the state tries to justifice the house raids with § 129a, which is used to accuse people of "forming a terrorist group".

with these raids the state tries to smash the whole infrastructure of the anti- g 8 mobilisation.

the raids were in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen.


here are links to reports on indymedia germany (deutsch:

 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/175999.shtml
 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176001.shtml
 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176006.shtml
 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176009.shtml

Berlin:

 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176000.shtml
 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176008.shtml
 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176010.shtml
 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176011.shtml

Bremen

 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176013.shtml

yahoo.de says, 800 police were involved in the raids.

See  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370202.html for details. Please include this in the feature article too. :)

Hello, here a small statement of the SO36.NET concerning (meanwhile) the searches of yesterday also our server area. the umstände briefly in summary: at 8.00 o'clock (a.m.!) of the of yesterday (9.5.07) rückten on Wednesdays in the entire federal territory more than 900 beschäftige of the öffentlichen service and simultaneous owner/inside a police mark out, in order to optimize in the apron in June taking place G8-gipfels in holy dam, the mobilization. as was to be expected, in the long run all have themselves at the preparation the accompanying protestchoreographie of the summit took part - from except parliamentary civilian-social ranges of über not government organizations and radical left, church and unionized organizations to inside in the parliamentary mad house this interference into the most characteristic affairs prays. we möchten on the einschlägigen publication organs refer to, if further need for information exists - nevertheless you a bitten from the search resolution signatory by the less ehrwürdigen judge elevation controversy do not withhold: "... with (...) gewalttätigen actions the forthcoming world we shank summit (g8) in more frühsommer the 2007 in holy dam substantially to stören or prevent these criminal offences are for it intended, the society and economic system existing in the Federal Republic of Germany too erschüttern and können in particular the international position of the Federal Republic of Germany as verlässlicher partners in the group of the eight most important restaurant nations substantially schädigen." exactly - we find good. concretely to the process of the search: over approx. 8,15 the office floor got, into also our server area is visits from approx. 10 readiness policemen and likewise approx. 10 Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations officials (more büronutzer could them briefly before the break-down by force tür öffnen) around approx. 8,50 o'clock we could enter the räume in anwaltschaftlicher company. at this time already for 3 Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations officials stood in the server area and had as the first measure the InterNet connection at the cable cut as the second measure deactivated them the installed webcam as them the current supply too these likewise interrupted on the servers had them not yet accessed obviously ruled them itself still in the ' orientation phase '. the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations technicians required the publication of the root passwörter and full of us accessed all systems. after one it calls off unserseits on this demand was announced that they carry the entire racks forward ausräumen in this case and. after intervention of the present anwältin and conversation with the meanwhile present public prosecutor it was announced that their interest of determination aims at ' more postfächer '. in the further negotiation process this was prezisiert to the 22 email addresses listed in the search resolution, which were assigned altogether to 10 persons there the email addresses became zusätzlich likewise 2 mailing lists designated in the resolution and/webdirs requires 7 URLS. we have ourselves in this situation für the publication of the präzisierten and in the resolution decided surely aufgeführten data a decision between plague and cholera - nevertheless latter hätte seizes to follows and thus giving up almost sämtlicher data. after this decision the present Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations technician of us got one root-brightly made available their more bring along portable/computer should now in the net be integrated, around the data by scp to copy this placed itself für längere time as grö�eres problem für the technicians Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations after these manuals read and the meaning of netmasks copied they experienced the required and packed more postfächer on their computer (would list required publication erhöhte itself in the process that in another place stattgefundenden searches around three further addresses.) after the difficulties in things ifconfig and netmask paints itself two further repeated, they copied the required data of the mailing lists and webdirectories likewise. während the entire period of copying and working we looked the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations expert more über the shoulder and können guarantee that except the data designated in the resolution no further were copied. the persons concerned will/became informed by us. greet from the SO36.NET Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations attendance [ de ] loves people, this morning, Wednesday, 9 May of 8.00 to 17,00 o'clock got the SO36.NET - and thus possibly also ' you ' - in society from country wide approximately 40 scanned locations - Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations [ TM ]/Meckenheim visited. specific data were copied (maildirs/listen/webdirs). we promise you more exact information, as soon as we talk something time to had. up to then - do not forget: fight g8! -- [ EN ] dear friends, this morning, tuesday May 9th 8am ton of 5pm SO36.NET - and therefore maybe ' YOU ' - got A visit from federal German policy, as incoming goods have been raided like 40 OTHER locations. specific DATA which copied: maildirs/listen/webdirs incoming goods promise more accurate information, as soon as incoming goods have had some time ton talc about it. until then, don't forget: fight g8! greet/greetings - SO36.NET ... take care emergency ton of GET sucket into /dev/null! contact: support webmail: click!

There is a video at the German Evening News (Tagesschau):

 http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID6717248_NAV_REF1,00.html

 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370241.html

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Video of the riots in Hamburg

 http://www.faz.net/s/Rub27A5E3F0CC314C939F977A6B935F898C/Doc~E8989D04655C441FEBE3F8B2A3C5BC2C7~ATpl~Ecommon~SMed.html

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The solidarity demonstrations in Managua (mentioned above with link to  http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/176151.shtml) took place one week before the Mai 9 raids. Turing the night from May 3 to May 4, 2007 activists wrote "Resistencia Internacional" and "NO-G8" beside the entrance of the embassy.

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