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(23 Oct 2007) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of police blocking road with bullet proof shields, forming a human wall while protesters shout at them
2. Mid of a protester climbing down a pipe
3, Protestors shouting and kicking the police shields, police holding firm
4. Mid shot of protestors with faces covered
5. Police using water cannon and tear gas to disperse protestors
6. Mid of protesters shouting and walking away carrying flags and banners
7. Zoom into water cannon vehicle, protestors throwing fire bombs at the van, water cannon spraying jet
8. Various of police walking
9. Wide of police van driving past
10. Police helicopter in sky
11. Wide shot of police in street
STORYLINE:
Police in Budapest used water cannon and tear gas to attempt to disperse several hundred far-right protesters on Monday night.
Supporters of the far-right Hungarian Self-Defence Movement were trying to reach the Hungarian State Opera, where Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany was due to give the keynote speech at a gala event commemorating the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution.
A Reuters press photographer suffered head injuries when he was hit by a bottle thrown by the protesters. Several ambulances were in the Oktogon area of Pest, a few blocks from the Opera, where the most serious clashes were taking place.
Emergency service officials said at least five people including two other photographers from Hungarian newspapers had been treated for injuries, none thought to be serious, and taken to local hospitals.
Protesters estimated by police to number as many 1,500 pelted police in riot gear with Molotov cocktails, bottles, rocks, and cans and also overturned several cars to form a barricade.
The gala event in the Opera began as scheduled and Gyurcsany was holding his speech while the clashes took place nearby.
Police had banned a 1-kilometre march planned by the Hungarian Self-Defence Movement from a rally they held on Szabadsag ter (Freedom
Square) to the Opera, but hundreds of protesters attempted to walk the route anyway.
"We can either wait until 2010 or take our own fate in our hands," an unidentified member of the far-right group told the crowd before they headed
toward the Opera.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in mid-2010.
Police sealed off several blocks around the Opera and residents of the area were allowed in only after their ID was checked.
Some 120 commemorative and protest events were scheduled to be held in the Hungarian capital between Sunday and Tuesday, the official anniversary of the start of 1956 uprising.
Hundreds were injured during a police crackdown on similar protests around this time last year.
Hungary has been in a state of political upheaval since last September, when state radio broadcast parts of a secret speech by Gyurcsany in which he acknowledged lying about the economy to win the April 2006 parliamentary elections.
Since then, Gyurcsany's popularity has dwindled amid economic austerity measures introduced to cut Hungary's state budget deficit, the largest in the European Union in the past few years.
According to the latest polls, support for Fidesz, the main centre-right opposition party, stands at around 40 percent, while the Socialists are at 20
percent, with about 75 percent of voters saying the country is headed in the wrong direction.
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