Politie tacktieken tijdens de G8(EN) I H8 G8 - 07.01.2007 20:52
Voor iedereen die maar ook overweegt om naar de G8 te gaan in Duitsland, is dit zeer belangrijk om te lezen, ondanks dat het twee enorme grote artikelen zijn. De eerste is minder belangrijk als de twee. De tweede vertelt over je 'legal status' die je gaat krijgen in Duitsland, ook verteld het de repressie die je kan verwachte van de Duitse overheid G8 Summit 2007 in Heiligendamm The area of Heiligendamm and its surroundings will be divided into two security zones. * The inner cordon comprises the grounds of the Grand Hotel Kempinski and is within the jurisdiction of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation. Residents of Heiligendamm will not be allowed to enter this zone. The implementation of this zone will be short before the start of the Summit. * The outer cordon will be a security fence, erected and maintained by the police. The fence will be situated on state property. Private estates will only be touched as minimal as possible. Within the next weeks police officers will get in touch with the land owners concerned to find solutions for the use of their property. The exact course of the fence is to be seen here: The start of the erection campaign will be on 2 January 2007, finish is planned for 1 May 2007. The above mentioned zones will be implemented after having finished the construction work. Safety precautions within the cordon will be limited to an indispensable extend. Those who will be authorized to enter the zones will be listed and provided with access passes. Authorized persons will be: residents of the Ostseebad Heiligendamm, owners and users of the premises within the cordon, businesses, employees, emergency and nursing services , registered visitors and guests as well as other people concerned. There will be two check points for entering the outer cordon. * Checkpoint "Rennbahn" is situated in the parking area by the race course. At this checkpoint only pedestrians may pass. Vehicles are to be parked at the site. There will be no public transport within the cordon. Therefore the police will provide shuttle transport. * Checkpoint " Hinter Bollhagen" is situated by the Road 12 on an area near the waterworks. This checkpoint can be passed with vehicles. During the days of the security operation searches of the vehicles will be necessary. Therefore you should be prepared for longer waiting periods. --- Who will be responsible for the security during the G8 Summit? There will be three forces to provide security - the Federal Police M-V, supported by police officers from different States of Germany, the Federal Police and the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation. Their jurisdiction is divided into different areas, according to local and factual states of affairs. However, there will be close co-operation. Will there be special security zones around the venue? Yes , there will be a fence around Heiligendamm. Its length will come to ca.12-13 km. Only authorized persons will be allowed to enter this outer cordon. The grounds of the Grand Hotel Kempinski will be the boundaries of the inner cordon. Access to this area will not be possible for residents. Around Heiligendamm there will not be any other places concerned. Will the Molli-train run between Kühlungsborn and Bad Doberan during the Summit? Will there be a stop in Heiligendamm? Train service for the public will not be provided during the time of the Summit. Which restrictions to traffic are planned? The traffic management scheme has not been finished by now. So, at the moment, we cannot give any statement . Where will traffic restrictions apply? There will probably occur restrictions in the towns around Heiligendamm (Kühlungsborn, Bad Doberan). There might be as well restrictions within the Hanseatic City of Rostock and around Laage airport. Will there be restrictions concerning the air traffic at Laage airport? There will be restrictions which cannot be defined at the moment. Will there be restrictions for maritime traffic on the Baltic Sea? There will be security zones at sea. Their extend and range has not been decided yet. Where will occur restrictions according to protests? The Hanseatic City of Rostock has already received applications for demonstrations. It has not been decided yet which of them will take place and which locations will be concerned. Who will be liable for possible damage to private and municipal property owing to the G8 Summit, e.g. caused by protesters? Basically the causation principle applies. The responsible party has to pay for the damage, which includes bodily harm as well as damage to property. Claims according to civil law have to be sued. Police and justice are preparing for prompt legal proceedings against potential troublemakers and offenders. Will there be special protection for certain shops against the background of the expected protests? It's the task of the police to take protective measures for public safety and order. In case of any disturbance or breaches of the law, the police will take effective and appropriate action. Will commuters be allowed to go about their daily business and enter