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Tuesday, 1 May, 2001, 12:03 GMT 13:03 UK
May Day clashes in Berlin
![]() Demonstrations started in the early hours in Berlin
By Rob Broomby in Berlin
Riot police in Berlin have been in action after anti-capitalist and anarchist demonstrators began their protests sooner than expected. They have held a May Day protest in Berlin every year since 1987, and it has always been marred by violence.
The trouble began in the early hours of the morning in two separate locations in former East Berlin, one on the site of the Berlin Wall itself. Under cover of darkness, roads were blocked and simple barricades were erected. Riot control police were pelted with rocks and bottles and fires were started illuminating the night sky for miles around. Far-right march Water cannons and armoured cars have been in action, and there were running battles with the police.
The Berlin authorities had sought a ban on both the anti-capitalist anarchist protest and that of the far-right National Democratic Party, the NPD. But the courts overturned the ban on the far-right, and several hundred NPD supporters, chanting "jobs for German workers", have been holding a noisy but so far peaceful protest in east Berlin. Local residents have turned out to oppose the flag-waving marchers, mostly skinheads, with equal passion.
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