Time-Line of Feb 6th in Munich
Short time-line of the events on friday, Feb 6th at Nato-Conference in Munich.
Deutsche Übersetzung
- 5 pm: At different places in Munich hundreds of people gathered for rallies. There are about the same amount of cops who control everybody who takes part (often a couple of times)
- 5:30 pm: the atmosphere is very tense, police very aggressive: demonstrators were pushed around. In at least one case a photographer was threatened not to publish his pictures
- 5.45 pm: There are three groups (each of 10 to 20 people) in the area Maximiliansplatz/ Place of the Victims of National-Socialism (PDO)who are closed in by the police. These groups had blocked the street at 4:45 pm. for about one minute where later the convoi of the participants of the conference passed by. The demonstrators were pushed from the street immediately.
- 5:45 pm: Relying on the legal team there were more than 30 people detained
- 5:45 pm: Meantime there are more than hundred people gathering for a human chain on the Platz der Opfer des NS to surround the Bayrische Hof (the place where the conference takes place)
- 6 pm: One of the above mentioned groups of closed in people are arrested.
- 6:10 pm: some skirmishes with police, at some points bashes in to the stomach and face
- 6:10 pm: At Lenbachplatz too people are gathering for a humain chain which is constrained by police using pepper-spray. All people in the three police circles at Maximilianplatz are arrested now and - as police said - soon removed. People arrested by bavarian police were treated with special brutality. There are reports about numerous injuries.
- 6:30 pm: One person collapsed and lost its consciousness after a bash with a police-club.
- 6:35 pm: On the PDO the rally with about 1000 participants takes place (relying on the Info-telefon). The rally on Lenbachplatz is dissolved. The human chain is heavyly constrained: People are picked out by police (with or without uniform); pepper-spray is used; the street is getting cleared.
- 7:15 pm: according to a speech, the rally was relocated to Odeonsplatz and is going to continue until 9 pm
- 7:30 pm: about 200 people gather at Odeonsplatz
- 7:40 pm: all 60 people remaining there were detained
- 7:40 pm: Tobias Pflüger was detained after his speech at PDO, released after 20 minutes. Reason was probably, like last year, the content of his speech
- 9:00 pm: approx. 100 people disturbed Struck (german defence minister) and Rumsfeld at dinner in a Kaefer-Restaurant. After police arrived, 20 persons sat down on the ground, approx. 15 persons were detained
- 9:00 pm: according to police-sources 166 persons were put under "freedom depriving methods", according to police-sources only 500 people were at the demonstrations and a police-press-speaker said: "we were more", the Human Chain could not be built, 3-4000 Policemen and ?women were on duty. The detainment of Tobias Pflüger was not confirmed by police.
- 10:00 pm: Police confirms 175 Freedom-Deprivements
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