15 German Police Officers Injured Dispersing Kurdish Rally in Dusseldorf
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Police deployed pepper spray and water cannons against a crowd of Kurdish demonstrators in the western German city of Dusseldorf after they refused to lay down portraits of a jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), which is outlawed in Germany, RT reports.
Fifteen officers and at least three demonstrators were injured in the scuffles that ensued after the police moved to disperse a rally, Spiegel reports, citing police.
According to police estimates, some 6,000 Kurdish activists took to the city streets on Saturday to demand the release of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, which is considered a terrorist entity in Turkey, Germany and elsewhere in the EU, as well as in the US. Displaying its symbols, as well as images of its leader, is prohibited, but many protesters were still carrying banners and placards featuring Ocalan.
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