[OccupyComms] [Squares] [Occupy London] Frankfurt 400 arrests Fwd: [reseau-europe] QUATRE CENT ARRESTATIONS A FRANCFORT

Sat May 19 10:40:16 GMT 2012

Is this publishable? Do we have images?

2012/5/19 Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>

> Mark wrote
> "Wow we so need a mass arrest. We should organise a mass arrest. We'll put
> it out on facebook as a big event. Invite as many folks as can be to come
> get arrested outyside goldman sachs or something."
> Here is more also google translated from German
>
> At 6 in the morning began to be movement on campus. The Bankviertel was
> already locked, the police had saved us from work on Wednesday, but our
> anger is stronger and we wanted to reach the Euro symbol as a sign of
> conquest. To avoid leaks to the police to be more difficult to stop, we
> decided to stay in the Kaiserstrasse. The street is enormous, but so many,
> there we end up seeing. Each was free to go as he pleased, but yes, always
> in small groups. At 7 am we left the university. After easily reach the
> outskirts of the forbidden district, there were controls in each corner. At
> 7.20 we were subjected to the first control. Without asking for
> documentation, emptied backpacks, pockets and frisked. We tried it in
> another corner but this morning the police radio and it worked smoothly and
> we were expecting. To us and the other 4 groups we met. I left college with
> three others, two of Würzburg and a French woman who lives in Darmstadt and
> came here to fight alone because you do not need anything else that will.
> Giving by disabling access to the bank and see that the station was the
> only accessible central point, we decided with the other people go there.
> Of course, each group kept walking separately.
>  Arriving at the station we met many other people across a corner and saw
> ...... an impromptu demonstration consists of more than 1000 people.
> Yesterday in an interview said that at least 800 but now it would fall of
> 1000 (remember, numbers and approximate but true). We decided to get to
> walk / run by the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and then Senckenberganlage. An
> avenue of four lanes each direction with a large pedestrian area in the
> middle. We cut all four lanes of one way. The police tried to stop at one
> point but there were so many that police broke the chain and proceeded to
> run like crazy through the streets. Of course, without the slightest cause
> destruction or damage or to individuals or furniture. The mistake was
> leaving the driveway and put us in a residential neighborhood. The police
> surrounded us and I was hooked in the first Kessel. Kessel seems to be
> another formed in some other nearby street trapping people who escaped the
> first. It was 9 am. The whole day lay ahead. Also, just out the SOL, and
> that could only be good. An hour and a half later we learned that some
> colleagues, taking advantage of our local police weakness had brought up,
> gained access to the square of the ECB. The objective was fulfilled.
>  About us, the police decided to stop. That would be already past noon.
> Prior to that Kessel had been quite lively. He had a megaphone, a speaker
> who, meine Meinung nach, had little political base but glib and eager to
> prominence, and a pair of clowns (literally) that started smiles and good
> vibes to anyone. Following the announcement, the megaphone became
> momentarily more experienced hands who reported the procedure and what we
> should do. He remembered the phone number for when we take EA detainees, we
> had pocket money to make the call, which we refused to declare anything to
> the police and that we try to be as slow and clumsy possible to delay
> everything. A colleague also recommended Würzburg, at the group level and
> not via megaphone, before you go and piss off the phone so you do not see
> or sms or call log. I also always carried a small notebook, tore all the
> pages and did bits, just in case. It was the first time in many papers
> pulling down on the street ... I hope that my conscience will not take long
> to forget. Since the announcement until they began to be spent over the
> first hour. During that time, the former speaker and clowns returned to
> their old tricks again and go Stimmung. In addition, a small group of four
> people doing yoga in front of the police and a policeman who could not help
> but sing the lyrics of "killing in the name of" the rage against the
> machines helped keep the joy. The story may seem cabreante police, we held
> four hours on the street and singing colleague, but it shows that, as seen
> in the film, Robocop also has a human heart and the final enemy is not
> Robocop program but one that will .
