Jul 11, 2017 04:28 AM
What is the likely fallout from the G20 violence?
http://m.dw.com/en/after-g20-a-look-at-l...romDesktop
EXCERPT: The recent violence in Hamburg, some of which was perpetrated by people who traveled there from across Europe, has thrown the spotlight on the extreme Left. DW looks at the basics of a very complex phenomenon. [...] The most immediate effect is that people in Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, are far more sensitized to the potential for radical left-wing violence than they were before July 7. Politicians from both of Germany's biggest parties, the conservatives and the Social Democrats, have called for the creation of a European-wide list of violent left-wing extremists. But Europol says that the mechanism for compiling such a list already exists. [...]
[...] There is a bewildering variety of far-left groups operating in Europe, but experts tend to distinguish broadly between three categories: communists who adhere to the teachings of Marx and Lenin, anarchists, and so-called "autonomous" radicals who tend to be connected with squats like the Rote Flora in Hamburg or Copenhagen's famous Christiana. Germany's Interior Ministry says that the number of communists is decreasing slightly while the other two groups are growing. The Ministry also holds "autonomous" radicals responsible for the majority of the violence.
[...] What unites left-wing radicals, according to the German Interior Ministry, is "the rejection of the capitalist system as a whole." The Ministry adds that far-left radicals define capitalism not just as an economic system, narrowly understood, but as a whole complex of things including social inequity, the "destruction" of living space in cities, war, right-wing extremism, racism and environmental destruction....
Close to 500 police injured after three days of rioting in Hamburg
https://www.thelocal.de/20170710/g20-num...in-hamburg
EXCERPT: Nearly 500 police officers were injured in clashes with protesters during the G20 summit, officials said Sunday, after fresh riots broke out overnight. Violence continued to rage after G20 leaders returned home Saturday, with far-left protesters setting fire to a number of vehicles into the early morning hours, police said....
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http://m.dw.com/en/after-g20-a-look-at-l...romDesktop
EXCERPT: The recent violence in Hamburg, some of which was perpetrated by people who traveled there from across Europe, has thrown the spotlight on the extreme Left. DW looks at the basics of a very complex phenomenon. [...] The most immediate effect is that people in Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, are far more sensitized to the potential for radical left-wing violence than they were before July 7. Politicians from both of Germany's biggest parties, the conservatives and the Social Democrats, have called for the creation of a European-wide list of violent left-wing extremists. But Europol says that the mechanism for compiling such a list already exists. [...]
[...] There is a bewildering variety of far-left groups operating in Europe, but experts tend to distinguish broadly between three categories: communists who adhere to the teachings of Marx and Lenin, anarchists, and so-called "autonomous" radicals who tend to be connected with squats like the Rote Flora in Hamburg or Copenhagen's famous Christiana. Germany's Interior Ministry says that the number of communists is decreasing slightly while the other two groups are growing. The Ministry also holds "autonomous" radicals responsible for the majority of the violence.
[...] What unites left-wing radicals, according to the German Interior Ministry, is "the rejection of the capitalist system as a whole." The Ministry adds that far-left radicals define capitalism not just as an economic system, narrowly understood, but as a whole complex of things including social inequity, the "destruction" of living space in cities, war, right-wing extremism, racism and environmental destruction....
Close to 500 police injured after three days of rioting in Hamburg
https://www.thelocal.de/20170710/g20-num...in-hamburg
EXCERPT: Nearly 500 police officers were injured in clashes with protesters during the G20 summit, officials said Sunday, after fresh riots broke out overnight. Violence continued to rage after G20 leaders returned home Saturday, with far-left protesters setting fire to a number of vehicles into the early morning hours, police said....
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