WORLD : Leftists Stone Berlin Police
Hundreds of leftist radicals hurled rocks from rooftops and fired flare guns at riot police today, turning a Berlin squatters’ commune into a tear-gas-choked battle zone.
Radicals barricaded one end of the street with debris and battled with police for more than two hours. Armored trucks equipped with water cannons drenched the long row of tenements in eastern Berlin.
At least 12 people were arrested but no injury figures were immediately available, a Berlin police spokesman said.
Clouds of tear gas hung over the narrow Mainzer Street, where radicals have occupied at least 12 abandoned buildings during the last few months.
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