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Germany: police threatens 16-year old activist with weapon

smash capitalism! | 08.11.2004 20:47 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

- protests against the tran with nuclear waste rolling to germany
- after the death of the 23-year old frenchman situation seems to escalate
- in the night streetfights between police and protesters
- today: german police threatens 16-year old girl with weapon


1:47 pm

A policemen this morning threatened a 16-year-old girl with his pistol. She was on a tractor in a field near Tollendorf. Earlier three tractors were pursued by police vehicles. When one of the tractors tried to lift a round bale of straw with its fork, the policemen from Aachen lost their nerve. They had been tasked to cut the up the bale. One of the policemen stood in front of the tractor in which sat only 16-year-old Nadine and her friend. The policeman drew his pistol and pointed it at the driver’s cabin. The girl is still in shock. “All I could still see was the weapon and the man’s eyes.” Subsequently one of the other tractors was also threatened by a police clearing vehicle, rammed in the side an damaged.

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  1. Police pointing guns at kids. — Blue Zappa