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Gothenburg: Finnish Ya basta statement and film footage

repost | 15.06.2001 10:14

Alt/indy film from Gothenburg Sweden yesterday (14.06.01):
 http://62.142.22.163:8080/ramgen/katalyytti/hvit.rm
4.48 mins: police surrounding convergence space and resulting events...

A release from Finnish Ya Basta

To Civil Society

On Thursday the police intruded our community's area in Gothenburg. The riot squad besieged our area with riot shields, dogs, horses, helicopters and containers. The police threatened to attack the rooms where we lived.

Our aim was to defend our area with methods that are as nonviolent as possible. After a long discussion with other people living in the Hvitfeldska area, we strived to break out from the besieged area. We used only defensive equipment like personal armour, helmets and shields.

We did 8 attempts to break through the police lines. No violence was committed from our side. But the police attacked us with open violence. They rode horses at full speed into our crowd and beat people up with batons. They even used dogs, and one person was bitten on his face.

We cannot judge people who threw stones at the police, because they were defending their own lives.

We have seen the same happen in Chiapas, Malaysia, Columbia and numerous other countries, where army and the police are at war with people. Now we see this also in Europe. We cannot consider this as anything else than a declaration of war from European Union against its own citizens.

We accuse the police of rioting, brutal violence, repression of citizens basic rights like the freedom to express their opinions. The police who are responsible of all these crimes must made accountable of their action.

Gothenburg 14/06/2001
Ya Basta - for humanity against neoliberalism

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Gothenburg: fighting RK at Convergence 14.06

15.06.2001 11:59

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The Swedish police has itself decided for a strategy of the provocation and aggression...

This morning the Convergence Centre, which changes over hvitfeldska school, supplied by the city Goeteburg, from approximately 300 policemen, became.
This occurred approximately at the same time with the arrival George W Bushs in Gortheburg, and with the fact was officially justified that the there stopping should search itself for weapons.
With this internal message the police met a main nerve of the anti-European Union summits of resistance organization here in Goeteborg, since this school was point of start and info. center for the activists. Here the Workshops and sat here also the Volxkueche Rantanplan should take place.
At the point in time of the conversion were there about 1000 activists, among other things a large part of the Ya Basta! Group. The police required that all on weapons be examined lets themselves, at least was this an official assertion. It is in addition, worth mentioning that humans met there wanted to go on an announced and authorized demonstration,
which George W Bush wanted to go to of Bush ", whereby mooning translated as much as " the naked ass show " meant, in Goeteborg with the slogan " for mooning. To prevent humans met in the school darann and to justify by provocation challenged " excesses " subsequently. Likewise it is rather simple protective clothing - how it is e.g. carried by the Ya Bastas, since they transferred their target of the direct confrontation with the staatsmacht on force-free type want, what requires a certain protection from the so-called direct obligation of the Staatsbuettel - as passive armament to define.
Only starting from 14:00 o'clock the police the individual search began to release itself submitted. Always against it came to fights between activists, which fight for their protectingness, thus from the boiler to become released wanted, without delivering itself that obviously arbitrarily and repressive concerning staatsmacht. On the page stones of vermummter activists follow,
on the other one dog relays, vermummte Riotcops and mounted police, were driven which were characterised by particularly brutal behavior. Thus it rode in the middle with attacks into the quantity.
succeeded again and again this unite. Then the police began to set up Kontainer around the Convergence Centre to encircle and immure it quasi to measure and arrest people again and again. Starting from approximately 15:00 o'clock the enclosed activists tried to break through again and again closed, failed however again and again because of the dog relays and mounted ones,
however again and again, e.g. from Kontainer at Kontainer branching the escape succeeded to smaller groups. Against approximately 18:00 o'clock a further break-through attempt becomes, at the point the Ya Basta! followed encircled by the AFA, whereupon the police the campus storms brutally, approx. brings this national hero act hurt one hundred with itself, some activists withdraws themselves however into the building and defends the Convergence center further. Whom that does not succeed, arrested and also removed penalties. The specification of reasons precipitates to speak likewise the right a lawyer. The vehicles, those on the yard to only mention in order it again by the city Goeteborg provided school, were deactivated, of the police are broken-struck, devitrified.
To the evacuation of the prisoners it can the other regulations and fundamental rights be said at present only that the Swedish police of use so-called probe regulation can make, out of strength settzt. This is during the summit in strength, and permits the police persons, from whom she assumes that they want to commit a srafbare action, this from the place of this potetiellen action to remove, it thus simply said into the Pampa karrt. However the police also a ex-Miliaergelaende has available outside from Goeteborg, which " seizes " around the 1000 persons. At present only assumptions are possible.
Against 19:00 o'clock the " BUSH IS NOT WELCOME " demonstration finally begins, at which to participate the including one does not permit. When however it gets around itself there that the Convergence center had undertaken an even attempt to escape, which tries struck back and stattdesseb now the police the center storms, solve itself more and more Vermummte from the demo over the center to assistance to hurry. About thousand activists attack the police in the consequence, the fights last on...
The police has itself apparent concerning the summit from the situation of the numerical inferiority opposite the protesting, 8000 policemen gives it in completely Sweden, between 10000 and 15000 counterdemonstrants expected, out decided for a strategy of the provocation and aggression over as much as possible as fast as possible to arrest or to determine be able. Whether this calculation comes up will show, and how far the beautiful banknote of the " right state " thereby will receive can, the next days...



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