The G7 summit continues today in Germany. As with each edition, the meeting of representatives of the most industrialized is accompanied by demonstrations by opponents and critical organizations. This mobilization was weaker this year. In the Bavarian Alps, the demonstrators are kept away. Only exception this morning, a group of fifty people who will be able to demonstrate briefly near the castle of Elmau which houses the meeting.
With our special correspondent in Munich, Pascal Thibault
As seven years ago, during the previous G7 summit in Elmaua long judicial soap opera opposed the demonstrators of the meeting to the authorities. We quarreled over the installation of public toilets or the presence of dogs accompanying the demonstrators. Again, the latter wished not to be limited to a camp about fifteen kilometers from the castle of Elmau and to actions inaudible to the greats of this world.
Today different groups will cycle or walk to the hotel who is hosting the meeting but will be kept at a safe distance by the police.
Only exception, about fifty demonstrators who under good escort will be able to approach 500 meters from the castle of Elmau for a brief demonstration of half an hour: “ Each speaker has two minutes, a quarter of an hour in totalexplains its organizer Franz Haslbeck. This is our demonstration. Afterwards, we are at the disposal of the press. We therefore hope that we will be heard even if we are in the middle of nowhere. »
If journalists will be able to accompany the demonstrators or find them for those who will be in the nearby briefing center, a meeting with the organizers of the summit is not planned.
The demonstrators denounce a limitation of their right of expression and to demonstrate. The mobilization of opponents of the summit was noticeably less important than expected This year. The very strict rules imposed on them and the presence of 18,000 police officers are seen as disproportionate.
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