La police danoise a evacue un site de baraquements a Chrisitina, Copenhague
Lora 12 Sep 2005 10:20 GMT (translated by Lora)La police danoise a organise une descente dans une partie de Christiania, a Copenhague au Danemark Christiania. Environ 200 policiers de la brigade anti emeute sont entres violemment dans l etat libre et ont vite mis la main sur 'Fredens Eng' - le champ de la paix - une partie du territoire ou les gens vivaient dans des campements. Cette operation est l une des plus grandes operations d arrestations du danemark - elles sont une centaine Il y a de nombreux temoignages unanimes de violences policieres. La plupart des accusations sont des delits de non obeissance aux ordres de la police meme si certaines arrestations ont pour motif 'violence envers les forces de police'. Christinia etait une communaute auto geree donc aucun permis etait necessaire pour s installer sur ses terres et y construire un baraquement. Une nouvelle loi demandait aux nouveaux arrivants de partir pour la realisation d un projet immobilier. Les habitants de Christinia militaient contre cette loi depuis plusieurs annees. Leur souhait est de conserver leur autonomie et leurs institutions de decision en place depuis plus de vingt ans ... Links: Christiania Website | Denmark Indymedia | Photos: (1) (2) | Danish Clown Army Website | Video (mainstream media) | More Film Footage - (free registration) | Newly introduced laws threaten Christiania
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Aux alentours de 9:30 du matin Mercredi 7 Septembre, environ 200 policiers portant des matraques ont fait irruption dans l etat libre de Christiania a Copenhague, au Danemark. Ils ont vite mis la main sur 'Fredens Eng' - le champ de la paix - une partie du territoire ou les gens vivaient dans des campements. Chaque personne presente dans le champ - certaines en habit de clown - a ete arrete.
L annonce de l operation policiere a circule rapidement permettant a de nombreuses personnes de se deplacer sur les lieux par solidarite. S en est suivi un etat d agitation et de malaise. Certaines personnes ont jete de l eau sur la police, mais rien de plus serieux. Neanmoins, la police s est montre tres brutale. Ce fut certainement l une des plus grandes operations d arrestations du Danemark - un officier de police a estime le nombre d arrêtés a 111. La situation s est calmee lorsque la police a quitte Christiania. Il y a de nombreux temoignages unanimes de violences policieres.
Le porte parole de la police Danoise , Flemming Steen Munck, a declare modkraft.dk (quotidien Danois de gauche) que les arrestations furent pacifiques. Or, d autres personnes ont un autre point de vue. Un manifestant de 17 ans dit: "La police nous a place dans un coin tres violemment. J ai recu un coup de poing a l estomac sans l avoir provoque. Malgre avoir tousse et saigne de la levre, on ne m a pas laisse partir. Au contraire on m a arrete."
Le gouvernment danois actuel semble hostile a Christiania. Jusqu a recemment, Christinia etait auto gere donc aucun permis etait necessaire pour s installer sur ses terres et y construire un baraquement. Une nouvelle loi demandait aux nouveaux arrivants de partir pour la realisation d un projet immobilier. Les habitants de Christiania militaient contre cette loi depuis plusieurs annees. Leur souhait est de conserver leur autonomie et leurs institutions de decision en place depuis plus de vingt ans ...
Les habitants des baraquements avaient recu un ultimatum des autorites locales leur ordonnant de quitter les mobilhomes avant midi hier (Mardi 6). Il y eut un ultimatum plus tot dans la semaine mais les baraquements furent deplaces pendant ce temps. Hier certains policiers entrerent dans le champ mais firent demi tour. Un trepied fut place sur les mobilhomes afin d empecher la police de les deplacer. Il parait qu une personne sur le trepied a urine sur des officiers de police apres les avoir prevenus de ce besoin tres urgent (mais ces derniers n ont pas bouge...)
Les manifestants ont ete accuses de non obeissance aux ordres de la police. Cela fait partie de la loi danoise §119, section 3. Comme ce delit sera inscrit sur le casier judiciaire des personnes arretes, environ 50 d entre elles - principalement des jeunes etudiants - ne peuvent plus acceder a certains emplois du a leur arrestation. 10-20 personnes ont ete condamnees pour violence envers la police. Tous les manifestants ont ete relaches apres 7 -8 heures de garde a vue.
