18-6: 7 days holding! Swiss consulate still ocuped! Stop unpunished!!!
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Thursday June 19, 2003 00:59
by Andreu
After 7 days holding from the twelve storey building, 2 activists are still ressisting with a banner with a message of outrage and solidarity.
Today, some people of the support team have done an action in the Swiss hotel, in the center of Barcelona
Photos and report:
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46450&group=webcast
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46438&group=webcast
The demands of the activists from the Swiss Consulate are:
1. The immediate release of all prisoners who remain detained and imcommuincate since the G8 summit.
2. The complete withdrawal of criminal charges against all activists present during the bridge action.
3. A transparant, independent public inquiry into the training and orders and the general policing/security policy that surrounded this G8 sunnit. This public inquiry should also contain a specific invesitigation of the police team responsible for cutting the rope that caused the fall and subsequent injuries to Martin Shaw and his fellow activists.
4. The Swiss government to sign a written statement committing to take full responsibility for the acts of its police. This commitment to culpability should include the pledge to fully compensate all injured parties present during the bridge action, and other individuals who have incurred medical or judicial costs as a result of violent repression by the apparantly immune Swiss police forces.
more info and immediate action updates
Links:
www.barcelona.indymedia.org
www.uk.indymedia.org
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=72562&group=webcast
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=72602&group=webcast
Photos:
http://www.barcelona.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=45734&group=webcast
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3The police did nothing wrong. All the trouble was started by the Black Bloc.
Black bloc? On the bridge? I dont think so.
The police, In case everyone doesn't know by now, cut a rope which was holding an English man, Martin Shaw, 25 metres high over a river. When the rope was cut Martin fell and landed on the river and rocks, breaking his legs, ankles, pelvis and injuring his spine. He was harming no one.
By some miracle Martin survived and by another miracle he will walk again eventually.
Black Bloc my foot : )
on the SP leader 'Mini Mao' Michael O'Brien. In the latest copy of the Socialist Party rag the Voice, O'Brien claims that the State forces behaved themselves at Evian!
Obviously, everyone else including Amnesty are lying.
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