group in the “red Zone” want to move in Biarritz. The police prevent and be prepared for everything, said the French Minister of the interior, Christophe Castaner, during a visit in Biarritz a few days ago.
Heat resistant: Basque nationalists in traditional fur-West at 30 degrees in the shade
Fast court is waiting for customers
Is prepared for the judiciary. In Bayonne, near Biarritz, the local court with additional 17 prosecutors and cells for up to 300 people. Violent protesters should be immediately fast-track procedure tried. Three Germans who should have transported in their vehicles, items of equipment of the “Black block”, are already sitting in detention. The vast majority of the protesters wanted to peacefully Express their opinions, but on the perpetrators of violence to have no influence, says a spokeswoman for the human rights organization Oxfam, in Hendaye, as the March heat dissolves in the scorching noon slowly. “The should go to the beautiful beach,” says the older Spanish protester, the power to create the heat. It shows in the direction of the sea, which is only a few hundred metres away and fans herself a little air.
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