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Statement by the participants frustrated "pirated streetparty" in St.Petersburg

no_eat | 01.05.2009 14:30 | Repression

1st of May in St. Petersburg police and OMON against their own laws broke up a legal demonstration. Pillar participants «pirate streetparty»: anarchist, anti-fascists, musicians and young people, who care about freedom of cyberspace - all those who met mark May Day with the sound of music, surrounded by police. OMON, beating, dragged people into a specially fitted buses.



1st of May in St. Petersburg police and OMON against their own laws broke up a legal demonstration. Pillar participants «pirate streetparty»: anarchist, anti-fascists, musicians and young people, who care about freedom of cyberspace - all those who met mark May Day with the sound of music, surrounded by police. OMON, beating, dragged people into a specially fitted buses. It was preceded by long negotiations the organizers of demonstration with the police officers, which contradict each other, called the demonstrators built in one, then in another place Ligovsky prospect.
It should be noted that, despite the consistent criticism of the state and its institutions, the anarchists have done everything, to May Day passed peacefully: registered and agreed to their demo. It participated in a demonstration vehicle with a sound system in the convoy had been agreed with the Committee on issues of legality, law and order and security of the city. Organizers were in place and followed by all, even the most absurd, the police instructions. Moreover, ordinary and not ordinary employees, according to witnesses, no control of the situation could not agree with each other. All, as always: law enforcement agencies engaged in the sole, which can - beaten and detained not resisting citizens. Now the police, justifying, disseminates information that prevented a antifascist's provocation against Nazis and nationalists from DPNI (movement against illegal immigration). At the same time, news agencies reported, before the demonstration was delayed about twenty «nationaliste» with knives and weapons traumatic. Who was preparing a provocation against anyone?
And why city officials are primarily afraid of those who have expressed antifascist views? It should only suspect that the youth has antifascist views and now, OMON, police beatings and detention. And the Nazis from DPNI give to procession on Nevsky Prospekt. If, however, avoided provocation, why the whole one hundred detainees charged street crossing in the wrong place? And all, «improperly shifted the street», photographed, illegally taking fingerprints and questioned. And the police officers who came to the office, seemingly indistinguishable from the Nazis street - the same «fashion», and the same frill.

The government keeps us for idiots? With the police trying to convey to the citizens? It may be that the law for police officers is not valid? Or that people who do not wish
again and again to be victims, should forget about the laws?

It seems that this was the last attempt to hold a legal demonstration in St. Petersburg.

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