Czech Media claims bogus independent journalists organising anti-nato protests
newsflash | 19.11.2002 13:10
Ceske Noviny newspaper (a large czech daily) has published an article saying that foreign radicals are in prague posing as independent media, not writing articles but organising the protests...
This claim echoes that made by Italian authorities just after the genoa anti-G8 protests last year in Italy, when they said Indymedia itself (and GSF - genoa social forum) was in league with the 'black block' and used this claim to partly justify the (now very discredited) brutal raid on the GSF / Indymedia offices, and the Diaz school where over 60 people were hospitalised.
Below is the czech text and url link - and english translation should be prepared soon.
Don't hate the media
Be the Media!
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protesty proti NATO v praze pripravuji cizinci
by cesky noviny 4:17am Tue Nov 19 '02
www.ceskenoviny.cz/view-id.php4?vid=100081
Policie neveri nezavislim zurnalistum
PRAHA 19. listopadu (CTK) - Demonstrace proti summitu Severoatlanticke aliance pripravuji v Praze zahranicni aktiviste, kteri maji zkusenosti z velkych protestnich akci ve svete, pise dnesni Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD). "Vime minimalne o patnacti cizincich, kteri se uz od prazdnin pohybuji v Praze," rekl MfD duveryhodny policejni zdroj. List ma k dispozici fotografie sestice nejaktivnejsich.
"Napriklad American E.N. se zucastnil podle nasich kolegu ze Spojenych statu nasilnych demonstraci v Seattlu. Objevil se take v Praze pred dvema lety pri protestech proti konferenci Mezinarodniho menoveho fondu," uvedl policista.
Krome Americanu maji v Cesku pobyvat i extremiste z Polska a Velke Britanie. "Nekteri se vydavaji za nezavisle novinare. Místo psani clanku vsak cile chystaji protestni akce. Komunikuji jak s oficialnimi ceskymi organizatory z platformy AntiNATO, tak s militantnimi radikaly z rad Antifasisticke akce," doplnil zdroj.
Odpurci NATO otevreli v pondeli podle MfD a dnesniho Prava centrum v hale CKD Trakce v Praze-Vysocanech, kde protesty pripravuji. Podobne centrum zridili pred dvema lety v prazske Libni i organizatori protestu proti zasedani svetovych financníku.
Dvoudenniho prazskeho summitu NATO se zucastní vrcholni politici 19 clenskych zemi NATO a dalsich 27 statu zapojenych do programu Partnerstvi pro mir. Do Prahy prijede vice nez 2000 oficialnich hostu a 3000 novinaru. Policie ocekava protesty asi 12.000 lidi, proti kterym chce ministerstvo vnitra nasadit stejny pocet policistu.
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