Chronology of the November Castor transport

Diet Simon (compiling from Indymedia posts) 13.11.2003 08:25 Themen: Atom
Chronology of the Castor transport to Gorleben, November 2003:
12 Nov 20:27 Another demo took place in Lüneburg from 4 pm. Despite the presence of six conflict managers there were clashes and injuries. Unexpectedly up to 200 protesters turned up. Police without local knowledge caused confusin about banned and permitted routes.

12 Nov 22:38 Dispute posted about demo methods at Grippel previous day

12 Nov 05:40 Call to release all prisoners taken by police, “especially the encircled who’ve been holding out in the cold for hours in Quickborn, Grippel, Laase”

12 Nov 5.28: much delayed, the last Castor container reaches the Gorleben storage hall (pictured at  http://www.heute.t-online.de/ZDFheute/artikel/17/0,1367,POL-0-178449,00.html) +++ All police encirclements of protesters dissolved +++ Call to 4 p.m. demo in Lüneburg against reprisals against prisoners +++ Activist radio ZUSA staying on air live until 3 pm, frequencies: Wendland/Altmark: 89.7, Uelzen: 88.0, Lüneburg: 95.5 Internet WWW.Zusa.de Livestream. Broadcasts coming from Plattenlaase +++ Studio phone 05864-987554

12 Nov 05:39 Police continue encirclement in Grippel +++ timed pictures by Frank Eichinger at  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/66049.shtml +++ e-Mail::  frank@eichi.de ¦ Homepage::  http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013807/tmp/grippel03/ +++ Grippel is about 6 km from Gorleben and the junction of the two possible Castor routes +++

12 Nov 05:31 Call to protesters to come to Gedelitz +++ Call to 4 pm Demo in Lüneburg +++ Reprisals against prisoners +++

12 Nov 05:26 Castor trucks drive into Gorleben storage compound +++ Police hunt down demonstrators in Quickborn

12 Nov 05:17 Castor convoy through Laase

12 Nov 05:34 By radio police leaders thank all police and border police deployed and wish them a good journey home; same concept to be used next year

12 Nov 05:11 Castor convoy through Grippel +++ Police leaders declare assignment over

12 Nov 04:59 “Music fighting vehicle” en route to Gedelitz - joint closing session

12 Nov 04:58 Police encircle Quickborn community house ++++ Castor through Langendorf.

12 Nov 04:55 Castor truck convoy through Laase, which is a few kilometres from Gorleben +++ Activists encircled

12 Nov 04:39 Brief stop in Quickborn +++ Moving on through Langendorf.

12 Nov 04:37 Convoy on north route +++ Road transport starts 1 ½ hours late +++ Convoy takes north route, has two spare tractors along +++ Pictures at  http://www.seg-dannenberg.org
+++ e-Mail::  mobil_elw@seg-dannenberg.org ¦ Homepage::  http://www.seg-dannenberg.org ¦ Address: Roadhouse Dannenberg ¦ Telephone: 05861 - 97 97 87 +++ Convoy composition: about 100 police, 2 Castor lowloaders, 6-8 police vehicles, 2 Castor lowloaders, again police vehicles, and so on until all 12 lowloaders are on the road, the convoy ending with one to two hundred police

12 Nov 04:09 Castor road transport is rolling, using the north route +++

12 Nov 03:56 Trucks not yet moving +++ All 500 demonstrators in Grippel being held by police without facilities +++ Police holding a seriously injured woman in an ambulance in Grippel

12 Nov 03:31 Castor convoy vanguard forms +++ Castor containers still not moving. Castor vanguard moving

12 Nov 03:31 The vanguard of the Castor road convoy of heavy-duty, low-loader trucks has started to roll, most likely heading for the north route.

12 Nov 03:22 Blockade in Grippel removed +++ Heavy-duty lowloader trucks ready to move from Dannenberg since 2:10 am

12 Nov 02:24 Blockade in Langendorf (north route) appears to have been removed, blockade in Gusborn (south route) remains.

12 Nov 02:32 Activists have been moved out of the village of Grippel, some police brutality reported +++ Privately owned paddock confiscated for holding detainees

12 Nov 02:24 Blockade in Langendorf (north route) seems to have been moved away, blockade in Gusborn (south route) still in place

12 Nov 01:57 Police massively shifting forces in the direction of Gorleben, road transport seems about to start. +++ Villages of Laase and Grippel declared completely under arrest; some arbitrary seizures of activists

12 Nov 02:05 ZuSa activist radio interviews Australian Aboriginal woman fighting nuclear waste dumping in Coober Pedy area  http://Monday//2003/11/65197.shtml +++ Activist radio ( 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. An activist woman who liaises with police 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.

