Get in SHAPE
30 Oct 2003 04:37 GMT500 activists arrested at the NATO headquarters in Belgium
Thousand "civil inspectors" participated in the "Get in SHAPE action". They tried to enter the military base of the NATO headquarters in Belgium. Most of the activists were arrested by the federal police before they even got on the military ground, but 55 activists got through and were later arrested inside the base. In total, nearly 500 persons were arrested. Get in SHAPE is the 6th edition of Bomspotting.
These are non-violent actions of civil disobedience with the purpose to get arrested for an illegal entering of the NATO base. In this way the activists want to denounce the illegal situation of the presence of weapons of mass-destruction on Belgian territory. In an international treaty, the Belgian government agreed not to accept them.
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