Anti-G7 protests near meeting venue

Protesters from "Stop G7 Elmau" held a demonstration on Friday in the Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, about 10 km away from the venue of the G7 summit, police said.

Police accompanied the rally and closed some roads temporarily to allow the march that passed off peacefully.

After the march, protesters gathered in front of the Marshall Centre for Security Studies, a German-US think tank, where the strategic concepts for global military interventions are planed and developed, Xinhua quoted the protester alliance as saying.

Protests against the G7 summit are scheduled for June 7-8 in and around Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and about 600 activists have set up camp nearby.

"During the day, our camp is perhaps already too full. We now have about 600 people here and 1,000 it is borderline," the spokesperson of the "Stop G7 Elmau" Benjamin Russ said.

According to Russ, many groups of protesters are to join them.

Germany, that holds the Group of Seven presidency this year, will host the two-day meeting with the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the US amid a massive police presence at Elmau Castle near the Austrian border.