(Updated status of the train and details of protests)
Berlin, 27 nov (EFE).-successive German anti-nuclear activists protest actions today blocked the advance of the train loaded with radioactive waste in their route to the deposit of Gorleben (North of the country), despite the tight security.
The convoy, with 11 containers type “Beaver” and 2,500 tons of highly toxic waste is still under arrest since the GMT yesterday at the loading station of Maschen, about 100 kilometers from its destination 17.44 end.
On which the security forces withdraw in aloft one 2,500 activists who organized a “sit-in” in the town of Harlingen, two anti-nuclear groups managed to evade the police cordon a few miles from there and put chains on the train tracks.
The first to Vastorf were removed from the Rails quickly; but the seconds in Hitzacker remained still there at 1125 GMT, while security forces trying to dismantle the complex mechanism of one ton of concrete that have handcuffed to the tracks.
Police anticipated that they will need even several hours more to remove these activists (three men and a woman), while to its around has returned to form the umpteenth “sit-in”.
Nearby took place yesterday evening an action of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, which managed to chain together a number of its members onto the track, and that police took more than six hours to trigger.
Since last Thursday, a day before he left from Le Hague (France) waste treatment plant this train “Beaver”, demonstrations, protest actions and clashes between activists and police have been frequent in the towns near the nuclear cemetery German.
The police, which has mobilised 20,000 troops, has pointed out that its agents have been attacked with molotov cocktails, flares and rocks, while activists and the media have highlighted the generous use of water cannons, rubber balls and tear-gas by the forces of security.
The German police has implemented this year a strategy of “zero tolerance” against the activists, opposed to the tactics of previous years of “diffuse”, according to means Germans.
Although officially he pointed to Sunday, is not yet known when the controversial transport to reach Dannenberg, last stop on the journey by train, and where “castor” containers will be resettled in trucks to traverse the last kilometres by road to Gorleben.
For years, transport of German radioactive waste returning to the country after being treated in France generated strong protests from anti-nuclear collective germane, with recurring cuts of the tracks on his way to deposit Gorleben.
After the mass concentrations of last year, the most crowded in decades, the protests of 2011 are the first after the adoption of the nuclear “blackout” of the federal Chancellor, Angela Merkel, under the impact of the catastrophe of the Japanese atomic power plant Fukushima. EFE
JPMorgan/ah
