Monday:
After a very pleasant afternoon admiring the architecture of the Paris office of the communist party - I can't find any piccies online, but this is the sort of thing Niemeyer does - it was home time.
A tense atmosphere soon built on the train, not least from the fact that all the seats allotted to the 100 or so activists had been TRIPLE booked by Eurostar, leaving a lot of people standing for two-and-a-half hours. It quickly went around that there was a large police and special branch presence awaiting the train at Waterloo, who would be filming and photographing everyone disembarking.
The British ESF contingent struck up a rendition of "We all live in a terrorist regime, a terrorist regime, a terrorist regime" to rouse their spirits.
There was no way of ducking the cameras, we had to grin and bear it.
After a very pleasant afternoon admiring the architecture of the Paris office of the communist party - I can't find any piccies online, but this is the sort of thing Niemeyer does - it was home time.
A tense atmosphere soon built on the train, not least from the fact that all the seats allotted to the 100 or so activists had been TRIPLE booked by Eurostar, leaving a lot of people standing for two-and-a-half hours. It quickly went around that there was a large police and special branch presence awaiting the train at Waterloo, who would be filming and photographing everyone disembarking.
The British ESF contingent struck up a rendition of "We all live in a terrorist regime, a terrorist regime, a terrorist regime" to rouse their spirits.
There was no way of ducking the cameras, we had to grin and bear it.
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yep...
18.11.2003 14:39
And the security returning to the country serious. Several video cameras catching everyone as they entered the country.
Two passport checks, and numberous people pulled to one side for a chat. I do hope the US Citizen just behind me - who was pulled to one side - got through... evidently they don't trust those Americans ;-)
watched
Call to any who were filmed to write an official complaint to the police?
18.11.2003 17:57
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