11-06-2013, 02:41 PM
Provocateurs?
There is a suspicion that some of those who threw petrol bombs today could have been police provocateurs, according to Nick Hobbs a British concert promoter who lives close to Taksim Square.Speaking to the Guardian after witnessing protesters being teargassed this morning, he said:
My guess is they've used this excuse of cleaning up the Ataturk cultural centre and monument in the middle of Taksim as an excuse to test what happens if they clean the whole square.
The main issue is whether the people who threw the molotov cocktails this morning were provocateurs or demonstrators of some kind. The park people completely disown that kind of violence. They don't want to anything to do with it and try to stop it.
The social networking sites are saying they were police provocateurs, but who knows.
Some of the rioters, or whatever they were, were chased by teargas.
I just visited my friend in hospital because she got hit by a teargas canister last week. I saw a policeman being bought into hospital with a head injury.
The main issue is whether the people who threw the molotov cocktails this morning were provocateurs or demonstrators of some kind. The park people completely disown that kind of violence. They don't want to anything to do with it and try to stop it.
The social networking sites are saying they were police provocateurs, but who knows.
Some of the rioters, or whatever they were, were chased by teargas.
I just visited my friend in hospital because she got hit by a teargas canister last week. I saw a policeman being bought into hospital with a head injury.
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A petrol bomb is thrown at riot police in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday. Photograph: OSMAN ORSAL/REUTERShttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun...a7376c4a33
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