>  After a long pause again to look for people. The second and third control
> caching of the day followed me into another Kessel across the city, waiting
> for the bus arrived. There was no megaphone and the clowns were gone in the
> first bus. At first, I will not deny, I was very nervous at times. Now, the
> die was cast. There was only waiting for the bus. But at about 15 hours the
> SUN shone stronger than ever.
>  "Wegen organisatorischer Grunden" (very probably wrong declined, thank
> you private messages with correction) we could take to jail. Come on, they
> were overwhelmed and the cells filled. We gave out information and
> accepting them not to enter the neighborhood "forbidden" during the day.
> The ban would last until 23horas. The university was far from the area and
> our lives could be normally elapse. The surprise did come in first. Two
> things had changed. The perimeter was not Bankviertel, quite north of
> Frankfurt Main (except for my home neighborhood cop-whores) and the ban
> lasted until 7.30horas the next day. Skipped the protocol because there was
> no official document, but we were on a blacklist and would love to give a
> written paper will want to lose a few more hours going to the station.
>  Despite being off limits, we went back to college. Vokü ate there and we
> plan to do. The workshops organized for the day passed normally, those who
> should develop in college. The rest were all canceled. I decided to go to
> my neighborhood because I wanted to gamble. Terms of the deal were clearly
> illegal but the fact of not being able to go to the demonstration on
> Saturday was a greater fear. At about 5 or 6 in the evening is over for me
> the day revolutionary. No phone calls were completed. About 11 o'clock at
> night I called the people of Würzburg. The prohibition (stadtausweisung)
> was canceled except for those who were punished for carrying weapons. That
> is, once we conquered the ECB, through his illegal action, managed to stay
> away from the bench for the rest of the day. Still, considering that there
> are 5,000 police officers now in Frankfurt, I think our success was higher.
>  The event opened today (Saturday) at 12 noon. To be exact, the schedule
> says that at 12.05 (very German all). I now go for a drive to see how the
> streets of Frankfurt. Too bad you could ye not have been here. The
> impromptu rally yesterday and break the police cordon has been the nicest
> I've seen in a while. Tomorrow the last report.
>
>
> On 19 May 2012 08:09, mark weaver <shurim at live.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>  Wow we so need a mass arrest. We should organise a mass arrest. We'll
>> put it out on facebook as a big event. Invite as many folks as can be to
>> come get arrested outyside goldman sachs or something.
>>
>> mk
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> To: marknbarrett at googlemail.com
>> From: lsxcamp at gmail.com
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>> Subject: Re: [Occupy London] Frankfurt 400 arrests Fwd: [reseau-europe]
>> QUATRE CENT ARRESTATIONS A FRANCFORT
>> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 00:38:33 +0100
>>
>>
>> Thanks for this Mark, again, crucial updates from international scene.
>> Totally disturbing state clamp down on dissent though.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> J
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 18 May 2012, at 18:48, "Mark Barrett" <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Google translation reposted at
>> http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/05/frankfurt-blockupy-latest/
>>
>> *Police arrest four hundred anti-capitalist protesters in Frankfurt*
>>
>> FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The policeallemande was arrested Friday in
>> Frankfurt four hundred militantsanticapitalistes protesting against the
>> unauthorized politiqued'austérité defended by the European Central Bank
>> (ECB) address the crisis beyond debt in the euro area.
>>
>> The event was part of the cadred'une four-day operation, scheduled to
>> Saturday, in the wake desprotestations conducted by "indignant" Spanish and
>> movement "Occupy Wall Street" in New York.
>>
>> German justice has authorized a "rave" held last Wednesday and Saturday
>> events planned, but ainterdit gatherings other day, what the protesters
>> ontpas considered.
>>
>> The police had blocked access auxprincipales streets of Frankfurt and was
>> deployed in strength in lecentre city. The arrests took place without
>> violence.
>>
>> Militants including rassemblésautour the Messeturm, the skyscraper which
>> houses the offices of Goldman Sachs banqued'investissement.
