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Bill to anti-nuclear activists in court
Diet Simon - 18.02.2005 16:24
A police bill to anti-nuclear activists for DM 14,100 Mark (7,210 euros) is being challenged next Tuesday in a court in Schleswig, north Germany.
The bill went to five protesters who blocked a transport of nuclear waste to the Gorleben dump in 2001. It was sent by the north presidium of the border police in Bad Bramstedt.
The Schleswig-Holstein administrative court is hearing the case, the first of its kind it’s ever dealt with.
Meanwhile R. Zander reports that activists held up a nuclear waste train at Buxtehude near Hamburg for at least an hour in the night from Feb 15th to 16th.
A group of activists attracted the attention of the people on the train and in an accompanying helicopter with rockets and other fireworks. A second group placed straw effigies in white overalls on the track elsewhere, causing a freight train to brake.
beobachter reports that already at 1 a.m. in the transport night, what appeared to be plainclothes police guarded the railway line and surroundings around Hamburg-Harburg.
When at about 1:30 a.m. three people were strolling near the track, they were checked on the pretext of a drugs control. Little later the three were ordered to leave the area because a police measure was to take place there. No other explanation was given.
In the following hours the police made visible efforts to keep tabs on the three.
A cardboard carton on the track later stopped the train in southern Germany  http://germany.indymedia.org/translations/.
The taz newspaper reports protests against the nuclear train in the Ruhr and Münsterland regions.
As every other transport, said the paper, this one ran strictly secretly. Neither the state government not the police announced it.
The paper points out that every Castor casket contains several times the amount of radioactive material of the Hiroshima bomb. Five to eight kilogrammes of depleted plutonium are enough for a bomb, the paper points out.
On Tuesday evening anti-nuclear activists protested at a rally in Münster against nuclear transports and the approved tripling of output by the uranium enrichment factory in Gronau near the Dutch border.
The activists called on the North-Rhine Westphalian Greens, junior partners in government to the Social Democrats, to call the coalition into question because of this “crassly wrong decision” of the Social Democrat energy minister.
The expansion at Gronau will substantially increase the transportation of uranium through Gronau, Ahaus, Münster and the region generally, turning the Münsterland into a centre of the German nuclear industry.
France’s conservative government continues to bank on nuclear energy. Wind and solar power have a minimal part in the country.
The 58 French reactors produce 12,000 tonnes of radioactive wastes every year. Because reprocessing plants always produce more waste than they use, nuclear transportation between the two neighbour countries will increase in future.
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