Another COuntry joins the terror list
Is the West all terrorists- Missing 911 12.Sep.2005 00:22
Well I guess we need to add another country to the terror list -
Mahathir calls US, UK terrorist nations
Al Jazeera
Friday 09 September 2005 5:46 AM GMT
US and British pilots whose bombs killed Iraqi civilians were murderers, and actions taken by those two countries during the invasion and occupation of Iraq amounted to terrorism, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has said.
Several British and US diplomats walked out in protest of Mahathir's broadside against their countries in a speech at a national conference in Kuala Lumpur on human rights on Friday.
Mahathir, who ruled Malaysia for 22 years before retiring in 2003, also defended his human-rights record in government. He was often criticised for detaining suspects without trial under a security law and for the imprisonment of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Mahathir decried the deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians as a result of the US-led military invasion and occupation. He compared American and British actions in Iraq to rocket attacks by Israel on Palestinians, and referred to those countries as "these terrorist nations".
To kill and maim
"The British and American bomber pilots came, unopposed, safe and cosy in their state of the art aircraft, pressing buttons to drop bombs, to kill and maim," Mahathir said of the Iraq invasion.
Mahathir called British and US
bomber pilots 'murderers'
"And these murderers, for that is what they are, would go back to celebrate Mission Accomplished."
"Who are the terrorists? The people below who were bombed or the bombers? Whose rights have been snatched away?"
He also questioned why there was no tally of Iraqi deaths while every US soldier's killing is documented.
"These are soldiers who must expect to be killed. But the Iraqis who die because of the US action or the civil war in Iraq that the US has precipitated are innocent civilians who under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein would be alive," said Mahathir.
'It was a lie'
Mahathir, who when in power was a US ally in the fight against terrorism although he opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, noted that Washington's reason for invading Iraq was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
"As we all know it was a lie," he said.
"Who are the terrorists? The people below who were bombed or the bombers? Whose rights have been snatched away"
"Worse still, the powers which are supposed to save the Iraqi people have broken international laws on human rights by detaining Iraqis and others and torturing them at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere," he said, referring to US prison camps.
British High Commissioner Bruce Cleghorn and several unidentified US officials attending the conference walked out midway through Mahathir's speech.
British and US diplomats were not immediately available for comment.
Very distasteful
Hamdan Adnan, a senior official with the state-backed National Human Rights Commission, described the diplomats' action as "very distasteful.
"If they claim to subscribe to the democratic process, why can't they listen?" he told The Associated Press.
The US accused Mahathir of rights violations when he fired Anwar as his deputy in 1998.
Anwar was arrested after leading anti-government rallies, and sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption and sodomy charges. He was freed on appeal last year, after serving the corruption sentence
irrelevant
aero 12.Sep.2005 04:07
At the first commenter: The comments section of an unrelated article really isn't the place to post that. Stop going off-topic.
Danish police evict trailersite in Christiania, Copenhagen
Scott Rigelsford 12.Sep.2005 08:45
Nice little article of how the police are behaving (or not behaving) themselves. Allthough, the case about the trailers is not correct. Christiania had for some weeks a happening to set focus on the problem ; that young people are having a hard time with finding recidence in copenhagen. The trailers were dragged into christiania as a Happening to set focus on that problem. this happening were to last for a month or so. But, the danish "Property-Union" (don't know what to call it in english) interprented this as a new PERMANENT RECIDENCE in Christiania , witch was indeed NOT the case. The trailers were NOT meant as a new permanent recidence but as a happening as written above. The police dragged the trailers with them and left 8 people homeless, or short, they expanded the recidence-problems in copenhagen with 8 people.....
THIS HYPOCRISY MUST STOP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
denish racist and facist state
ori 12.Sep.2005 12:37
denmark in the last few years turn into the most racist and right wing place in europe
Message to christiana:
King Amdo 16.Sep.2005 16:32
STOP DEALING DRUGS....REAL HIPPYS SHARE.
EXODUS.
Copyright?
Nobber 20.Sep.2005 07:13
Sorry for not posting on the subject, but why the fuck is there a picture Copyrighted at the top of this article?
Its really not
imc-denmark-activist 23.Sep.2005 21:03
For all practical purposes its copyleft. However the photographer needs some payment as he is professional so he cannot afford commercial institutions use it without paying him a piece of th gold. In denmark our commercial medias take whatever they can from open projects so its kinda nescesarry to avoid profit being made from your stuff.