Protests in Vancouver - they are against the Olympics! Bashny.Net

While at the stadium "BBC Place," in Vancouver held the opening ceremony of the Games, the city riots broke out. In downtown Vancouver a few protesters, chanting slogans against the Olympics, the Olympic flag defiantly burned.

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1) It all started on Friday when a few thousand anti-globalization activists took to the streets of Vancouver and the protest march reached the stadium, which at that time held the opening of the XXI Olympic Winter Games. Protesters gathered to express their dissatisfaction with the activities of the International Olympic Committee.





2) February 13, demonstrators moved on to more action. In downtown Vancouver about 200 anti-globalization began to be glass and shop windows in shops, paint cans of cars, passers-bullying.



3) Previously reported that safety during the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver will follow 15,000 police, soldiers and private security guards. Security measures will cost the Canadian government of $ 850 million.



4) Some police came to the site of the riots on bicycles.



5) After the demonstrators stormed the police squads, the latter began to mass arrests.



6) The police dragged the girl with a gas mask during demonstrations in downtown Vancouver.



7) A female police officer in Vancouver photographing detainees.



8) Police on the background of demonstrators during a protest in downtown Vancouver.



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10) One of the demonstrators holding a partially burned the flag of Canada. The protest was attended by radical youth, adults and the elderly.



11) demonstrators march on a street in downtown Vancouver to start riots.



12) Police in full gear for crowd control monitors the protesters.



13) burned the Canadian flag.



14) divided the police cordon outside. During clashes with police injured several members of law enforcement and arrested dozens of demonstrators.



15) The demonstrators overturned street racks for newspapers with advertising brokers forex (forex). Also, the demonstrators broke windows and shop windows. In the coming days, the protesters promise to hold new protests, the consequences of which can be much more serious than broken windows and wounded police officers and arrested protesters.



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