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(2 Apr 2009) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of protesters standing behind makeshift barrier on road 2. Protesters reinforcing makeshift barrier 3. Zoom-in to tear gas and protesters, demonstrators start to retreat 4. Police charge makeshift barrier and knock it over 5. Arrested protesters sitting on street encircled by police 6. Arrested protester with bloodied head 7. Arrested protesters sitting on road next to police van 8. Tear gas fired at rock-throwing protesters 9. Police firing tear gas 10. Pan from police to tear gas canisters landing amid protesters 11. Close up injured Germany's Freiburg Press photographer Sebastian Stahler, zoom out to Stahler talking to woman 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sebastian Stahler, Injured Photographer, Germany's Freiburg Press: "Somebody aimed at me and shot and hit me straight there. And we were waving hands, saying that we are journalists, but they shot anyway." 13. Helicopter flying overhead ++EVENING SHOTS++ 14. Various of protesters throwing stones, tear gas 15. Police walking towards protesters 16. Fire behind protesters' knocked down barrier 17. Police approaching protesters 18. Police firing tear gas 19. Police firing tear gas, protester throwing objects at police 20. Police firing tear gas 21. Various of tear gas being fired at protesters 22. Police removing barriers 23. Various of police grouped, facing protesters 24. Policeman firing tear gas 25. Tilt down of tear gas being fired by police STORYLINE Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to beat back a crowd of several hundred anti-NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) protesters in Strasbourg on Thursday as the city in eastern France, host of the alliance's 60th anniversary summit, readied for the arrival of world leaders. Police lobbed hundreds of tear gas canisters during clashes between about 40 riot police and some 200 masked protesters in the neighbourhood of Neuhoff, in the southern part of the city near the German border. The masked protesters had been among a crowd of about 800 demonstrators when they broke away and repeatedly pelted officers with rocks and bottles. A German photographer from the Freiburg Press, Sebastian Stahler, was lightly injured on the leg, but there were no other immediate reports of injuries. Police said a dozen protesters were arrested. At one point, protesters set fire in the middle of a street to building materials they had scooped up from a nearby construction site. By late Thursday, calm had returned to Strasbourg, but two more full days of planned protests lie ahead. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have descended on Strasbourg and two southwest German towns to protest the cross-border summit of members of the NATO, which begins on Friday. In Strasbourg, many shops and small businesses have shut down during the summit. Twenty-eight world leaders will attend the two-day summit, including President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In a bid to prevent violence, France has temporarily reinstated border controls with its immediate neighbours for the meeting. German authorities estimate that up to 25-thousand protesters will take part in several demonstrations in the German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl, while France's interior minister has suggested 30-thousand to 40-thousand could show up in Strasbourg, where a camp has been set up to house demonstrators. German and French police have said two-thousand to three-thousand members of the violence-prone "black block" - so-called for the black clothes and hoods they wear - were expected. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
