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The protesters braved the assembly bans on Saturday and are calling again this Sunday, Sept. 1 to a new "sit-in" at the airport. A new weekend of mistrust of the authorities and a step higher in the scale of violence on Saturday night, with barricades burned and a descent of police special forces in the subway.
With our special correspondent in Hong Kong, Stéphane Lagarde
Ripped poles, grilles on the ground and barricades left on downtown avenues, Hong Kong woke up this Sunday with the stigmata of violence the day before . And in the press as on social networks these images, these videos of great violence showing a descent of special police units in the subway.
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Video from whatsapp # HongKongPolice pic.twitter.com/mq6uYq32Z2
It was not yet midnight Saturday night, when dozens of men in black riot squads rushed down the escalators at Prince Edwards Station. With batons in hand and tear gas bombs in hand, the agents rush to the closing doors of the metro. Confusion in the corridors, the speakers ask the passengers to leave the premises. Then the doors open. Rain of blows, scream of young people sitting on the ground, arms on their heads to protect themselves ... Images shot by Hong Kong witnesses and confreres are extremely violent.
[GRAPHIC] Fuller video of the now-infamous HK Prince Edward station last night. It should be clear now @hkpoliceforce is no longer bound by law in any meaningful sense of the word.
Copyright CC 梁柏堅 Leung Pakkin @ Rice Post # HongKongProtests #antiELAB pic.twitter.com/KdOJ7SZMaR
According to the police spokesperson this Sunday, the intervention was " appropriate ". It was about protecting users who had been attacked a few minutes earlier by masked protesters. Public property allegedly damaged. Forty people were arrested in the station. While several witnesses denounce the use of the force described as " very excessive ".