and leave Bad Doberan without problems? Commuters will have access to the town of Bad Doberan. However, restrictions and checkpoints are to be expected. Will there be restrictions to tourism in the nearby villages around Heiligendamm? Around Heiligendamm restrictions due to checkpoints, road closures and transportation of police units have to be expected. In case of restrictions, who will be liable for compensation of losses? According to German law restrictions have to be accepted in principle. The protection of public safety and order regarding a safe and secure summit are the main priority. Claims for compensation are only justified in special cases. Such cases would involve sovereign encroachment on somebody´s live, health or personal freedom. --- […] Who is an entitled person and how are these seized? Entitled are inhabitants of the Baltic Sea bath Heiligendamm as well as owners and users of possessing properties within the outside safety shut-off position possess. Further manufacturing, employees, workers, emergency and hospital services, courier services and suppliers are coverered Holidays guests and announced visitors of the inhabitants are also entitled persons. The determination and collection of the circle of acquaintances mentioned will be done by the police. You as an entitled person can support the police by being in connection with the police over the citizen telephone under 0180-5010766 (0.12 €/min) or by E-Mail under buegerinfo@kavala.mv-regierung.de Separate documents of identification for the entitled and their vehicles are provided . Within the outside security zone a controlled person and vehicle traffic issue will take place. When should controls be expected? The building of the fence is to take place in the time from January to May 2007. First control measures should be expected aftercompletion, which will be intensified in the course of the time. Access controls into the range of the outside security zone begin after current planning conditions at the latest at the weekend before the summit. Do motor vehicles have to be removed for the time of the summit in Heiligendamm from public places, roads and ways? There will be ranges, in which for the time of the summit no motor vehicles are allowed. These ranges are however not yet accurately specified. Can I drive with my private passenger car? If you belong to the right circle of entitled persons. They must be open for controls and searches. Due to this issue the police recommends you to use the large parking lot at the racecourse. A shuttle oscillates - to traffic up to the locality Heiligendamm Where are entrance possibilities and boards of control situated? First board of control (course) is the parking lot range of the area of the gallopprace course. This range is passable by foot or with the bicycle, motor vehicles can locally be parked. A shuttle for you oscillates between the locality and the board of control. Within the outside security zone there will be no public suburban traffic. Second board of control is situated by the locality Hinter Bollhagen at the Landesstrasse 12. The board of control is passable with vehicles. However longer control times should be expected. Reasons for this are necessary searches of vehicles and persons. What is when short term changes concerning the private occupations of the state guests occur ? (Riding a bicycle or Jogging) Then temporal restrictions can result in a short term blockage . We would inform the citizens about it.in case of knowing it in advance .Be prepared to accept the fact that while driving "bumper to bumper" property access could be closed for a short time and shuttle traffic does not take place in this time. Do bicycles,baby carriages or other mobile articles have to be removed from public places and ways? There will be ranges where these should be removed. These ranges have not been designated . Will the Molli operate between Kühlungsborn and Bad Doberan with stop in Heiligendamm during the summit? The Molli is not at the disposal to course for the public during the summit . Which traffic restrictions will be applied? There is still no appropriate traffic concept , no statements can be made . Where will traffic restrictions apply? There will probably occur restrictions in the towns around Heiligendamm (Kühlungsborn, Bad Doberan). There might be as well restrictions within the Hanseatic City of Rostock and around Laage airport. Can Hoteliers, pension owners, owners of vacation homes provide reservations, which refer to the period of the summit and that are now inquired and booked? Yes, but it must be focused on the fact that persons, who make reservations for the meeting period must expect strong restrictions. Nevertheless promptly firm reservations can be made. How is the situation with the basket chairs ? How does it stand with a bath prohibition? Bath prohibition will be within the range of Heiligendamm. Exact times are still open, in the time of the G8 of summit setting up of basket chairs will be not possible. Are there impairments for my business (trade) concern? We want to inform the citizens not at short notice but on a long-term basis. We want to remain constant