G20 protestor jailed for 2 years
Lenartavicius | 02.12.2009 13:01 | G20 London Summit | Globalisation
The 22 year old anarchist apparently tried to set fire to the RBS building eventually managing to damage some window blinds - his actions were shown on TV reports accross the world and this publicity brought a focused attention of the state.
Supporters protested loudly as the Lithuanian protestor was taken down.
Supporters protested loudly as the Lithuanian protestor was taken down.
Lenartavicius
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This guy is a hero - address for letters of support?
02.12.2009 13:33
Is there a prison address for people to write to him? Assuming he does want letters of support that is.
anon
solidarity
02.12.2009 13:44
one of many
Deportation
02.12.2009 14:24
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/01/g20-protester-jailed-fire-bank
"Because Lenartavicius's sentence is more than 12 months, he faces automatic deportation."
It's not clear whether he would then be imprisoned in Lithuania...?
media watcher
automatic deportation
02.12.2009 14:35
N
...and actually don't think The Guardian is quite right
02.12.2009 14:37
This is pretty semantic, cos when they've applied the 'test' for EU ones, they will probably deport him anyway.
N
Oh yes!
02.12.2009 15:43
That's like, so wadical!
A modern day hero, I say.
Cynic
Contrast
02.12.2009 16:42
Opinion
Solidarity
02.12.2009 17:08
2 years - the poor man! Setting fire to blinds gets you two years, while the real criminals roam free still, it's a sad state of affairs. I think it's sad that the only militant action that went on at G20 wasn't even done by someone from Britain - we are pathetic. Not, of course, that it matters that he is Lithuanian, it just shows how the shroud of apathy infects us all, even us anarchists can't get militant!
The reaction to his action was quite farcical really, 'oh no! someone broke a window and set fire to a blind!!! terrorist! these evil, dangerous people are so dangerous and stupid!'
I have got to admit that I personally don't think it achieved much, but nevertheless I can't condemn him, and two years!
Solidarity to our anarchist comrade
Isabel
Idiot
02.12.2009 17:22
Real
kropotkin's cousin
02.12.2009 17:55
(if he didn't do it, its a shame he's doing bird for someone else though.....)
c la vie, eh?
MORE OF THE SAME!
matter of probably-factly
the fuckers
02.12.2009 20:59
Still, it's a warning not to wear distinctive clothes when masking up. Pigs are cunts and this kind of tracking is pretty low even for them, but then again this is the same day they murdered a bystander. We must remember that they ARE evil and there is nothing too low for them to stoop to.
Could have been much worse if they'd managed to make the "endangering life" charge stick - one of the Bradford insurgents got something like 20 years for setting fire to a pub - and in worst case, they have sometimes tried for indefinite sentences for arson though there might have to be 2 incidents for them to do it (some poor kid is serving this kind of preventive life sentence just for setting fire to two bins). Presumably he's not challenging deportation as he is not resident here and came here for the protest. And if he's been serving time since the G20 he could be out in a few months. He might also end up jailed in Lithuania instead of Britain because of prisoner repatriation deals. Seems fishy to me though. Can they stop an EU national travelling to another EU country? Goes against the spirit if not the letter of the abolition of internal borders. Though, probably a moot point unless he wants to come back.
PS someone please delete the pigshit spam which has appeared already, it adds nothing of use and is probably being put up by Netcu or BNP disinformation agents.
fuck pigs
how quickly people forget
02.12.2009 21:06
Anyone who sets fire to a building, especially a high tower, is a complete idiot who obviously doesn't care about the lifes of people he may endanger.
Every arsonist, after they have killed 50+ people, says something along the lines of:
"i didn't mean to kill anyone! I just wanted to cause some damage" whilst balling their eyes out in tears. Thats why he got 2 years, not for setting fire to some blinds, but setting fire to a building without giving a shit who he was going to kill.
Max