Berlin, 26 nov (EFE).-the protests of them anti-nuclear against the train “Beaver” loaded of waste radioactive arreciado today in Germany, while the convoy was about between strong measures of security to its destination, the deposit of Gorleben (North of el country).
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At 1145 GMT transport stopped in the town of Seelze, in the vicinity of Hanover, as confirmed the German public broadcaster ZDF, with what just you are already about 200 kilometers of route.
The day was plagued by protests, as several activists in Harlingen, near Gorleben, which blocked the railroad tracks with tires that set on fire.
However, it is in Metzingen, another town near the nuclear cemetery where are undergoing the worst incidents.
In that city officials have uploaded today several times against about 300 activists, who have tried to repeatedly break the police cordon and reach up to the tracks, and last night, during clashes between police and environmentalists, burned two cars police.
Police said in a statement that its troops were attacked in Metzingen with molotov cocktails, flares and rocks, and activists and media emphasized the abundant use of water cannons, rubber balls and tear-gas by the forces of security.
Anti-nuclear sources claimed that there have managed to unearth 20 meters of track, one of the strategies more practised by the activists to stop the train.
In addition, during the morning and the morning the anti-nuclear been stop on several occasions the train “Beaver” in its passage through the region of the Palatinate and the State of Hesse, both in the West of the country.
The security forces, which have deployed a total of 20,000 troops to secure the route of this controversial train, have applied this year a new strategy of “zero tolerance”, as noted in today’s Edition the newspaper “Berliner Tageszeitung”.
“The police reacted with unusual against protests force”, stated on cover this Rotary, which recalled that in the past the security forces failed to act against the anti-nuclear until that they did not try to stop the train.
At noon is planned a large demonstration against Atomic Energy in the town of Dannenberg, the closest to the Gorleben nuclear cemetery, where organizers planned gather several thousand activists.
However, still don’t know when the “Beaver” reach this town, where 11 containers with 2,500 tons of highly radioactive waste should be relocated in trucks for the last few kilometres by road to temporary deposit Gorleben.
The convoy with the container, known as “Beaver” entered German territory yesterday morning by the town of Saarbrücken (West of the country) from the plant for processing of atomic waste from Le Hague (West France).
However, the Thursday night already occurred in German territory the first incidents associated with the passage of the train, when the police used water cannons on some 800 demonstrators in Wendland.
For years, the transport of radioactive waste by Germany generated strong protests of the anti-nuclear, with recurring successive cuts of the tracks on their journey to Gorleben deposit.
After the mass concentrations of last year, the most popular in decades, the protests of 2011 will be the first following the adoption of the nuclear “blackout” of the federal Chancellor, Angela Merkel, under the impact of the catastrophe of the atomic power plant Fukushima.
A view of the special containers “Beaver”, loaded with radioactive waste convoy, parked yesterday in Remilly (France East). EFE
A sign of Fukusima is used in a protest against the controversial train “Beaver” in Hitzacker (Germany) today, Friday, November 25, 2011. EFE
