Like a Bond movie scene

IT was like a scene from a James Bond movie at times with protesters scaling cliff sides, racing motorboats across the choppy waters of Lake Garda and firing ear piercing flares into the blue sky.

But the group of 400 protesters that turned up at the meeting of EU Foreign Ministers turned the security aspects of the picturesque town of Riva del Garda to their advantage.

They blockaded the two roads leading into the two by strewing them with pieces of plastic and broken up computers, causing tail-backs for kilometres in the heavily tourist area.