in contact and solve problems together. It is not yet regulated which impairments should be expected. I am a hunter. May I go hunting in the forests around Heiligendamm? Within the outside security zone a chase will not be possible. In which distance the chase will be possible outside of this zone, is not yet clarified. Are there closing hours during the time of the summit? Closing hours are not planned. --- Contract to build the technical barrier awarded - PR06 Contract to build the technical barrier awarded In Schwerin yesterday evening the State Parliament approved the supplementary budget amounting to 12.5 million Euros for the G8 Summit 2007 in Heiligendamm. The construction of a technical barrier to protect the world economic summit taking place in June next year will be pre-financed by means of this sum. The company of building and real estate MV (BBL) authorized by the police force could now award the contract to erect the complete technical barrier. MZS Metall-, Zaun-, Stahlbau GmbH & Co. KG from Bargeshagen (county Bad Doberan) got the contract to build the technical barrier measuring about 12,5 km in length. The technical barrier - a 2, 50 m high steel-lattice fence - will be equipped with an additional protection preventing people from climbing over or crawling under it. At the side the steel-lattice fence will be fixed to aboveground overlying concrete elements. According to the present planning stage the technical barrier will run as follows: Jemnitzschleuse - along the Mühlenfließ - Großer Wohld - gallop racecourse - Bollhäger Forst - Hinter Bollhagen - Kleiner Wohld - Kinderstrand The police force will set up two checkpoints - the first one at the gallop racecourse and the second one at the waterworks in Hinter Bollhagen. Mostly the fence will run on national property. If this is not possible, private properties have to be included, too. Police officers and representatives of the company BBL have already visited the owners involved to get into conversation with them. Binding license agreements will be signed soon. The head of the operations, LPD Knut Abramowski, is confident that the construction of the fence will be finished by May 2007. "The technical barrier is a significant aspect in the safety concept of the police and meets the international safety requirements." Subsequent to the G8 Summit the technical barrier will be completely removed. --- The Special Structural Organization (BAO) Kavala has moved into the new premises - PR5 On Monday 6th November 2006 the Special Structural Organization (BAO) of the police directorate Rostock moved into its new premises situated in the real estate Waldeck (near the Hanseatic City of Rostock) in order to plan, prepare and organize the G8 Summit 2007 in Heiligendamm. Already on 1st September 2005 the Ministry of Interior M-V instructed the police directorate Rostock to assume the entire operational control concerning the G8 Summit 2007 in Heiligendamm. Consequently, Leitender Polizeidirektor Knut Abramowski set up a Special Structural Organization (BAO) in the police directorate Rostock, named it "Kavala" standing for "White city on the sea" and started working together with four staff members. First of all, it is the duty of the police force to protect the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm and its members as well as to guarantee peaceful demonstrations and assemblies. However, if there are violent riots they take rigorous action. The police force, nevertheless, make every endeavour to limit detractions from public life being in store for the inhabitants of Heiligendamm and the adjoining communities to an indispensable extent. "Preparing an operation of such dimension requires both precise planning, personnel and organizational decisions which have to be made carefully", said commanding officer Knut Abramowski emphasizing the significance and extent of the police operation. The staff of BAO Kavala entrusted with the responsibility for the preparation has just moved into the real estate Waldeck which has been used by the riot police M-V since 1991. One of the two blocks was renovated and equipped with new technology and logistics. Now the working conditions for the employees are more pleasant in the offices and conference rooms. The other block will be renovated in the next months, too. The second standby squad of the riot police M-V moved to Rostock Schmarl. At present 126 police officers of the entire Federal State Police M-V are working with great commitment and motivation in order to make sure things run smoothly during the summit in June 2007 next year. From December 2006 further territorial and functional operational sectors concentrating on the venues respectively places of special security interest, such as Heiligendamm, the security of air traffic and at sea as well as traffic-related measures and assemblies will be established. The field of activities includes drawing up concepts and orders, requesting tactical personnel from the entire federal territory, the equipping with technical command and operational resources, providing technology as well as motor vehicles, informing the public and taking care of the