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More nuclear waste reaches German dump at Gorleben after protests by thousands
by Diet Simon
Thursday November 16, 2006 at 02:58 PM
After a 58-hour rail and truck run through France and Germany another 175 metric tonnes of returning German nuclear waste has reached a storage hall in the northern village of Gorleben.
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The tenth such consignment was protested and delayed many times in both countries by thousands of anti-nuclear activists and guarded by 16,000 German police with horses, dogs, helicopters and water cannon.
Along the last 20 kms of roads from the railhead at Dannenberg to the dump compound in Gorleben 2,000 activists several times held up the truck convoy which moved at night.
The local opposition umbrella group reports police injuring 146 protesters, 11 of whom needed hospital treatment, four for serious head injuries. About a hundred demonstrators were detained during the night.
Protesters know they can’t prevent the consignments, but aim to make them as expensive as possible as a wake-up call to the public and politicians. Policing costs about 50 million euros for each at a time when public money is scarce in Germany.
The full story with pictures is at http://germany.indymedia.org/2006/11/161877.shtml.
Policeman's life-threatening behaviour.
by Diet Simon
Thursday November 16, 2006 at 02:58 PM
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A policeman pushes would-be protest climbers backwards off a tree in life-threatening behaviour which his superiors did not stop.
Marinanne Fritzen
by Diet Simon
Thursday November 16, 2006 at 02:58 PM
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Marianne Fritzen, 82-year-old bedrock of the Gorleben resistance who's been fighting nuclear installations in the area for 30 years.
Castor and cops
by Diet Simon
Thursday November 16, 2006 at 02:58 PM
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Police and one of the 12 112-tonne Castor caskets containing about 400 kg of hihly radioactive waste.
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