More waste to Gorleben as thousands resist
Diet Simon - 16.11.2006 05:05
After a 58-hour rail and truck run through France and Germany another 175 metric tonnes of returning German nuclear waste has reached a storage hall in the northern village of Gorleben.
Robin Wood activists stop the train.
Policeman pushing people backwards out of trees.
Organisers say around 7,000 were at a rally, police claim 3,000.
Bedrock resister, Marianne Fritzen, 82, read her speech.
The tenth such consignment was protested and delayed many times in both countries by thousands of anti-nuclear activists and guarded by 16,000 German police with horses, dogs, helicopters and water cannon.
Along the last 20 kms of roads from the railhead at Dannenberg to the dump compound in Gorleben 2,000 activists several times held up the truck convoy which moved at night.
The local opposition umbrella group reports police injuring 146 protesters, 11 of whom needed hospital treatment, four for serious head injuries. About a hundred demonstrators were detained during the night.
Protesters know they can’t prevent the consignments, but aim to make them as expensive as possible as a wake-up call to the public and politicians. Policing costs about 50 million euros for each at a time when public money is scarce in Germany.
The full story with pictures is at  http://germany.indymedia.org/2006/11/161877.shtml.
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