2007-01-19

Germany: Raids continue in lead up to NATO and G8 summits

Repression January
News about Repression that took place in January 2007
from: https://hamburg.dissentnetzwerk.org/

January 17, Munich: Police raids after call to blockades

(17.01) In Munich police raided 5 objects (public spaces like a book shop and a cafe but also private flats)! Officially they argued with the call to the blockade of Rostock Laage airport, which is announced on the homepage no-nato.de and indynews.net in a call to fight the anti-NATO conference in munich in february (also announced in pamphlets they took from the places). This call would be a "call for illegal activities". Bavaria is one of the most repressive parts in germany, a demonstration in munich is planned allready to fight back repression. german article

Update: They did not search 5 but all together 11 objects in munich. Contradictionary they took the magazins but not the call to rostock, where the same text was written. Also they took in one flat 5 computer instead of only the one of the person which they wanted to seach, so this is against official legal situation.

In munich different places were raided by the police. Named as a reason was the call to blockade the airport Rostock-Laage published in several broshures and in the call for protests against the socalled security-conference [a privatelly organized sub-summit where politicians, weapons industrials and nato-generals harmonize their strategies, Anm.d.ü.]. Raided were several places: The Cafe Marat, a bookshop, a printshop, where the incriminated brochures were thought to be produced, a community centre, as well as the people (we know of three) who oown the domain of some websites, where the call for blockades have been published - namely no-nato.de and indynews.net.

In one WG, where one of the people affected lives, 5 computers were confiscated, while the permission to search only named one person.

Seized were flyers of the latest radical-left siko-call "G8 und SiKo angreifen [Attack G8 and Siko]" (see no-nato.de), brochures containing a resumée of 5 years of mobilization against the SiKo (to be ordered on no-nato.de). Sometimes only one page was ripped out of the brochure (page 22, if you want to know in detail).

As mentioned above, the reason given was "calling for criminal offences", referring to the planed blockade of the airport Rostock-Laage (cited in the permission-to-search-paper was "Flughafen stürmen" - storming the airport), which is regarded as 'Nötigung' [coercion, which is considered a crime]. The official permission-paper also explicitly notes that the participants of the summit will land on this airport.

The raids clearly are meant as a blow towards the mobilization against the G8, but also against the left as a whole. To this point in time it is not known, what kind of reaction will follow, people will meet in the evening in the Marat.

Don´t let them get us down! Attack G8 & SiKo! Storm & block the airport Rostock-Laage!
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January 22, Police entered youth center in Erlangen (Bavaria)

The annual NATO meeting in munich will take place in two weeks, repression is continuing. after a wave of searches in 11 objects in munich some days ago, now the police entered a youth center in the city of Erlangen (Bavaria) at the 22nd of January. The police said they wanted to talk to the responsible of the house in the morning and destroyed the door after nobody opened. They searched for material related to G8 and anti-NATO to criminalize the center. They took flyers, made photos (also from antifascist symbols, which are called "illegal" after last years courtcase in Stuttgart) The Bavarian police seems to have the wish to play the role of the most active against social movements as usual. The youth center is one of the few selforganised centers existing in Bavaria and officials try to frighten active people. The activists see the repression also in the context of the attacks on projects happening all over Germany and Europe the last months, like in Copenhagen. They write it is not clear if it is the start of a federal repression against G8 now, but it is clear that criminalisation of the fight against the NATO summit in Munich and against the G8 summit as well as the repression against alternative and selforganised projects is not acceptable. Solidarity with the comrades facing repression in Munich and elsewhere!

(Text translated and shortened, original from TAG - Temporaere Autonome Gruppe)

On Saturday there will be a demonstration in Erlangen

See also: (German original) http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/166670.shtml

[http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070123235521727]