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GENEVA (AP) \u2014 French and Swiss authorities will impose a week of pandemic-like border restrictions as U.S. President Donald Trump<\/span> and other leaders attend a G7 summit<\/span> starting Monday while organizers fear potentially violent protests.<\/p>\n

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The summit of some of the world\u2019s richest nations from June 15-17 in the French town of Evian-les-Bains on Lake Geneva is meant to discuss the Middle East, Ukraine and global economic imbalances.<\/p>\n

In nearby Geneva, Switzerland, business owners and local leaders want to avoid a repeat of violent protests that smashed storefronts on the sidelines of the G8 summit in 2003, when Russia was in the club of nations. <\/p>\n

Protests are nothing new around such elite gatherings<\/span>. This time, activists want to demonstrate frustration with Trump\u2019s leadership on issues as diverse as tariffs, the war in Iran and the climate, or even highlight his past ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Authorities in Geneva and activist groups including environmentalists, feminists and foes of capitalism are facing off over the right to protest and the right to protection from those who target symbols of corporate and political power.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the G7 meets in Evian, France, to plan the destruction of peoples, the exploitation of life and the domination of bodies, let us organize our resistance against fascism and imperialism,\u201d the No G7 coalition of anti-capitalism groups said in its call for a \u201clarge-scale internationalist mobilization against this meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Businesses have been boarding up storefronts in Geneva, a center for United Nations offices, while some institutions like the World Trade Organization, which faced anti-capitalist protests in Seattle in the 1990s<\/span>, are closing offices and instructing staff to work remotely.<\/p>\n

Switzerland, a rich Alpine country, is not among the G7 membership that includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S.<\/p>\n

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G7 also brings airspace restrictions<\/h2>\n

France and Switzerland have struck a military cooperation agreement on G7 summit security. The arriving leaders will pass through the airport in Geneva, which is 95% surrounded by France and connected to the rest of Switzerland by a strip of land.<\/p>\n

The Swiss government said the army will deploy some 4,000 personnel to support police. Operations will include airspace restrictions, patrols on Lake Geneva and roadway restrictions. Seven of the 35 roadway border crossings will remain open. Geneva also is closing a major park where activists wanted to congregate.<\/p>\n

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