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In Hong Kong, the demonstrations did not stop at the weekend again: yesterday, Monday, August 12, thousands of protesters invaded the airport to protest the police violence, particularly to respond to the eye injury. a girl Sunday night; she was allegedly shot by the police. A tide of protesters surrounded the airport around 1 pm, resulting in the cancellation of all flights of the day.
With our special correspondent in Hong Kong, Christophe Paget
This Tuesday, August 13 still, more than 300 flights had to be canceled, even if the demonstrators were almost all left around 1am. Some spoke of coming back, others explained that they had to go back to work. Earlier in the day the Hong Kong police gave a press conference to explain the weekend of violence : no, there is no evidence that the girl was injured by the police, it was perhaps a shot protesters; yes, pictures showing police slipping banned items into a protestor's bag to stop him will be analyzed by the police.
Moreover, the tear gas whose expiry date is exceeded, denounced by the demonstrators, will no longer be used, but in any case they are not toxic, said Deputy Commissioner Tang Ping-Keung. Who claimed that the police had respected the law by using them in a metro station on Sunday, because according to him it was a semi-open space and not closed.
A little earlier, the police had shown the press its new trucks equipped with water cannons. Amnesty International has called for the utmost caution in their use, and recalled the death of a protester in South Korea four years ago. " Violence, whether its use or its apology, will push Hong Kong on a path without return, " said this morning Carrie Lam, with tears in her eyes. Violence that comes, according to the head of the Hong Kong executive, protesters.