Photo: DPAA ten minute walk from Germany's heavily-guarded G20 summit venue in the port city of Hamburg lies the graffiti-covered centre of the leftwing protest movement vowing to disrupt it. reads a banner atop the Rote Flora, a former vacant theatre that was occupied by squatters in 1989 in the midst of demonstrations and street battles. 'Combative message'"Welcome to hell" is the eye-catching motto of one of the rallies seen as likely to escalate, organised for July 6th by veteran Rote Flora activist Andreas Blechschmidt. Police will need to secure road convoys from the airport to the city centre, including the US motorcade with its scores of vehicles. Germany says it wants to signal transparency at a time when politicians are accused of hiding away, and host the meeting in a port city that prides itself as the country's "gateway to the world".

Source: The Local June 30, 2017 08:26 UTC