Blows, injuries and damage. So last night ended the regional elections in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany, in which the Greens won the presidency for the first time one of the 'Länder' or German states. After the victory at the polls, the party official at the headquarters of the Green, located in a suburb of Stuttgart, ended at 22.00 hours, but continued after the protest camp that takes months to set limits with real estate project 'Stuttgart 21': the construction of a station as it prepares to host a high-speed line Paris-Munich and includes the felling of trees survived the Second World War.
Here there was a festive and spontaneous concentration of several thousand people who were summoned each other through Twitter and SMS to what they called the 'Mappschiedsparty', a pun that comes to be translated as "farewell party Mappus ', referring to the defeated Democrat president Stefan Mappus.
Around midnight, the celebration degenerated into rioting when several masked men broke down the fences emboldened that encircle the urban project area, causing several damages in the works. When police arrived, some 500 people had already illegally accessed the site. The agents carried out an eviction with batons and there were several skirmishes between youths and riot, which ended with two policemen and a woman injured.
Between shouts of "We shot down Mappus, tear down the fence now," manifestation of the party, ended in turmoil and, as reported by a spokesman for police in the early hours of the morning, had to be deployed a special of 200 agents protect private property and public furniture. Dozens of protesters were arrested but all were released within hours.
Images reminiscent of the harsh police response in the first demonstrations against the project 'Stuttgart 21', violence against citizens who have weighed in the electorate and that is part of the motivation of the protest vote has received the CDU Angela Merkel in regional elections on Sunday. 
Here there was a festive and spontaneous concentration of several thousand people who were summoned each other through Twitter and SMS to what they called the 'Mappschiedsparty', a pun that comes to be translated as "farewell party Mappus ', referring to the defeated Democrat president Stefan Mappus.
Around midnight, the celebration degenerated into rioting when several masked men broke down the fences emboldened that encircle the urban project area, causing several damages in the works. When police arrived, some 500 people had already illegally accessed the site. The agents carried out an eviction with batons and there were several skirmishes between youths and riot, which ended with two policemen and a woman injured.
Between shouts of "We shot down Mappus, tear down the fence now," manifestation of the party, ended in turmoil and, as reported by a spokesman for police in the early hours of the morning, had to be deployed a special of 200 agents protect private property and public furniture. Dozens of protesters were arrested but all were released within hours.
Images reminiscent of the harsh police response in the first demonstrations against the project 'Stuttgart 21', violence against citizens who have weighed in the electorate and that is part of the motivation of the protest vote has received the CDU Angela Merkel in regional elections on Sunday.
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