{"article":{"id":22654,"heading":"Poetic justice for undercover piggys","author":"!","created":"2002-11-24 17:51:14","modified":"2002-11-24 17:51:14","last_modified":"Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:51:14","article":"<p>BERLIN, Nov 22 (Reuters) - German police mistakenly beat up their own undercover detectives when a demonstration turned violent in the northern city of Hamburg.  <br>  <br> Police were monitoring a rally of some 3,000 people protesting against the demolition of illegal squatters' homes when violence broke out late last Saturday evening.  <br>  <br> Several hundred helmet-clad riot police then clashed with the protesters, including plain-clothes officers who had been shoved into the centre of the crowd.  <br>  <br> Local political leaders from the Hamburg Social Democrats investigating the matter said the officers tried to identify themselves with a password.  <br>  <br> But communication efforts failed and riot police beat their colleagues with batons, leaving two with head injuries. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"www.prague.indymedia.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"instant karma-just add violence","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/11\/22654.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}