Audio - Interview with a terror suspect, David Mery

1 hr 30 min MP3 (32kbps 22,050 16bit mono)

David Mery popped into the rampART radio studio to talk to us about his terrifing night at the hands of Londons terror police...

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"In this show we talk to David Mery, a french national living in UK for the last 12 years. In July 2005, just one week after the police shot an killed an innocent man mistaken for a suicide bomber, David was stopped and searched by police using anti-terrorism legislation. They said he had been acting suspisiously because he wore a coat which they said was ‘too warm for the season’ and carried a bulky rucksac. Even after the bomb squad had checked his bag and found only a laptop, David was arrested and taken to a police station were they took samples of his DNA. His home was searched and computer equipment and documents seized before he was released without charge, but without his possesions..."

Some commentry from the blogsphere

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008630.html

http://www.cybaea.net/Journal/David_Mery.html

http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2005/09/21#1127367900

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/008045.html

http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2005/09/23/2179

http://www.edparsons.com/?p=99

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http://wehrlos.strain.at/space/showSnipVersions&snip=2005-09-22-innocent%20in%20london

http://www.maxideia.com/en/novidades/novidade.php?id=211

http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2005/09/processing_news.html#comment-9739089

http://technovia.typepad.com/technovia/2005/09/innocent_in_lon.html#comment-9739187

http://7gen.com/personal-blog-entry/2005sep231730/freedom/how-far-is-too-far-in-detaining-potential-suspects