Whole village declared under arrest

Diet Simon, sourced on activist radio 12.11.2003 01:57 Themen: Atom
Activist radio ZuSa Radio Stream ( http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65905.shtml) reports police declaring the entire village of Grippel under arrest. Earlier police dragged people across fences and kicked them. A water cannon is at the ready. Protesters are covering themselves with sheeting, under which they’re singing, reportedly in a happy mood. A loudspeaker car is playing music and speeches about human dignity being inviolable, as set out in the German constitution. Police, lined up along both footpaths of the main street of Grippel are starting to seize individual demonstrators out of the group. A police contact woman among the activists tells the radio that police appear to have lost the plot. Under the law, from the moment people are arrested the time begins in which they have to be presented “without delay” to a judge, who decides whether the arrest is legal. Local courts have been reprimanded by the German supreme court for not abiding by correct procedure in the past. The local courts argued that there was just too much for them to do to get it right.
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All Laase ”under arrest” too

By Andreas - 12.11.2003 01:40 (diet simon tra 12.11.2003 - 02:02
After declaring the entire village of Laase to be under arrest, police are seizing people who move on the street; they are then encircled and led off as a group to an unknown destination.