Police Crackdown on German Nuclear Waste Train Protests

Submitted 8 months ago by Toby Shuster
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From AFP --Environmentalists trying to block a train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from western France to a dump in Germany were beat by police in the largest and most violent anti-nuclear protests since 2001 in Germany. Activists set fire to barricades on the tracks in the north of the country, which police extinguished with water cannon.

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