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Afgelopen weekend waren er flink

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Afgelopen weekend waren er flink wat rellen in Barcelona, bij een anti-WTO protestmars. Even een belangrijk stuk uit het artikel: “The police charged the crowd after a small group of masked men and women who appeared to be police agents staged a fight at the edge of the park in full view of a line of riot police standing in front of police vans. Reporters watched as the police appeared to use the staged scuffle as bait to pull protesters into it and then use it as a pretext to charge into the park. A second charge emptied the park within minutes. The masked assailants, some of them apparently wearing earphones, had gathered in groups on the fringes of the protest march as it arrived at the park after passing down a dozen blocks of the boulevard. They were wearing knapsacks and carrying sticks, but were able to walk freely past police, pull on their masks and position themselves between the edge of the crowd in the park and the police lines 25 yards away. The fight began when one man grabbed another and pulled him to the ground. Others from the same group began kicking and slugging each other. When demonstrators saw what was going on and joined the fight, the police charged into the park. The men and women involved in the scuffle walked through the police line and boarded the vans. A reporter asked one of them if they were police. He at first said yes, and then said no, before walking undeterred by police to the vans. ” Dus als ik het goed begrijp heeft de politie de vechtpartij in scene gezet door verkleed als demonstrant tussen de demonstranten te gaan lopen. Daarna hebben ze het plein schoongeveegd en mensen opgepakt. Goh….