media. Since April 2006 the operational sector press work and public relations accompanying the operation has been working on informing the population as early and extensive as possible. Commanding officer Knut Abramowskiemphasizes, "that the police want to deal fairly and qualified with the population who should be appreciate for the restrictions. In this connection it is very important to keep up contacts with the residents and to deal with the problems of each individual citizen. We want to be accessible that's why we again put our faith in the citizen hotline, the "Internet guard" and our homepage - as handled during the visit of the US President G.W. Bush in Stralsund." By now more than 5,000 accesses to our homepage www.polizei.mvnet.de could be registered. The press office in Waldeck can be reached in the following way: media hotline: 0180 - 50 10 767 citizen hotline: 0180 - 50 10 766 fax line: 038208 - 888 13 99 email: presse@kavala.mv-regierung.de Police powers and presence for the G8 summit What to expect and how to protect yourself In 2006, the regional parliament of the German state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern (hereafter M-V), where the G8 will take place, passed a new Security and Public Order Act which increased the powers of the police during protests. Officially, the Act was passed in the name of the fight against terrorism and organised crime, but as the timing of this legislation as well as Genoa, Gleneagles and the World Cup have shown, these legal and executive powers are predominantly used to police demonstrations at summits and football events. They include: red zones, restriction of movement, huge police presence, police encircling of demonstration, mass arrests and arbitrary banning order issued against individuals from public places for the duration of the protests. Given this proliferation of police instruments and strategies, it is important that anyone planning to come to the G8 protests informs him/herself and takes these into account when preparing actions, travel and communication before, during and after the summit. Not all of the following police practices will necessarily be applied (to you); exaggerated security laws are also literally a power game, so please do not be intimidated by the listbelow. Past summits, from Genoa to Gleneagles, have shown that successful protest actions are always possible, even under martial-law-type police presence.At the end of this text you will find various guides on how to dealcreatively with police repression and what you should (not) do in case youget arrested. Please use the links at the end of this page to the various self-help and solidarity booklets in English. The symbol § following each heading in the text below refers to the relevant Article of the Security and Public Order Act from M-V, detailing the relevant measure. 1. Identity checks (§29) ... mean that you have to show your identity document (ID card, passport). They can be carried out by the police "to prevent immanent danger in a particular situation". As the police can decide what an "immanent danger" is,identity checks have become a routine measure, particularly at police control spots, "hot spots", areas around hospitals, official buildings and on public transport systems. If you cannot show an identity card, you will be taken tothe police station. 2. Fingerprinting etc. (§31) The verification of an alleged culprit's identity and collection of personaldata through photo and fingerprinting is called 'Erkennungsdienstliche Behandlung' in Germany. According to existing law, this includes: handprints, fingerprints, photos, measuring external features and making voice recordings. However, the police usually only take photos and make fingerprints. 3. Interrogations and the information you have to provide (§28) As in the whole of Germany, persons have to give the following and NO OTHER information to the police: - first and last name, - date of birth - place of birth - place of residency - nationality. If you refuse to give this information you'll be fined. 4. Police stop and search (§27a) The police can stop persons and vehicles - within 30 km of the external border (e.g. in Heiligendamm and Rostock) - at international travel spots (e.g. train stations and airports) - and "for the preventative fight against crime of considerable importance" (e.g. breach of the police, bodily harm etc.) 5. Searching persons (§53-54) The police can search you in order to confiscate objects, giving the reason that the search is intended to protect yourself (!) or the police officer, the definition of 'protection' is at the discretion of the police. They are allowed to search on your body, through your clothes as well as all other objects worn by you, such as rucksacks. Usually, the search can only be carried out by a same-sex officer, unless there is an "immanent danger", in which case any officer can carry out the search. 6. Searching objects (§57-58) Pretty much all objects carried by you, near you or near official buildings can be searched. 