12 Nov 00:38 Police encircle 500 people in Grippel, say all will be detained

12 Nov 00:11
It’s reported that despite several warning signals the Castor train sped through obstacles on the tracks south of Göttingen.

11 Nov 22:47 Sitting blockade in Langendorf (north route) being removed, people detained +++ About 700 block the road near Gusborn (south route), about 400 near Grippel +++ Reloading from train to trucks continues in Dannenberg

11 Nov c. 23:30 Two Radio Zusa interviews  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65898.shtml, one with Robin Wood activists in tree house, the other with police spokesman expressing concern things could be thrown down from the tree house. +++ Activists leave the tree house when police threaten to destroy it ++ House equipment like ropes and ladder seized, close guard on the last rope hanging down!

11 Nov 22:47 Sit-down blockade in Langendorf (north route) being removed, people being detained +++ About 500 blockading road near Gusborn (south route), about 400 near Grippel +++ Reloading from train to trucks continuing in Dannenberg

11 Nov 22:36 Quote from interior ministry media release about new command post vehicles for border police.

11 Nov 22:12 Pictures taken about 9 pm at the reloading station in Dannenberg  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65878.shtml

11 Nov 21:35 Six of the 12 Castor containers have been loaded off the train onto trucks

11 Nov 20:17 The Castor train needed more than five hours from Lüneburg to Dannenberg. The 12-stop stretch takes normal passenger services 58 minutes. Small and large groups of demonstrators kept getting on to the tracks. At 9.35, when the train had passed Uelzen station, about 500 people were getting ready at “refreshment stations”. In groups of different sizes they made for Hitzacker and Harlingen “to see how far they’d go” (their demo slogan). A pleasant surprise was the news that about 25 kms away 70 people had stopped the train in Rohstorf with a sit-down blockade. The train took from 9.55 to 15.35. Single people, groups of two and three, kept climbing on to the tracks everywhere, which pulled police lines apart for seven km, enabling blockaders to slip through. Not even mouinted police, deployed in unprecedented numbers, could prevent this. The procedure was further aided by creative stupidity. Near the refreshment stations, strollers had left their vehicles any old way, hinderin police convoys getting through. Which forced several hundred police to walk several kms to their destinations. A way blockage by farming implements in the end delayed the departure of the police troops by hours.

11 Nov 19:55 "Widersetzen", the big non-violent sit-down bloxckade of the road road route is being prepared in Langendorf, Grippel and Gusborn, already more than 1,000 demonstrators there +++ Post at  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65871.shtml about federal government plans to celebrate its alleged abandonment of nuclear power in Berlin in the same week that 12 Castor containers are rolling into Gorleben.

11 Nov 19:09 Pictures of Castors being reloaded from train cars to trucks in Dannenberg  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65843.shtml

11 Nov 18:31 Road transport of the 12 Castor containers likely via the north route

11 Nov 17:00 One activist of Robin Wood has managed to get into the tree house in Langendorf at the northern road

11 Nov 18:56 Police threat to destroy tree house if activists don’t come down. +++ A Robin Wood activist manages to get into the tree house in Langendorf on the northern Castor road route, other activists try to follow him despite hindrances by police. +++ Robin Wood activists stopped from entering Langendorf tree house, from which police have removed ladders and ropes.

11 Nov 18:52 2,500 at Castor train arrival in Dannenberg +++ Road transport route closed in Langendorf because of repairs to the road surface which was undermined with water; the concrete still has to set +++  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65859.shtml

11 Nov 18:03 pictures of the Dannenberg reloading crane and demo
 http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65843.shtml +++ More at  http://www.seg-dannenberg.org +++  mobil_elw@seg-dannenberg.org,  http://www.seg-dannenberg.org, address Roadhouse Dannenberg, phone 05861 - 97 97 87 +++ Pictures at Lüneburg station  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65822.shtml

11 Nov 16:50 While the Castor train rolls into Lüneburg station, police use inappropriate force against peaceful demonstrators, injuring three and arresting four. Pictures from Lüneburg after almost 40-minute stop there  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65798.shtml

11 Nov 16:30 Demo between Nebenstedt and Splietau ++ Klein Gusborn: Tractor blockade remains, more activists gathering +++ Still a lot of people at the Dannenberg reloading crane (from train to truck) +++ In Langendorf there’s a “carnival procession” +++ The Castor train arrives at the Dannenberg reloading crane

