Germany’s second largest city, Hamburg, hosted the G20 this week. With 6,000 delegates and 3,000 members of the global media flocking to the city, residents and the police braced themselves… and rightly so.
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Adding to the problems created by the somewhat baffling choice of a city center location, Hamburg is home to a burgeoning left wing scene, far from shy to take to the streets.
Indeed, a number of protests took place, culiminating in Thursday’s ‘Welcome to Hell’ march which ended in violent chaos, when around 8,000 leftwing radicals and anarchists descended on the location of the summit – the Congress Center – and fought with police.
Complicating the security operation further, the Congress Center is located on the edge of the ‘Schanzenviertel’, an area of the city much-loved and lived in by those involved with or sympathetic to left wing groups.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 10, 2017.
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