5. Banning orders (§52) This is an annoying measures which the police can use widely. In M-V, orders that ban people from certain places can be given with regard to a place, for a region within a local authority or even for a whole district. They can last up to 10 weeks. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT BANNING ORDERS WILL BE PASSED FOR A WHOLE CITY SUCH AS BAD DOBERAN DURING THE G8. The order does not have to be given in writing, the only restriction is that the banning order cannot restrict access to your own home. If you do not follow the order, you can be taken into police custody. 6. Police custody (§55-56) Next to issuing banning orders, the police can take people into custody if they "are in a condition that is visibly outside their own control" (e.g. drunk) or if there is "an immanent danger for security or public order" (which can be very widely defined indeed). So-called preventative arrests can be made to "prevent" criminal offences, also if a person invites others to commit these in form of BANNERS or FLYERS. They can also arrest you if you are carrying weapons or OBJECTS that the police believe can be used as weapons or for committing criminal offences. Further, MINORS (YOUNGER THAN 18) can be taken into custody if they have "eluded the person in charge of the custody" and be "transferred to the youth welfare office" (in German: 'Jugendamt'). 7. Access to property and house searches (§59-60) As a preventative public order measure, the police can enter your home. Officially, they need a search warrant issued by a judge, but in case of "immanent danger" this judicial sanction can be given retrospectively. Duringsearches, you have the right to - be present (in every room, so they can only search one room at a time in your presence) - be told the reason for the search - receive instructions by the police about your available legal remedies - receive a signed notice by the police IF YOU ASK FOR IT, detailing the responsible authority, reason, time and date of the search as well as all the names of all persons present. N.B. BY LAW, YOU DO NOT (AND SHOULD NOT) SIGN ANYTHING YOURSELF 8. Informants, undercover officers, observation, secret surveillance (§33) The use of informants (people who are not the police but are paid to pass on information to them) and undercover officers (police who use a false identity to find out about political scenes) is legal in M-V. The police can also put you under observation, follow you around and use undercover observation technology (microphones, cameras). 9. Equipment and weapons of the police (§102) Police "equipment" includes in particular shackles, water cannons, technical barriers, dogs, horses, vehicles, gas (CN, CS and pepperspray) and explosives (which may not be used against persons). Weapons include batons, pistols,revolvers, shotguns and machine guns. The typical weapons used are batons, but Gothenburg and Genoa have shown that the state is also prepared to use guns. 10. Police officers duty to identify themselves? (--) Nope: in M-V there is no obligation for the police to identify themselves, which makes it difficult to link criminal acts to specific police officers. New police powers introduced for the G8 in June 2006: 11. CCTV (camera) surveillance of public places (§32) ...is legal if it is necessary for the police to fulfil its duties or at places where at least 2 criminal acts (ANY offence) have taken place. Therefore, EXPECT TO BE FILMED. 12. Automatic car number plate recognition (§43a) Will take place, in particular at motorway exits and slip roads, access roads etc. EXPECT YOUR CAR NUMBER PLATE TO BE RECORDED IF YOU ENTER THE PROTEST REGION IN A CAR. The regional government has announced that it wants to collect this information to COMPARE THE DATA with existing databases, such as the "violent offenders" data bases which are notoriously arbitrary, we should expect this data to be compared with the Schengen Information System as well. 13. Preventative interception of telecommunications (§34a) EVERYONE can be intercepted in the name of prevention. This includes content (telephone conversations, SMS text messages, mailbox recordings, e-mails, saved e-mails) and so-called traffic data (numbers of other people you have been in contact with). This is not a simple log of who we've called and when we called them, but police uses this data to CREATE A MAP OF HUMAN ASSOCIATIONS and more importantly, a map of human ACTIVITY AND INTENTION. Further, the police in M-V now has the technological capability to use so called IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) catcher, which simulates a mobile base station and thereby puts itself in the path between your phone and your real GSM network, recoding ALL MOBILE PHONE COMMUNICATION. The police can therefore collect numbers you phone, numbersthat phone you, the number of the phone itself, the SIM card number, the length of time of the call. Telecommunications Service Providers in Germany ARE OBLIGED PASS ON TRAFFIC DATA OF THE PAST 6 MONTHS TO THE POLICE. IMSI catchers can also INTERRUPT PHONE COMMUNICATION. The police apparently applied this method during the anti-nuclear Castor protests to stop people from communicating with each other, when they encircled by police, for example.The police