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G8 Evian: Police in Court in the Aubonnebridge Case

category international | summit mobilisations | news report author Tuesday February 14, 2006 10:19author by Aubonne Group - Aubonne Groupauthor address www.aubonnebridge.net Report this post to the editors

After three years of fighting to bring the case to caught yesterday saw the opening of the trial in Nyon Switzerland.

Prosecuting the police involved in the Aubonne Case

In June 2003, an affinity group of people from around Europe, including Irish, German, French, British, Dutch and Belgium blockaded the Aubonne Bridge with a climbing action in order to stop a G8 delegation from reaching the summit in Evian. The police cut the climbing rope and nearly killed two activists. Now the policeman who cut the rope and his senior officer are in court. They are charged with body harm with negligence…

On the 13th of february the court case against two Swiss police officers opened in Nyon, Switzerland. The police are charged with causing bodily harm through negligence.

During the G8-protests in 2003, Michael Deiss cut the climbing rope of two activists who were blocking the Aubonne Bridge, nearly causing both their deaths and seriously injuring one of them. His senior officer, Claude Poget, had created the chaotic conditions at the scene that made this act possible. The injured climber was in hospital in Switzerland for a month and sustained irreversible injuries. Many solidarity actions and campaigning took place after the incident in June 2003 and again around the court case AGAINST the activists in May 2004. The case gained a lot of national and international media attention.

At the trial in 2004 the activists were found guilty of blocking the road and endangering the lives of the drivers. Shortly afterwards the investigating judge decided to effectively drop the case against the police. Only after an appeal and a great deal of public pressure did the high court overturn his decision and allow for the case to go ahead.

The court case against the police will be decided by the same judge who gave the activists suspended prison sentences, Jaques Antenen. If the charges against the police are proven, there will only be minor penalties, like fines or short sentences on probation. Given the history of police impunity in Switzerland, it seems unlikely that they will be found guilty. The Aubonne Bridge campaign from the very beginning has demanded the suspension of the two police officers involved, an independent investigation into the repression that took place during the G8 and compensation for those who were seriously injured. Until now the Canton de Vaud has refused to pay compensation, but this will now be dependent on the outcome of the court case.

Evidence was heard yesterday from 7 police who were at the scene. Several witnesses and activists from the bridge were also cross examined yesterday.

The Aubonne support group is mobilising to the trial, a party and the surrounding workshops. More info on the web

Check out the 8 min. video of the action on www.aubonnebridge.net

Related Link: http://www.aubonnebridge.net
author by -publication date Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

either he was very lucky to survive falling 20 metres (60 foot) or he was carried by angels.
Maybe he knew how to fall. He still had a broken pelvis, back and foot but recovered. All over Europe people threw cut mountaineering cords at their "representatives". Some climbed up in front of Swiss diplomatic missions and they tried to ignore it all, being proud and helvetian and aloof and "immune". Then they began to learn.

It cost a lot of money to repair his body.

before the policeman cut the rope. Pretty obvious cutting the rope was going to introduce "gravity".
before the policeman cut the rope. Pretty obvious cutting the rope was going to introduce "gravity".

A moment later : This how he almost met his grave.
A moment later : This how he almost met his grave.

Related Link: http://www.aubonnebridge.net/
author by -publication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 21:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"The prosecutor (lawyer of state) is demanding that the two policemen be acquitted. He is clearly trying to turn the situation upside down and make the accused (aggressors) into the victims of the police intervention...

The verdict will be announces Friday, 17th of February at 11.45 am. We call for everyone to come to the court for the verdict.

A more detailed briefing of today is currently being prepared..."
http://www.aubonnebridge.net/index.php

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the victim of police negiligence and arguably the near victim of "manslaughter / homocide / murder" had problems in the immediate aftermath of the incident which for most would seem utterly ludicrous. Paying the swiss paramedic bills, and of course paying the people who put his broken body back together again. Remember he broke his back, pelvis and foot. That is a lot of little bones and while you wait for them to repair you need tubes, painkillers, constant attention and stuff like that.
He asked later in the process not to be indentified, which is why i refer to him as "he" or "him, I honestly don't know if he wishes now to be named. Though a briton, and thus a UK subject /citizen he was resident in Barcelona, and was not really what most would consider a "paid-up" pension and health plan type.

One of the points being made is this :- From the 1st of June 2004 the previous "health entitlements" assured by the E111 "e one eleven" scheme were replaced by the European Health Insurance Card for the EU and EEA {European Economic Area} states. Switzerland though a member of the EEA at its adoption in 1992 left it after a referendum, it didn't come into force till June 2004. of course in 2005 the Swiss returned to referenda on their association with the EU in general and the Shengen and Dublin accords in particular. "all very diplomatic". So kids, if you go to a foregin country on our great continent (protesting or not), ensure before hand that your health costs are provided for. You ought ask your local health centre (if there is one under the FF/PD regime) for information.

The other point was - remember Aubonne is still an open campaign.
& even if you're not that interested in what occured then or after, you can still learn a lot from it.

Related Link: http://www.aubonnebridge.net/index.php
author by doctorpublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 23:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If you find yourself falling 20 metres = 60 foot after being suspended on a rope and { are carried by angels to the ground / know yourself to be lucky / are confident of your cat-like ability to fall } you had better remember that the effect of "g" and your "body mass" will not break (in previous comments / article / links / press release / search terms) afore mentioned pelvis, back and foot @ least :
& further put the complete nervous system into shock, followed by inflamation of all nerves, the vertebral column & spinal cord, organs (risking internal bleeding and rib cage collapse) & place extreme shock factor on the cranium (brain, sensory organs but touch). If you survive such a fall you are :- post-{"carried by angels to the ground / having a lucky break / are proven in your ability to fall"} ( / vindicated in your complaint).

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the press release of several days ago. of course we're waiting on the verdict & or thus in "times" of extended psychological, social, psychic, political, judicial, geopolitical, democratic, european and general "judger" terms.
http://www.aubonnebridge.net/PressRelease_english_08.02...6.doc

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Oh yeah they still need money.
how much is the (€ = $ = £ = ChF)?

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it would hurt like hell too

update - click image - read article
update - click image - read article

Related Link: http://www.aubonnebridge.net/index.php
author by iosaf - (we all have names)publication date Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

His name is Martin Shaw. Quite a few of you knew that.
He was either carried by angels, was lucky or knew how to fall.
He lived on a squatted farm in Barcelona, one of the most exemplary projects of bio-sustainability in Europe, so much so, that the local community of land owners gave it more land to grow organic food on and the people who lived there developed and demonstrated eco-friendly low cost systems of production which are used as far away as Africa. He protested the Evian G8 summit for the most legitimate reasons.

Neither Angels nor Luck nor abilty to fall paid his hospital bills.
= Look at the clip, read the article, click on the links.
http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=600001&sid=64...57000

 
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