11 Nov 16:00 h Dannenberg Roadhouse/reloading station: many people there +++ A bush burns, attempts to extinguish it

11 Nov 15:36 300 folks at the Roadhaus in Dannenberg, police call in reinforcements, good spirits among those present

11 Nov 15.30: Castor train reaches Dannenberg +++ Several hundred people in a good mood in central Dannenberg near reloading station +++ Tractors of the farmers’ emergency community block the road in Klein-Gusborn

11 Nov 14:44 Train just outside Seerau - stop and go +++ Police on horseback clear the track over the Seerau bridge +++ Sit-down blockade at Harlingen again stops the train, is pushed off, track cleared, train moves on slowly +++ At kilometre 187.7 people jump on to the advance train, which stops again

11 Nov 14:31 Demonstrators gathering Tuesday morning in Lüneburg passenger station. When the Casstor train nears, police push them away and keep them in check. At least three demonstrators arrested.

11 Nov 14.27: Female activists beaten with batons to get them off the advance train, train keeps rolling

11 Nov 13:19 Train has passed Dahlenburg and is in Göhrde station +++ 2 chained people removed from the track a few km on in Tangsehl

11 Nov 11:50 Harlingen: 200 - 300 pushed off the track by mounted police +++ People on the move everywhere along the track and in the forest

11 Nov 11:29 Again and again small blockades on rail and road are removed and turn up again +++ Castor stopped at Wendisch Evern +++

11 Nov 09:40 through Bad Bevensen, about 25 km south of Lüneburg. Going 80 kmh, may reach Lüneburg between 10 and 10.10 am.

11 Nov 08:49 Through Celle, Uelzen towards Lüneburg.  http://www.oneworldweb.de/Castor train/

11 Nov 08.36 in Lehrte, heading for Burgdorf/Celle, could make Lüneburg by 10 a.m. or earlier without incidents. Taking shorter route Celle, Suderburg, Uelzen, Bad Bevensen, Bienenbüttel, Lüneburg. NiX-Live-Ticker  http://www.oneworldweb.de/Castor train/ticker/index.html ; where is the Castor train?  http://www.oneworldweb.de/Castor train/nix8/woCastor train.html

11 Nov 07:30 am train stands in Lehrte / Hannover, apparently taking a break.

11 Nov 7:15 Castor still in Hannover. Police presence reported on the routes Uelzen to Lüneburg, and via Nienburg, Rotenburg/W., Buchholz/Nordheide, Maschen to Lüneburg.

11 Nov 05:28 Castor train passes Kreiensen, moves towards Hannover +++ 05:19 through Nordheim

11 Nov 05:23 Train runs through Göttingen 5 am.

11 Nov 04:53 Castor train outside Göttingen. 4.35 in Witzenhausen (30min to Göttingen). Runs very fast. Does NOT brake for people on the tracks.

11 Nov 4.35 Castor train near Witzenhausen (30min from Göttingen). Running very fast, does not brake for people on the tracks.

11 Nov At 03:55h Castor train passes through Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and on towards Göttingen.

11 Nov 03:26 Castor train has passed Bera, running towards Kassel.

11 Nov 03:13 Castor train through Bebra heading for Kassel

11 Nov 03:05 Police threaten to bash reporter for activist radio trying to cover demo:  fanal@radio-rum.de

11 Nov 02:52 Activist Kassel route watch leaves because of heavy police presence. Police moving along the route towards Göttingen.

11 Nov 02:50 Police activity in Hannover town, especially near railway liones. People and vehicles checked  info@atomplenum.de, address: www.atomplenum.de ¦.

11 Nov 2:15 Through Fulda

11 Nov 02:02 Police ban people from certain places. First chopper arrives, second 10 minutes later.

11 Nov 01:57 Kassel momentarily as if dead, not a cop in sight.

11 Nov 01:37 Demo in Hannover by more than 50 people. 2002 train rolled through Hannover towards Gorleben (H-Laatzen-H-Linden-Ahlem-Wunstorf).  http://www.atomplenum.de

11 Nov 00:35 Police massed in front of the passenger and freight stations. Passenger station totally in their control. Id’s of all who enter or leave are checked. 20 vans outside the cargo station. Plainclothes and other patrols on the other side, all checking id’s. Many police unfamiliar with the area because not from there, so make ludicrous mistakes. Police vehicles at all junctions. 11 Nov 00:45 Entire Göttingen, town and industrial area, full of police, probably not a bridge or crossing without them, people body-searched.  http://www.oneworldweb.de/castor/3aktuelles.html

11 Nov 00:27 Castor Radio for Hamburg region and Wendland:
Radio ZuSa always airs from 23-6 o’clock (Mo/Tu and Tu/We) live reports and phone interviews from the wendland to Hamburg. (Livestream at www.zusa.de, but is fairly overloaded.) Tnight and tomorrow night live from 11 pm to 6 am.

