Photo: DPAThe violence that has marred the G20 summit since Thursday escalated even further late on Friday evening, with rioters smashing up and plundering shops in the left-wing Schanzenviertel neighbourhood. Special forces, armed with machine guns, were even called to the scene. The G20 summit of leaders of 20 of the world's biggest economies started on Friday in Hamburg. Photographs from the neighbourhood also show special forces at the scene carrying semi-automatic guns. Spiegel reports that the special forces were brought in as the police feared that rioters had armed themselves with Molotov cocktails, slingshots and other projectiles.

Source: The Local July 08, 2017 07:40 UTC