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Protesters clash with police during anti-nuclear demos

(27 Nov 2011) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of group of "Black Block" protesters throwing fireworks towards police 2. More of fireworks flying towards police 3. Pan of protesters walking towards police 4. Wide of protester throwing paint onto police armoured vehicle 5. Mid of protesters running 6. Wide of protesters, smoke in the background 7. Wide of water cannon being used; demonstrator hiding behind tree, then throws a stone STORYLINE German police on Sunday clashed with black-clad protesters in the woods near a rail line where a train carrying nuclear waste was expected to pass. Protesters were seen hurling fireworks, stones and paint at police, who responded with water cannon and repeated charges. Several officers were injured and at least 10 people detained during the clashes near Harlingen, a police spokesman said. Activists said some 150 people were injured as police dispersed some protests with tear gas and batons over the weekend, the German news agency dapd reported. German police also cleared a sit-in of thousands of protesters attempting to block the nuclear waste shipment and temporarily detained 1,300 people on Sunday, officials said. Hundreds of officers started evicting protesters from the rail lines near Dannenberg in the north of the country in the morning, a police spokesman said. Those who refused to leave were detained on site for several hours, but all were eventually released by late afternoon. Only those who refused to divulge their identity to police were brought before judges. Police put the number of protesters at 3,500 while protest organisers said 5,000 people had occupied the tracks that will be used to transport a nuclear waste shipment reprocessed in France and now on its way to a storage site near the northern town of Gorleben. Activists say the waste containers, and the temporary storage facility near Gorleben, are not safe. The train carrying the shipment of 11 containers of nuclear waste reprocessed at France's La Hague facility entered western Germany on Friday after delays in France, where activists damaged railway tracks in an attempt to halt the cargo. The shipment paused overnight south of Hamburg and is now expected to reach its destination with considerable delay on Monday. About 20-thousand German police officers are on hand to secure the cargo. A group of four activists used a pyramid-shaped concrete structure to attach themselves to the tracks near Dannenberg, requiring a diligent dismantling operation that took the entire day and was still under way Sunday night, the police spokesman said. Around 800 people gathered around the activists on the tracks, and a sit-in of several hundred protesters also popped up near the Gorleben facility. Police estimated 800 people took part there, while activists said about 1,000 had gathered. Nuclear energy has been unpopular in Germany since fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine drifted over the country. The annual shipment from France has been a traditional focal point for protesters. This is the first shipment, however, since Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to speed up shutting down all of Germany's nuclear plants, with the last one scheduled to go offline by 2022, following safety questions raised after the disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan. But Germany - as most other nations using atomic power - has not yet decided where nuclear waste, which remains radioactive for thousands of years, should be stored permanently. 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...