Farmer and son threatened at pistol point
Since the end of the first location studies in 1982 geologists have been warning against storing highly radioactive atomic waste in the Gorleben salt dome. Also assessed by the criteria of the Federal Agency for Geosciences and Raw Materials for a final repository Gorleben is ruled out as the location. Additionally, the same finding is made by a new study commissioned by Greenpeace. The rock cover over the salt is inadequate.
Gorleben is not suited for a final repository. All governments, regardless of their colours, are ignoring the problem out of fear of money demands by the nuclear industry. The announcement that there is a comparative and open search for a final repository is a delaying tactic.
In the parliamentary debate on 19 October the "environment angel”, federal environment minister Gabriel, has outed himself as an “atomic policy Beelzebub”. Although he talks about wanting to start a search for an “alternative” location, he wants to permit completion of the exploration of the Gorleben salt deposit at the same time.
We will continue with determination and imagination to create pressure on the streets. We will struggle for the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and bodily inviolability to be safeguarded as the highest to be protected good.
In several situations during this Castor transport the police leadership did not have their personnel under control. For example, plainclothes officers, pistol drawn, dragged a farmer out of his VW van and injured him and his 15-year-old son with pepper spray at Quickborn. In Metzingen Police searched for hours for a lost pistol which was ultimately handed back to them by observant nuclear opponents. In both cases the media releases and depictions by the police were false.
The population, who have to expose themselves year after year to this state of emergency to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly, have to be able to rely on not being endangered on top of everything else by inexperienced and nervous young police personnel.
Who would have thought at the first Castor transport into the Wendland in 1995 that in year 10 it would still be necessary to assign more than 16,000 police to guard the pure capital interests of the atomic power industry. That strengthens us in our success.
Again and again courts have ruled police actions illegal afterwards. Despite these legal successes against police arbitrariness and assembly bans, they are increased from year to year. We will show this atom and police state the red card!
Francis Althoff #49 5843 986789 + #49 0170-9394684
Dieter Metk #49 5841-6451 + #49 0170-2637782
Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow Dannenberg
Drawehner Str. 3 29439 Lüchow
Tel: 05841-4684 Fax: 3197
Press spokesman: Francis Althoff 05843 986789
bi-presse@t-online.de
www.bi-luechow-dannenberg.de
Translated by Diet Simon
Post-mortem meeting
The Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow Dannenberg will host a post-mortem gathering in Friday (17.11.) starting 7 pm in Cafe Grenzbereiche in Platenlaase. The meeting is to offer an opportunity to share experiences and gain an overview of what happened. All groups and individuals, from the first aid providers to the rope acrobats of Robin Wood, are invited to tell their stories.
Francis Althoff #49 5843 986789
Pick up the main thread at
http://germany.indymedia.org/2006/11/161877.shtml
Gorleben is not suited for a final repository. All governments, regardless of their colours, are ignoring the problem out of fear of money demands by the nuclear industry. The announcement that there is a comparative and open search for a final repository is a delaying tactic.
In the parliamentary debate on 19 October the "environment angel”, federal environment minister Gabriel, has outed himself as an “atomic policy Beelzebub”. Although he talks about wanting to start a search for an “alternative” location, he wants to permit completion of the exploration of the Gorleben salt deposit at the same time.
We will continue with determination and imagination to create pressure on the streets. We will struggle for the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and bodily inviolability to be safeguarded as the highest to be protected good.
In several situations during this Castor transport the police leadership did not have their personnel under control. For example, plainclothes officers, pistol drawn, dragged a farmer out of his VW van and injured him and his 15-year-old son with pepper spray at Quickborn. In Metzingen Police searched for hours for a lost pistol which was ultimately handed back to them by observant nuclear opponents. In both cases the media releases and depictions by the police were false.
The population, who have to expose themselves year after year to this state of emergency to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly, have to be able to rely on not being endangered on top of everything else by inexperienced and nervous young police personnel.
Who would have thought at the first Castor transport into the Wendland in 1995 that in year 10 it would still be necessary to assign more than 16,000 police to guard the pure capital interests of the atomic power industry. That strengthens us in our success.
Again and again courts have ruled police actions illegal afterwards. Despite these legal successes against police arbitrariness and assembly bans, they are increased from year to year. We will show this atom and police state the red card!
Francis Althoff #49 5843 986789 + #49 0170-9394684
Dieter Metk #49 5841-6451 + #49 0170-2637782
Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow Dannenberg
Drawehner Str. 3 29439 Lüchow
Tel: 05841-4684 Fax: 3197
Press spokesman: Francis Althoff 05843 986789
bi-presse@t-online.de www.bi-luechow-dannenberg.de
Translated by Diet Simon
Post-mortem meeting
The Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow Dannenberg will host a post-mortem gathering in Friday (17.11.) starting 7 pm in Cafe Grenzbereiche in Platenlaase. The meeting is to offer an opportunity to share experiences and gain an overview of what happened. All groups and individuals, from the first aid providers to the rope acrobats of Robin Wood, are invited to tell their stories.
Francis Althoff #49 5843 986789
Pick up the main thread at
http://germany.indymedia.org/2006/11/161877.shtml
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