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mark Kennedy was invited to Germany to infiltrate the anti-fascist movement

spook watch | 27.01.2011 11:21 | Repression | World

The Guardian have run a story, based on a spiegel.de article,  http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,741826,00.html (which credits indymedia.org.uk for it's photo!) which "Kennedy's involvement in criminal activity during his time in Germany highlights concerns that he was working as an agent provocateur and not just an observer of the activists." An extract of the article in the Guardian follows.

Germany's federal police chief, Jörg Ziercke, was forced to admit to MPs at the Bundestag that not only had Kennedy had a long-term lover in Berlin – in direct violation of a law forbidding police officers to have sexual relationships while undercover – but that he had been invited to Germany by the authorities to infiltrate the anti-fascist movement.

Ziercke also revealed that Kennedy, the Metropolitan police officer at the centre of a controversy over the infiltration of peaceful environmental groups across Europe, worked for three German states during at least five visits to the country between 2004 and 2009.

He said the agent committed at least two crimes, but the cases against him were dropped at the behest of German authorities who knew Kennedy's true identity.

Kennedy first broke the law during protests at Heiligendamm, the town near Rostock where the G8 meetings took place in 2007. He later committed arson, Der Spiegel said, during a demonstration in Berlin at which he set fire to containers.

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- Homepage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/26/mark-kennedy-german-bundestag

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related german video of undercover agent provocateur from G8

27.01.2011 20:54

this video shows G8 2007 protest, then the next video is of an undercover
agent provocateur cop who was telling people to throw stones. he has black
pully with "slipknot" patch at 2:23:
 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,742001,00.html

You can see in the video that activists "gave him back" to the cops, apparently as
they were not prepared to deal with him and people were very angry.

j


The whole of reality moving against them..

28.01.2011 10:45

Not all protest violence is instigated by the cop provacators, sometimes its (accent turning chinese) ELEMENTAL SHAMMANIC FORCE. Ideally though, the FORCE should enact community wide reality change directly.

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