Jun 4, 2007, 10:55 GMT
Rostock, Germany - Hundreds of protesters who accuse the G8 nations of racism briefly blockaded an immigration-agency office in the German city of Rostock on Monday.
Police, who had met with protest coordinators in advance, described the event as peaceful, saying about 1,000 people formed a cordon for a while around an office which issues residence permits to aliens.
The city, 25 kilometres north-east of the Heilegendamm venue for the June 6-8 summit, was being cleaned up Monday after an anti-G8 riot on Saturday which injured nearly 1,000 police and protesters.
Part of the anti-G8 movement regards immigration laws as racist and oppressive because visa rules prevent poor people from moving to Germany to live. The crowd Monday called for 'global freedom of migration.'
The crowd also demonstrated outside a city supermarket to protest at multinational corporations.
In Berlin, interior ministry spokesman Stefan Kaller said that among the violent demonstrators arrested Saturday, 15 to 20 per cent had come from outside Germany.
He denied spot-checks at German frontiers and airports had been too lax. Germany normally has no passport checks on arrivals from 14 European nations, but travellers have had to have their identity documents ready since late May.
Kaller said that had enabled border police to check 500,000 arrivals, denying entry to 85 persons.
Protest groups had earlier advertised the Saturday rally throughout Europe as the main riposte to the club of seven western nations and Russia, which are to discuss economic, climate-change and other policies this week.
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