GERMANY: Police begin to clear of protestors the road leading to nuclear waste facility

Record ID: 346040

  • Title: GERMANY: Police begin to clear of protestors the road leading to nuclear waste facility
  • Date: 11th November 2008
  • Summary: PROTESTERS IN ROAD UNDER TARPAULINS PROTESTERS SHOUTING AS POLICE START CLEARING THEM OFF THE ROAD POLICE DRAGGING OFF PROTESTER VARIOUS OF POLICE CARRYING AWAY PROTESTERS PROTESTERS CHANTING PROTESTER BEING LEAD AWAY POLICE DRAG PROTESTER PAST CAMP WITH PROTESTERS AND POLICE
  • Embargoed: 26th November 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVACT1N5I6EY7T3HXHXS9HPPDCR3
  • Story Text: Around a thousand anti-nuclear protesters have been cleared by police from the road outside the nuclear waste facility in Gorleben.
    Police started carrying away about 1000 protesters camped in the road outside the nuclear waste facility in Gorleben on Monday afternoon (November 10). The road had been blocked by the protesters since Saturday.
    Protests and demonstrations had delayed the arrival of the nuclear waste transport in Dannenberg, where the containers were transferred to flatbed trucks which then were to carry the nuclear waste by road to the Gorleben facility.
    The protesters erected a makeshift camp in the middle of the road on Saturday. Most of the demonstrators held out since Saturday and let police carry them off the road one by one.
    The train carrying nuclear waste containers reached the loading station in Dannenberg on Monday morning where the containers filled with nuclear waste are transferred onto flatbed trucks. The trucks then will take their freight to interim dump site in the town of Gorleben 20 kilometres away.
    Protesters in Germany staged a blockade using tractors an attempt to stop the movement of nuclear waste to a waste storage facility. Anti-nuclear activists slept on the road near the northern German village of Quickborn where dozens of tractors were parked, stopping any traffic along the road.
    The blockade was one of many taking place in the region, as demonstrators continue to take action to stop nuclear waste being delivered to the waste storage facility in the village of Gorleben.
    On Sunday (November 9) police detained several anti-nuclear activists as they staged a protest on a railway line. Around two hundred protesters were thought to have been taking part in the train track blockades, at several places along the train line which was being used to transport the nuclear waste from France.
    The train carrying the nuclear waste started its journey to Germany from La Hague in France on Friday (November 7) but was delayed by 13 hours after three protesters cemented themselves to the train line on the German-French border on Saturday (November 8). The train arrived in the town of Dannenberg on Sunday, where the waste it will be transferred onto special transporters to be taken on its final leg by road.
    Further demonstrations are expected to take place after a day of blockades along the train's route. In Gorleben, hundreds of protesters were staging a blockade of the road outside the storage facility.
    On Saturday around 15,000 people took part in a peaceful rally in Gorleben.
    According to German media reports, around 16,000 police officers are to guard the train along its journey. The train is expected to arrive in Gorleben sometime on Monday (November 10) morning.
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