Monday, October 15, 2012

Protesters shout slogans from inside Nigerian embassy in Berlin

Asylum seekers of Nigerian extraction in Germany were stunned on Monday as German police stormed the embassy premises in Berlin to arrest protesters.

Protesters were protesting against Nigeria's Government collaboration with German officials in deporting them.
 
The protesters shouted slogans from inside the Nigerian embassy. Police detained 14 protesters who briefly occupied the Nigerian embassy, a police spokesman reported on Monday.

"We protest against the Nigerian embassy's involvement in the deportation of refugees to countries that are not safe." one of the protesters said.

All of the detained men were asylum seekers, a representative of the refugees said





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