Tensions flared in Geneva as authorities moved to isolate demonstrators, raising concerns about detentions, access to food and water, and heavy handed policing.<\/p>\n
In Geneva, after protests against the G7 summit, three participants were arrested, with more than twenty people detained in total during Sunday demonstrations.<\/p>\n
According to local sources, the police in the evening carried out an operation to isolate the demonstrators, triggering outrage among the No G7 coalition.<\/p>\n
Timeline of events and public reaction<\/p>\n
\u201c28 people \u2013 nine women and 19 men \u2013 were detained, including three who were temporarily detained,\u201d according to a preliminary RTS report.<\/p>\n
\u2013 RTS<\/p>\n
A more precise information about those detained is expected in the second half of the day, RTS reports citing preliminary data.<\/p>\n
The damage from the clashes proved relatively minor given the scale of the protests: broken windows, destroyed bus stops, and a car set on fire.<\/p>\n
On the evening of June 14, police established a cordon between Quai Wilson and Avenue de France, detaining almost 300 people for several hours; after checking their documents they were released, the last of them on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The No G7 coalition condemned the lack of water and food for the detainees, called the operation too harsh, and drew attention to numerous provocations and the use of tear gas at the end of the demonstration.<\/p>\n
According to police, about 20,000 people joined the demonstration, while No G7 estimates about 30,000; about 600 Black Bloc activists infiltrated the march and vandalized property.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland reported that hundreds of people were detained overnight, many of whom did not participate in the disturbances and were not suspected of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
According to police, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Geneva on June 14 to express their discontent with the G7 summit, which was to be held in neighboring France.<\/p>\n
The situation underscores the tension between protesters and law enforcement during an international gathering and reflects varying reactions among local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions flared in Geneva as authorities moved to isolate demonstrators, raising concerns about detentions, access to food and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[41979,65,42880,43539,1202,42884,43540,43541],"class_list":["post-85303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-g7-summit","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-protests","tag-geneva-protests-g7-summit-police-detentions-no-g7-coalition-protest-clashes","tag-news","tag-no-g7-coalition","tag-police-detentions","tag-protest-clashes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116760022070284014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}