G8 Protests Down The Years

Canadian police allow a protester's van through a checkpoint near Toronto in 2002

The 2003 summit in Evian, France was accompanied by protests in the neighbouring Swiss city of Geneva

Police in riot gear keep protesters at bay in Brunswick, Georgia during the G8 summit at nearby Sea Island in 2004

Police form a cordon around the venue during a previous UK-hosted G8 summit at Gleneagles, Scotland in 2005

A protester is arrested by riot police ahead of the 2006 G8 summit in St Petersburg, Russia

Police use water cannon to disperse protesters at Bollhagen, Germany during the summit at nearby Heiligendamm in 2007

Japanese riot police stand guard during a protest march in Sapporo before the 2008 G8 summit

Students look on as police block a street in Rome on the eve of the 2009 summit in Italy

A protester destroys a poster of Justin Bieber as mounted riot police look on in Toronto, Canada in 2010

Fake bank notes were used in a protest against tax havens in the run-up to the 2011 Deauville G8 summit in France

Large-scale protests were prevented in 2012 by moving the US G8 summit venue from Chicago to Camp David