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Anti-Castor activist killed by train From Indymedia.de, by Diet Simon - 07.11.2004 17:40 A 23-year-old man has died in France as he protested against the Castor train taking nuclear waste to Germany. The train cut off both his legs.


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Attempts to revive the man failed. The fire brigade said the man had chained himself to the rails in Nancy near Avricourt. The accident had happened despite massive security precautions, the fire brigade said.

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There is some confusion over whether the dead person is a man or a woman. Greenpeace said she was a woman. Two men had managed to leave the rails in time. But the information was not secure because no one had been at the location. Greenpeace had not expected any protest actions in France.

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Earlier the train taking 12 Castor containers to Gorleben in Germany had been held up for two hours near Laneuveville-devant-Nancy because two activists had chained themselves to the rails there. The two were handed over to the police who also arrested up to 20 other protesters.

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The umbrella organisation of the Gorleben resistance, BI Lüchow-Dannenberg, expressed dismay at the fatal accident.

Consultations were going on about further protest actions against the transport, said the BI press office in Lüchow.

A mourning service is planned for Hitzacker at 6 p.m. In the south there will be a minute’s silence at S-Bahnhof Maximiliansau
West, and Bahnhof Wörth.

The location of the Castor train was not know at the time of this writing.

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Activists expect the Castors to reach the end of their rail journey in Dannenberg on Monday. They’ll be transferred to trucks for the last 20 kms to the concrete storage hall in Gorleben, where they’re to stay for 40 years.

Several hundred activists protested Sunday morning in Lüchow-Dannenberg county, in which the picturesque village of Gorleben lies, in several small actions They included bicycle and horseback excursions, closely watched by police. Sixty farmers were also out and about with tractors.

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x 07.11.2004 18:16

On the way to the county, six border policemen were injured in a road accident in Baden-Württemberg. A truck ran into the back of their six-vehicle convoy, crushing three of them into each other. One was injured seriously, the others lightly. The truck driver was also lightly injured.


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Since 2 pm a railway line stroll has been in progress from S-Bahnhof Maximiliansau-West (Wörth / Karlsruhe) towards Lauterbourg.
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1:53 pm In Nancy the Castor train was held up for three hours by two young people chaining themselves to the railbed. It’s now three hours late and is expected at the Franco-German border this afternoon. Activists from all over France were at the action. The two people who chained themselves and 15 to 20 others were arrested by the French police.

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11:15 am About 25 km south of Nancy the train stopped in front of a chemicals plant of Rhône-Poulenc. Two young people were chained through a pipe under the rails, 13 other people took part. About 60 people demonstrated at Nancy railway station.


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Splietau, near Gorleben – More than 60 Greenpeace youngsters from Germany, France, the USA and Switzerland demonstrated for a future with only regenerative energy sources. Splietau is a village on one of the possible road routes to Gorleben from the Dannenberg railhead. The youngsters are taking part in the international Greenpeace youth campaign, "SolarGeneration". “We young people are not the final repository of the problems today’s adults can’t get a grip on,” said 16-year-old Julia Lingenfelder from Cologne. http://www.mysan.de/article25352.html. Press spokeswoman Ortrun Albert is reachable on location at 0171-8781 184.

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11:23 Nancy. The Castor train stopped because of two people chained to the railbed.

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Several hundred people demonstrated in Pirmasens, southwest Germany, against the consignment. More at http://gruppen.greenpeace.de/kaiserslautern/ak041106.html. High-resolution photos from 0170 / 67 38 634.


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A superior court in Lüneburg has forbidden demonstrations along the route in the wider area of Gorleben. The Oberverwaltungsgericht (OVG) Lüneburg overturned a ruling by a lower court that quashed a general ban issued by the regional government authority. The OVG upheld the assembly ban of the Bezirksregierung Lüneburg (file 11 ME 322/04), saying said that during the Castor transport there is a “police emergency”. For the legal mumbo jumbo in German see http://www.lawchannel.de/index2_full.php?feed=11390.

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The train left Valognes, northern France, at 9.05 pm. Saturday. It consists of two diesel locomotives (green), two passenger carriages, 12 Castor waggons, another passenger carriage, another diesel locomotive (green).

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A French activist, Jean-Yvon.Landrac@gmx.net, reported that the train appears to be using false freight papers (picture at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97626.shtml). He was trying to find someone in the safety authorities to have the train stopped legally. The caskets are labelled "combustibles usés" (spent fuel elements), whereas the correct labelling for the glass-encased waste of this consignment has to be "DHA" (Déchets hautement actifs – highly active waste). Because the labelling is false, Landrac writes, railway staff can call an "avis d'alerte" (warning) which would stop the train until matters were cleared up. Landrac needs to find someone available at the CSHCT (Commission de Sécurité, d'Hygiène et des Conditions de Travail) but thought it was doubtful Saturday or Sunday. The French activists report that the transport is rolling through France
practically unguarded. "We could even have climbed aboard," said one, "under these circumstances a terrorist attack would have been easy - with unimaginable consequences." A photo of the freight papers can be downloaded at http://www.castornix.de. Jean-Yvon Landrac, Réseau "Sortir du nucléaire", Tel./Fax: 00 33 2 99 77 31 70, mobile 00 33 6 99 56 29 67.

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Anti-nuclear activists report more people, more tractors and apparently more courage and rage opposing this year’s consignment. A post at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97546.shtml says a start-up rally in nearby Dannenberg, the railhead, has exceeded all expectations. It claims between 5,000 and 6,000 protesters – more than last year. Most mainstream media agree with the figure. The number is even being used by the police – who’re also in the county in their thousands. Organisers had said earlier they’d be satisfied with 3,000. “It appears that against all expectations the resistance is growing again,” says the post. Pictures at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97571.shtml. More pictures and information also at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97607.shtml.
In recent weeks and months police actions in previous nuclear waste transports were often criticised by courts. Headlines indicate the trend: “Police act illegally”, “Police action illegal again,” “Police action again criticised”, “Inhuman encirclement” or “Castor opponents released too late” (sourced from the local ELbe-Jeetzel Zeitung newspaper).