can ascertain your location without IMSI catchers as well, by using so-called "silent SMS text messages". The only safe way to circumvent mobile phone surveillance therefore remains to SWITCH OFF THE PHONE AND TAKE THE SIM CARD AND THE BATTERY OUT, preferably before entering a new GSM area. This way the police can only ascertain your last location at which your phone was switched on. (Mobile) phone - yes or no? Because of the high surveillance risks connected to (mobile) phones, you should ask yourself how you will use the (mobile) phone in the run-up to the summit. Although PGP might provide some privacy in e-mail contact, there are only the two extremes of NO PHONE AT ALL or EXPECT TO BE INTERCEPTED EVERYWHERE. Most people will choose a path inbetween, but please abstain from using the phone to discuss political issues or to make appointments. 14. 'Profiling': data comparisons with public institutions (§44) Under Germany's anti-terrorist legislation, law enforcement can demand from public and private authorities (e.g. universities, but also e-bay!) to disclose all personal data relating to a 'profile' of suspects (e.g. above 24 years-old, male, of Arab origin). They can then compare this data with police data banks. 15. Compulsory blood samples (§53, 4) Under the name of HIV prevention, the M-V police can now take blood samples, in case of "immanent danger", again, the danger is defined by police, judge's orders given retrospectively. It is LIKELY THAT POLICE WILL TAKE BLOOD SAMPLES IN CASE OF INJURIES involving bodily fluid, that means also in cases of demonstrators being beaten up by the police. We can expect that the DNA will be taken up in the German DNA databank, IF YOU HAVE A BLOOD SAMPLE TAKEN AND YOU HAVE HIV OR HEPATITIS, THIS INFORMATION WILL MOST LIKELY BE TAKEN UP IN THE GERMAN FEDERAL POLICE DATABANK INPOL. 16. Video recording from within police vehicles (§32, 4) The police can film you when stopping you or your vehicle, although they are supposed to delete this film material after the event, this is not the case if it can be used to 'solve crimes'. 17. Cross-border police cooperation (EU law) During the last decade, we have seen the development of an informal European police apparatus that has legalised the (almost) limitless exchange of personal data between police forces and dubious judicial cooperation methods that weaken the rights of the accused (applied, for example, during the Genoa and Gothenburg trials). International protesters will therefore face a particular arsenal of data collection and travel restriction methods: from the Schengen Information System to the reinstitution of internal border controls, travel bans and the Eurodac fingerprint database, BEWARE of anyone planning to cross your travel plans. The measures that can be expected to be applied (also) for this summit, can be summarised as follows: Before the summit - Exit and entry bans - personal visits or phone calls by the police to let you know they are watching - reporting obligations (at the police station) for potential suspects - confiscation of passports - observation activities - preventative arrest - internal border controls (the suspension of the Schengen agreement) - data exchange between German and other EU or non-EU police forces During the summit we can expect: - Police controls long before the actual summit region - mobile and stationary video surveillance with a zoom function - telephone interception - presence of foreign police forces at the summit to help German police to identify foreign activists but foreign police will also observe and can even arrest activists from their countries - banning orders - preventative arrests (for the duration of the relevant police regulations) - speed trials, in particular in the case of international protesters - the use of (stricter) foreigner regulations in case of international protestors (deportations) And what will actually happen? Only the next few months will show how the new police arsenal will actually be applied in practice. It remains important that even under this 'brave new world' order, we should not refrain from protesting and resisting. Please do not only read this section about methods of repression, but also read that on creative protest, including the guidelines on how to deal with police aggression. The above is a summary and free translation of a legal advice booklet written in August 2006 by: Rote Hilfe Greifswald c/o Klex Lange Straße 14 17489 Greifswald greifswald@rote-hilfe.de German full-text version: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/RH_Greifswald_Flyer_SOG.pdf Other English language sources on (anti)-repression: Pepperspray, CS & Other "Less-Lethal" Weapons Used by Rioting Police to Suppress Dissent when Politricks & Television fail to do so: http://gipfelsoli.org/Repression/autonomedical_collective.pdf 'Solidarity : A Rough Guide' by Starhawk (Organiser la solidarité en cas de répression www.starhawk.org): http://gipfelsoli.org/Repression/solidarity_starhawk.html A small glossary of (criminal) legal terms for solidarity campaigns: http://gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Uebersetzungen.html |