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Germany's G20 street chaos puts political heat on Merkel

One police union blamed German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hamburg mayor Olaf Scholz for allowing the chaos, which left over 200 police officers and as yet unknown numbers of protesters injured, and for choosing the city in the first place.

08.07.2017

(AFP) - Raging street battles that marred Germany's G20 summit have sparked a political fight over how Hamburg could descend into "mob rule" and why Chancellor Angela Merkel chose a hotbed of leftist militancy as the venue.

Germany's top-selling Bild daily was withering in its condemnation of the chaos that saw far-left and anarchist radicals torch rows of cars, loot shops and hurl rocks and bottles from burning barricades at riot police.