Riot police clash with anti-G8 protesters in London
Written by Albert Guard
Riot police clashed with anti-capitalist protesters in running confrontations through the streets of central London on Tuesday and arrested 32 people as activists targeted some of the world ' s biggest companies before next week ' s G8 summit.
About 100 protesters gathered outside oil company BP Plc ' s headquarters, while others chanted " war criminals " at the office of U. S. defence company Lockheed Martin Corp.
Police used chainsaws to break into a four-storey block in the Soho district where the StopG8 protest group had been staying before a " Carnival Against Capitalism " to coincide with the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland.
Aerial footage showed a man on the building ' s flat roof confront three police officers and charge towards the edge before being wrestled to the ground.
Several more police, some wearing abseiling ropes, rushed over to restrain him, inches from the roof ' s unprotected edge. More officers carried away the man, who appeared to have a bloody face.
The roof-top drama came as other protesters- who had threatened to target hedge funds, banks and multinationals- played cat and mouse with riot police through some of London ' s most fashionable streets.
" The G8 is just a front for the corporatocracy, for the kleptocrats. It is about making them more money and dividing up the world so they can all get richer," said a protester at Piccadilly Circus
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