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A composite picture of six handout still images made available on Nov. 27 and taken from footage of a freelance video-journalist shows mounted police riding over anti-nuclear activists protesting a nuclear waste transport on the route of the 'Castor' train near Dahlenburg, Germany, on Nov. 26. By these recordings the anti-castor campaign 'Kampagne Castor Schottern' has made serious allegations against the police on Nov. 27, claiming they had severely injuried anti-nuclear activists. Thousands of protesters assembled in and around the northern German town of Dannenberg to meet a train carrying nuclear waste to a nearby storage depot. Anti-nuclear demonstrators said 23,000 people took part in the protest against nuclear energy and the use of the storage site. Police estimated the crowd at about 8,000. The so-called Castor transport, containing a cargo of 11 sealed casks of nuclear material, was scheduled to arrive late Nov. 26, but was still en route early Nov. 27.

Mounted police ride over anti-nuclear activists in Germany

AP reports:

German police cleared a sit-in of thousands of protesters attempting to block a shipment of nuclear waste and temporarily detained 1,300 people Sunday, officials said.

Hundreds of officers started evicting protesters from the rail lines near Dannenberg in the north of the country in the morning, police spokesman Stefan Kuehm-Stoltz 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.

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