11 Nov 0.15 Heavy police presence at Göttingen cargo and passenger stations, id’s checked of all who want to enter or leave.

10 Nov 23:56 High police presence at Hannover-Linden railway station, some vehicles hidden.

10 Nov 23:52 Strong police presence reported on Nienburg-Verden route. A water cannon sighted near Dörverden, two police launches near Aller Bridge.

10 Nov 22:59 Castor train likely to run through Kassel. Five arrests reported. Warning that anyone staying near tracks would be arrested. Contact : 0173-5475117.

10 Nov 22:50 Police remove a human blockade in Gusborn, injuring many; children are yanked from tractor trailers, the first row of people get punched in the face, police kick and bash, people pushed off in an open circle; police short-circuit tractors and drive them away. Police leader waits until editorial deadlines are past so that the next day’s media will have nothing about this.

10 Nov 22:43 Nuclear opponents stop an Intercity passenger train in Darmstadt central station, achieving the first meaningful delay of train traffic.

10 Nov 22:35 Report of burning tires and cable shafts on the routes Uelzen-Lüneburg, Hamburg-Ludwigslust and Berlin-Wolfsburg, hindering rail traffic at about 4:30 am Monday. e-Mail:  stop@den.castor

10 Nov 21:59 Pictures from the southwest  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65715.shtml

10 Nov 21:20 Castor train standing since 20:40 at Jagstfeld because of two people chained to the track, a local and a Briton.
10 Nov 9 pm 15 people follow call for an anti-Castor meeting at Marburg/Lahn station. Several police officers stop them getting in.

10 Nov 20:56 Train moves on unlit and without helicopter cover.

10 Nov 20:24 Because of 15 protesters Lüneburg police cause huge traffic snarl at peak time.

10 Nov 19.50 Train through Bietigheim heading for Heilbronn. There were demonstrations right next to the tracks.  kontakt.akwhessen@epost.de ¦ Homepage::  http://www.castor.de ¦

10 Nov 19:25 Anti-Castor online game installed for those who want to practice before heading to Wendland.  http://de.geocities.com/lengers16/nocastorgame.html ¦

10 Nov 19.25 Train arrives in Bietigheim-Bissingen, where it has to change direction. Well attended demo at station reported. Picture  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65693.shtml

10 Nov 19:06 Castor train en route to Bietigheim-Bissingen, i.e. it will not take the Rhine-Main route. Good-humoured activists await it at the station.

10 Nov 19:01 Castor protest in Berlin by about eight people at 4.30 pm, who stopped an ICE train from departing for a few minutes.


10 Nov 18:04 Berlin: Few activists compared with police numbers. Attempts to hinder train traffic. Banners displayed.

10 Nov 18:03 Train leaves Wörth 17.58 following a spontaneous protest gathering in the station.  SuedWestInfo@gmx.de

10 Nov 17:47 Strong police presence between Nienburg and Verden; at Dörverden, where the last Castor train was stopped, a water canno is in place. Two police launches visible at the Aller Bridge near Verden. Observations between 4 and 5 pm.

10 Nov 16.30 Castor train arrives in Wörth

10 Nov 16:28 Train through Maximiliansau, soon in Wörth for shunting.

10 Nov 16:22 The Castor train has crossed the German-French border three and a half hours late +++ 3,000 at anti-Castor demo in Lüneburg

10 Nov 16:14 Castor train crosses border into Germany in Lauterbourg.

10 Nov 15:20 Castor train rolling again since 13:46 after activists stopped it for two hours.

10 Nov 14:39 Story about police running their own radio service and more than 100-person propaganda unit for Gorleben deployments
 http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65619.shtml

10 Nov 14:01 Both activists removed from the rail track +++ After a stop of two hours the train is running again

10 Nov 13:26 Radio interview about situation in France mp3 830K
Freies Radio

10 Nov 12:41 Anti-Castor Radio: Situation in Maximiliansau  http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=8064

10 Nov 12:30 Activists stop train before the border. Two people, one man from the Wendland and one from France, have chained themselves to the rails. The train is stopped behind Luneville. SüdWestInfo@gmx.de

10 Nov 12:12 Castor train stopped since 11:45 behind Luneville. A Wendlander and a Frenchman have chained themselves to the track. Train moves on two hour late. The activists expect to cause at least two hours delay +++ The action is deliberately German-French

10 Nov 09:03 The person was released again in the night.

10 Nov Around 4.30 a.m. rail traffic hindered by burning tires and cable shafts on the routes Uelzen-Lüneburg, Hamburg-Ludwigslust and Berlin-Wolfsburg.

