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Assolta la polizia svizzera per il G8 di Evian
by imc info Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006 at 1:21 PM mail:

Activists walk out on Judge as Swiss Police Acquitted After Nearly Killing British Climber at G8 Protests, 2003



On the 17th of February, 2006, activists walked out of court in contempt of the whitewashed trial of two police officers in Switzerland, who were acquitted of charges of causing severe bodily harm. The two victims narrowly escaped with their lives after a police officer cut a climbing rope during a protest action against the G8 in Evian, France in 2003. Despite clear video evidence that the police officers had cut the rope in question, the judge helped to provide support for continuing police impunity by ruling that they could not be held responsible for their actions.

Press Contacts: http://www.aubonnebridge.net
Gesine Wenzel or Martin Shaw: +41 7868 36405, aubonnepress@yahoo.com

In May 2003, two climbers suspended themselves on a rope across the Aubonne Bridge in order to stop a G8 delegation from reaching the annual summit in Evian, France. The police cut the climbing rope and nearly killed two activists. Martin Shaw, 41 and from the UK, fell some 25 metres and broke his back, his pelvis and shattered his foot. Despite five operations, he will never make a complete recovery. The second climber, Gesine Wenzel, 27 and from Germany, was saved when members of her affinity group grabbed her rope seconds before she fell. She has suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder after the incident and has had to undergo intensive treatment.

The general absence of any sort of genuine defence was illustrated by the fact that one of the main arguments used in favour of the police was simply that the climbers would not have been cut down if they had not been hanging there in the first place. It was maintained that despite many months of preparation and training prior to the summit, they had been completely unprepared for the possibility that people might try to blockade the motorway in this fashion, despite the fact that they other security forces were stationed as lookouts on other bridges nearby.

The court heard that the novelty of the situation, combined with the “tension” meant that they could not possibly have been able to think rationally before acting. A video of the incident examined in court, however, clearly shows that it was the actions of the police officers arriving on the scene that provoked the tension and the chaos. Moments before the judge read his final acquittal of the police, victims Martin Shaw and Gesine Wenzel walked out of the court with their followers, clearly showing their contempt for the mockery of justice within the courtroom. They held up a banner in front of the judge before leaving which said, “Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere.”

“We are seriously concerned for the precedent that this establishes for court cases in Switzerland if the police enjoy carte blanche in “tense” or new situations,“ said Gesine Wenzel after the verdict was announced.

“What we have seen is essentially a whitewash,” said Martin Shaw. “The Swiss judicial system has given the facade of a fair trial to show that it holds its law-enforcers responsible for their actions. However studies have shown that only 3% of incidents involving police brutality are brought to trial in Switzerland, and even then there is only a 0.08 % conviction rate. We never stood a chance.”

“The reason why we used direct action to blockade the Aubonne Bridge in the first place is because we have no faith whatsoever in the integrity of our legal and political systems,” said Martin Shaw. “People are resorting to direct action because verdicts like this clearly show that you can’t expect justice from the courts or protection from the police.”

“This is one small instance of repression and injustice in a global conflict between the forces of neo-liberalism and those who wish to see a more just, humane and sustainable world,” said Gesine Wenzel.
“From the 29 police-officers currently standing trial for acts of appalling brutality at the summit in Genoa, Italy in 2003, to the massive display of police and military force recently in Gleneagles, Scotland, the G8 is having to use enormous amounts of force to protect itself against the ever increasing amounts of people that challenge its legitimacy.”

For more information, see: http://www.aubonnebridge.net


The following statement was read by Shaw and Wenzel immediately after walking out of the courtroom, while the judge was reading his verdict.
“What we have seen here during the last three days is exactly the reason why we and thousands of other people like us all over the world think that direct action is the best way to overcome injustice.
The entire judicial procedure from the time the rope was cut has been clear whitewash. The prosecution is supposed to defend the law but what they actually defended is the state – and its officers. This court case has been an elaborate, expensive and time-consuming piece of theatre to provide a platform to find excuses for inexcusable actions and to misguide the public by pretending to provide justice.
This verdict is a pure cover up of police brutality by the justice system and is just further proof of the almost complete police impunity in Switzerland.”

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