Clashes between German security forces and anti-nuclear protesters have left at least 20 officers injured, ahead of the arrival of a shipment of nuclear waste in northern Germany.
The police were injured in the city of Dannenberg, when hundreds of protesters threw stones and fireworks at them, The Sacramento Bee reported.
Earlier on Thursday, protests in Metzingen turned violent as police officers used water cannon to disperse hundreds of demonstrators waiting for the arrival of the train. No protester casualties were reported.
During the past days, thousands have been gathering in protest against the arrival of a train carrying radioactive nuclear waste from France.
The train carrying nuclear waste left Areva's nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in Normandy, northwest of France, on Wednesday, with more than an hour's delay due to clashes between the police and hundreds of anti-nuclear French activists.
French authorities stopped the train in Remilly, short of the border, reportedly to avoid mass protests, saying the train would resume its journey in “two hours or two days.”
The train is the first such shipment to Germany since Berlin decided to shut all its nuclear plants by 2022, following the devastating March earthquake in Japan, which sparked a nuclear crisis in the Asian country.
The train was the last of 12 shipments of reprocessed German nuclear waste sent from France in recent years as the contract between the French and German sides has expired and will not be renewed.
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