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Re: G8 thugs
Apr 01, 2009, 21:34
Thousands of people descend on a city to express their passion. A small minority come for trouble and the police present are attacked with bricks and glass bottles. Twenty-seven people are arrested.

They were Swansea FC supporters having a day out in Cardiff last year.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/26-arrested-violence-Swansea-v-Cardiff-football-matcharticle-453033-details/article.html

You probably won’t have read about it. The story certainly wasn’t top of every bulletin on every news network.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7977489.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/demonstrations-turn-violent-1659268.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5089870/G20-protests-Rioters-loot-RBS-as-demonstrations-turn-violent.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g97rsFx3dbUHPQSoLAaXQa97RGBwD979S04G0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/g20-summit-protests
http://www.smh.com.au/world/g20-protesters-strike-at-londons-heart-20090402-9k0h.html

(etc)

Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not warn the offenders that ‘violence and intimidation will not be tolerated‘.

shamelessly pinched from here: http://www.chickyog.net/2009/04/01/heliocentric/
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