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Quote by: G.Adams What was embarrasing, if I remember rightly (though this might have been Italy, not Swizerland) was when the police killed a protesters who was dangling by a rope tied to a bridge over a busy motorway. |
I think you're conflating Switzerland 2003 with Genoa 2001. In Genoa there was a full-scale police riot in which a perfectly peaceful protestor was murdered by cops (no exaggeration -- this is a fact borne out be subsequent investigation). This led the
Süddeutsche Zeitung -- just to take one example -- to suggest that perhaps Berlusconi's Italy wasn't fit for membership of the EU.
In Switzerland two years ago some asshole supsended himself
from a motorway bridge over a creek, the rope stretching across the motorway and thus blocking traffic. This, you might say, was suicidal behaviour. Along came the cops and very stupidly cut the rope. The dude survived the fall and the cops were duly called murderous.
That guy, in my view, belongs in the "rowdy" category of people merely wishing to make an idiotic spectacle of themselves (guess he was a member of the special kamakazi section).
Personally I think the Swiss government should have given the G8 the finger:
Y'all wanna have yore shindig across the lake there? Fine. Yore problem, not ours.