Hundreds were arrested and police “kettled” several hundred more before sending coaches into the pen, filling them up and driving away.
Henri Purje, who was in Copenhagen with Attac, a group opposed to international free trade, was standing in front of the group that was penned in and taken away by police. “I was in the last line of people before the police suddenly moved in for no obvious reason. It seemed as if they just wanted to take out a bunch of random people. No one was being violent, I didn’t see anyone doing anything apart from singing and chanting and marching. Everything had been really peaceful,” Purje said.
A British demonstrator, Georgy Forshall, told the Observer: “Two of my friends are in there. The police said demonstrators had been throwing stones, but my friends were in a cow costume, they wouldn’t have been able to throw stones.”
Source/Full Story: The Observer
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