ROSTOCK (AFP) - More than 140 police were injured in violent clashes with Molotov cocktail-throwing protestors here on Saturday at a demonstration ahead of next week's G8 summit.
Riots broke out as tens of thousands of people marched through this northeastern German port, 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm, where the leaders of the world's richest nations will begin a three-day meeting on Wednesday.
Several hundred demonstrators from a group of about 2,000 wearing black masks and hoods hurled Molotov cocktails, stones and bottles at police and several cars were set on fire or overturned.