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About 150 people demonstrated at Wiesental train station near the Philippsburg atomic power station Saturday afternoon. Despite a ban, they crossed the transport route, tolerated by police, although they took down some names. Karlsruhe county has banned demonstrations in a 100-metre wide corridor along the transport route. Activists see good chances of getting the ban overturned, as happened to a similar one issued in Lüneburg and overturned by the administrative court there. “The fact that police tolerated our infringement shows how senseless the ban is – it was just meant to intimidate anti-nuclear activists,” said local organisers. A stroll is planned along the rails on Sunday, in the direction the Castor train will be coming from. More information from. http://www.castor-stoppen.de, http://neckarwestheim.antiatom.de or http://www.castor.de, Phillip Hofmeister and Eric Tschöp, mobile 0160 - 992 181 52, fax: 012 12 - 579 235 490, e-mail: presse-sw@gmx.de, http://www.castor-stoppen.de.

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Warm accommodation, vegan meals and up to date information are offered to visiting activists by the Hitzacker-Camp am See, open since Thursday 4 November. It’s on the "Seewiese" by the Archäologisches Zentrum in Hitzacker. Accommodation is in heated tents or with host families in Hitzacker. Children welcome – there are some special events for them and there’s a playground right next door. e-mail: camp-hitzacker@gmx.de, homepage: http://www.castorgruppehitzacker.tk, address: "Seewiese" Hitzacker, phone: 05862 – 941409.

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Hundreds of people took part in demonstrations by school pupils on Friday. In nearby Lüneburg it was even c. 1,000 (pictures and more information about the Lüneburg action at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97523.shtml). In Lüchow, the administrative centre of Lüchow-Dannenberg county, where Gorleben is located, police were attacked with eggs. Police have to expect more massive resistance the closer the transport gets to Gorleben. http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97514.shtml

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A policeman’s hand was injured in a demonstration involving farm tractors on Friday. Police blame demonstrators, while the anti-nuclear civic action group in Luechow, BI, says the policeman was careless. It also rejected police allegations that activists injured two police horses, saying the riders forced them to trot on a railway bridge, causing them to slip and fall on its metal plates. http://de.news.yahoo.com/041105/12/4a6q1.html

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Near the Dutch border, at Gronau, the site of Germany's only uranium enrichment plant ( http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/09/93964.shtml), German and Dutch anti-nuclear activists will be watching out for trains that may be taking depleted uranium to Rotterdam for onshipment to Russia. The activists think the operators may try to use the Gorleben activities as cover. Legal action by Dutch activists has stopped expansion of a Urenco sister plant at Almelo and this success is to be discussed at meetings in Gronau. http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97508.shtml

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The Greens’ youth wing is calling for large numbers of people to take part in non-violent resistance against the transport. http://www.pressrelations.de/index.cfm?start_url=http%3A//www.pressrelations.de/search/release.cfm%3Fr%3D173126%26style%3D

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The entire village of Metzingen near Gorleben has declared itself a resistance camp. An info point opened up Friday afternoon. Camp-Tel: 0162 - 886 35 94. Directions on how to get there and more information at http://goehrde.plentyfact.net/ Homepage:: http://goehrde.plentyfact.net

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The Lower Saxony environment ministry says “extensive radiation measurements will again take place” of the transport “to protect the population and the accompanying personnel”. http://www.pressrelations.de/index.cfm?start_url=http%3A//www.pressrelations.de/search/release.cfm%3Fr%3D173119%26style%3D

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BUND, the German section of Friends of the Earth International, has called on the government to table a final repository law before the end of the year. Two legislative periods had passed without progress in searching for a final nuclear waste dump and things hadn’t advanced since the Social Democrat Greens coalition took power, BUND said. http://www.mysan.de/article25169.html

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Civic action groups in the state of Lower Saxony, where Gorleben is located, have challenged the legality of the transports. Their joint media release is at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97411.shtml.

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Salt deposits like the one in Gorleben are unsuitable for storing nuclear waste, say experts. Geophysicist Nikolai Gestermann explained to the «Berliner Zeitung» newspaper that because salt is lighter than the sand and clay layers above it, it presses upwards – comparable to an air bubble in honey. “In my view a salt deposit is therefore unsuitable for an atomic waste repository that has to be safe for hundreds of thousands of years.” http://de.news.yahoo.com/041106/336/4a75a.html Anti-nuclear activists allege that German federal and regional governments and the nuclear industry are planning to use the Gorleben salt deposit as a final dump regardless, although exploratory mining of it has been stopped after scientific advice. Earlier studies showed the Gorleben salt plug to have contact with ground water, posing the danger of contaminating drinking water supplies if nuclear waste is put into it. The activists say every waste consignment into the “interim storage” hall in Gorleben, where the waste is to stay for 40 years, makes permanent storage in the salt more likely. See on this http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/tagesthema/392695.html and http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/11/06/a0151.nf/text.ges,1

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The southwest German anti-nuclear activities say they’re keeping their protest camp at Oberhausen-Rheinhausen.

An email from them timed 6:03 pm said the Castor train was till stationary. Passenger traffic on the Wörth-Lauterbourg route was resumed.

Local sources said German b order police who were posted to the border crossing point were withdrawn.

Media report that French state attorneys have begun investigating and that it’s unclear when the Castor train will resume its trip.

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At http://de.indymedia.org/2004/11/97725.shtml calls for m ourning marches throughout Germany are being posted.

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