European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 8, 1995 world the stars and stripes Page 11 French blast sets off riots in Tahiti Papeete Tahiti a anti nuclear and pro in dependence activists rampaged through Papeete s main Airport leaving a Trail of burned out cars and Glass shards to protest France s nuclear weapons test at my a Tirol atoll at least 13 people were injured in wednesday s Melee including two police officers in serious Condi Tion the French High commissioner s office said. After Sunset hundreds of protesters marched from the Airport to downtown Papeete the capital of French polynesia smashing shop windows looting clothing stores setting a perfumery ablaze and stoning the territorial Assembly building among others. A Ritter threw a firebomb through the window of the territorial Assembly but it was quickly extinguished. Dozens of other fires including one that forced the evacuation of the Royal Papeete hotel were out or under control by Midnight authorities said French paratroops and French foreign legionnaires landed at the Airport wednesday evening to secure it freeing 80 riot police officers to head downtown. By Early thursday authorities said relative Calm had returned to streets that hours before had resembled a combat zone. V about 1,000 protesters swarmed Over the runway wednesday before about 300 police intervened firing tear Gas and growing stun grenades in an attempt to Dis Perse the crowds a -. Demonstrators used a front end loader to smash through the Airport building they set fires and shattered Airport windows and the windshields of parked cars with stones. L a Black pall of smoke Hung Over the area As firefighters struggled to put put the fires raging All around the Airport. By evening part of the Airport building was gutted and blackened the offices and shops inside looted and burned. The skeletons of about 50 burned out cars and trucks littered the surrounding area. Damage to the Airport was estimated at $11 million said the office of French High commissioner Paul Yonciere. Tuesday s nuclear test was conducted beneath murmur a atoll some 750 Miles Southeast of Tahiti. The test one of up to eight that France contends Are necessary to develop computer simulations that will make further detonations unnecessary sent tensions soaring in the Region dramatic an injured French riot police officer protects his face wednesday As he is attacked at the Airport in Papeete Tahiti. Pally boosting support for French polynesia s Small Independence movement that has been calling for an end to France s almost 155-year-Oid colonial Rule the polynesian people have been pacifists and Calm for Many years for 17 years and we be had enough of it said Nelson Ortas the Campaign manager for Independence Leader Oscar Timaru. There were signs thursday that France might be Bend ing at least a bit under the Force of a global backlash. Defense minister Charles Millon repeatedly spoke of these six tests on French television wednesday eve Ning. And the leftist newspaper liberation reported thursday that the tests might end by mid november in Stead of May As planned. Fourteen ships carrying environmental Pio testers continued surrounding muru Roa on wednesday but French naval vessels patrolled to prevent further intrusions of the 12-mile exclusion zone around the  protest boat carrying German and belgian legislators Pacific parliamentarians and journalists from Australia Europe and Japan crashed into  Sel that was towing it to the Cook islands after breaking Down a week ago on its Way to muru Roa. Both the Fiji owned Kaun Toni and the Cook islands patrol boat the Sukupa which was towing it sustained superficial damage said Stuart Huggett . A. ". 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