Anti-Nato protestors hurl petrol bombs at police

Police clashed with demonstrators in Strasbourg where the Nato summit is under way.

Several hundred protesters in eastern Strasbourg, France, hurled Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles as they tried to push their way into the city’s centre, a reporter on the scene said.

Some 100 riot police bearing shields and wearing body armour responded with tear gas in a bid to break up the melee with the demonstrators, many of whom are clad in black and wearing masks.

Across the river in the German city of Kehl, some 2,500 protesters have gathered but police say there is no violence.