>>
>> "Hungry? Eat a banker!" Could be read on one of the banners brandished by
>> the demonstrators, who ontexprimé their anger to the austerity measures
>> advocated by the ECB, which is located in Frankfurt Lesiège.
>>
>> The ECB has repeatedly urged the payseuropéens, especially those most
>> affected by the debt crisis as laGrèce or Portugal, to continue to pursue
>> policies of this type, noting that it had injected more than one thousand
>> three hundred billion 'eurosdans the financial sector in December and
>> January to avoid a credit crisedu.
>>
>> "It's not that the banks BCEdevrait distribute his money but the
>> country," said GüntherStamer, a social worker of 62 years, came to Kiel in
>> northern del'Allemagne.
>>
>> The ECB announced that manifestationsn'avaient not caused it to
>> malfunction. Private banks that own deslocaux in Frankfurt have also stated
>> that they had not known deperturbations, including Deutsche Bank, Germany's
>> largest bank, dontles access to offices were sealed off by police.
>>
>> La police arrête quatre cent manifestants anticapitalistes à Francfort
>>
>> FRANCFORT (Reuters) - La policeallemande a interpellé vendredi à
>> Francfort quatre cent militantsanticapitalistes qui manifestaient sans
>> autorisation contre la politiqued'austérité défendue par la Banque centrale
>> européenne (BCE) face à la crise dela dette dans la zone euro.
>>
>> La manifestation s'inscrivait dans le cadred'une opération de quatre
>> jours, prévue jusqu'à samedi, dans la mouvance desprotestations menées par
>> les "indignés" espagnols et le mouvement"Occupy Wall Street" à New York.
>>
>> La justice allemande a autorisé une « rave »organisée mercredi dernier et
>> des manifestations prévues samedi, mais elle ainterdit les rassemblements
>> les autres jours, ce dont les manifestants n'ontpas tenu compte.
>>
>> La police avait bloqué l'accès auxprincipales rues de Francfort et
>> s'était déployée en force dans lecentre-ville. Les arrestations se sont
>> déroulées sans violence.
>>
>> Les militants se sont notamment rassemblésautour de la Messeturm, le
>> gratte-ciel qui abrite les bureaux de la banqued'investissement Goldman
>> Sachs.
>>
>> "Affamés ? Mangez un banquier !",pouvait-on lire sur l'une des banderoles
>> brandies par les manifestants, qui ontexprimé leur colère face aux mesures
>> d'austérité défendues par la BCE, dont lesiège se trouve à Francfort.
>>
>> La BCE a pressé à plusieurs reprises les payseuropéens, en particulier
>> les plus touchés par la crise de la dette comme laGrèce ou le Portugal, de
>> continuer à mener des politiques de ce type,soulignant qu'elle avait
>> injecté plus de mille trois cent milliards d'eurosdans le secteur financier
>> en décembre et janvier derniers pour éviter une crisedu crédit.
>>
>> "Ce n'est pas aux banques que la BCEdevrait distribuer son argent mais
>> plutôt aux pays", a déclaré GüntherStamer, un travailleur social de 62 ans,
>> venu de Kiel, dans le nord del'Allemagne.
>>
>> La BCE a annoncé que les manifestationsn'avaient pas nui à son
>> fonctionnement. Les banques privées qui possèdent deslocaux à Francfort ont
>> également précisé qu'elles n'avaient pas connu deperturbations, y compris
>> Deutsche Bank, la plus grande banque allemande, dontles accès aux bureaux
>> avaient été bouclés par la police.
>>
>>
>> http://www.fr.news.yahoo.com/la-police-arr%C3%AAte-400-manifestants-anticapitalistes-%C3%A0-francfort-160449613--sector.html
>>
>>
>> http://www.convergencedesluttes.fr/index.php?post/2012/05/18/QUATRE-CENT-ARRESTATIONS-A-FRANCFORT
>>
>>
>> http://www.fischer02003.over-blog.com/article-quatre-cent-arrestations-a-francfort-105401151.html
>>
>>
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