10 Nov 02:14 First arrest of demonstrator at around 0.00h in Maximiliansau, near Karlsruhe. Person accused of messing with yellow paint on platform. Two police choppers in the air and other big input to find the dauber. Police also accuse the arrested person of damaging station lamps.

10 Nov 01:01 Demo by about 30 in Osnabrück central station. After peacefully following police orders to leave, the group marched spontaneously with drums and banners through a main street. Although there was litte likelihood of Castor trains through Osnabrück, a spokesman said they wanted to make the point that radioactivity knows no boundaries and that the railways profits from such transports through a division specially set up for the purpose.  buendnis.gegen.atomenergie@web.de ¦ Homepage::  http://www.antiatomos.de ¦

9 Nov 23:00 Pictures from the southwest  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65534.shtml

9 Nov 22:58 Pictures from Lüneburg  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65525.shtml

9 Nov 21:28 Regardless of the route the train takes, Rhein-Main nuclear opponents call a gathering.

9 Nov 19:40 Castor train starts journey a minute sooner than the time published on the internet.

9 Nov 19:24 Since Saturday Münsterlanders are inviting anti-atomic groups to a resistance barn at Meudelfitz Estate, about 2 km from Hitzacker. The mood after the 1st day is very good, there’s an own kitchen, lots of staw and a railway track quite nearby. Yesterday everyone was at the demo in Dannenberg, today they took part in action in and near Hitzacker. Camp mobile: Tel. 0162-7752056.  castorstoppen@web.de,  http://www.wigatom.de

9 Nov 18:00 Twenty-seven men and women horse riders got together for a ride out in the Göhrde Forest.  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65461.shtml
Between Grünhagen and Leitstade the rail track had to be crossed several times. That was possible without problems in most cases. In breaks the police tried unsuccessfully to make agreements on further procedure.

9 Nov 16:11 Anti-Castor-Radio Stuttgart 99.2 by aerial, 102.1 in cable, at following times: Monday from 6-7, 8-12; Tuesday 6-12; Wedenesday 6-9, 10-12. Ready stories on the Castors:  http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5390
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5397
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5398
Homepage::  http://www.freieradios.net  http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5399
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5401
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5402
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5413
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5414
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5415
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5416
 http://freieradios.nadir.org/portal/content.php?id=5417
Homepage::  http://www.freieradios.net

9 Nov 16:04 Link to Castor ticker (updated every three minutes if there’s anything new)  http://www.oneworldweb.de/castor/ticker/index.html

9 Nov 14:44 “Impartial and independent”, the first aid service of SEG - Dannenberg e.V. at the 2003 Castor transports again offers online reporting on its internet pages,  http://www.seg-dannenberg.org , and this year cooperates closely with the first aid group "Status 4" and most camps. Centre: 0 58 61 - 97 97 87, reachable round the clock.

9 Nov 13:41 Breaking news for WAP mobiles at  http://Monday/index.wml

9 Nov 11:02 Notice from “Sanidezentrale” that they are first aid givers for demonstrators, that “as in past three transports we provide partisan care…..We don’t like cops, some of us are even allergic to them. We cooperate with the BI and all forms of action.” Phone 05882 987436

9 Nov 10:32 Around a dozen Robin Wood activists climb the pithead tower of the salt mine being explored as a possible final repository for nuclear waste at about 6.30 am.  presse@robinwood.de ¦ Homepage::  http://www.kein-atomklo.de, picture  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/11/65424.shtml

9 Nov 10:01 A night stroll is seen as a threat to the state of Lower Saxony. Yesterday a group of Dutch tourists were “encircled” at about 10.30 pm and hence illegally held. This though the place where this happened in the centre of town is three kms away from the no-go corridor. The visitors were just looking through town to find a place to stay when a grouip of Cologne police encircled them. They held them for half an hour and stopped friendly Hitzacker people giving them something warm to drink. Police vehicle registration numbers K-3666 , K-3758 , K-3764 , K-3291 .

9 Nov Castor train starts moving a minute earlier than published on the Internet. Loaded with 12 Castor containers, pulled by two locomotives, pushed by another, also contains three passenger carriages. Make-up: 2 diesel locomotives, 1 CRS car (translator doesn’t know what that is), 12 containers, 1-2 CRS cars. 1 diesel locomotive. Demonstrations in Valognes with French and German banners, giant atom symbol. More actions planned in France. Flyers and iodine tablets distributed in Vandouvre-lès-Nancy. French women were at demo in Dannenberg, more have arrived there meanwhile.
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