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G8 2003 Cops to Go Free?
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Thursday February 16, 2006 19:08 by Aubonne Support Group http://www.aubonnebridge.net
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... Day 3: Wednesday, 15th |
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and here's Martin on swiss TV
http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=600001&sid=64...57000
from swissinfo:-
Judges on Friday said the defendants could not be blamed for causing bodily harm through negligence to a British demonstrator after policemen intervened to end the blockage of a motorway bridge near the city of Lausanne.
The court found that the officers made a mistake when they cut a rope that was stretching across the road – and to which the two protestors were attached and dangling from the bridge.
But judges ruled it was not a punishable offence and merely the result of a series of unfortunate misunderstandings. The two protesters, who were part of a group of anti G8 activists, were trying to stop delegates from reaching a summit of the world's most industrialised countries and Russia in nearby Evian in June, 2003. When police cut the rope, apparently because of a lack of communication between the two officers, one demonstrator fell 25 metres and was badly injured. The other protester, a woman from Germany, was unhurt because other activists stopped her from falling. In a first reaction, the protestors' lawyer criticised Friday's ruling as "a stab in the back of the victims".During the five-day trial, he had argued that the police interference amounted to more than negligence. He also demanded financial compensation. The prosecution had dropped all charges against the policemen. It said the risky nature of the demonstration had outweighed the outcome of the police interference. The defence lawyers had demanded an acquittal. In 2004 a court found the demonstrators guilty of obstructing traffic, while an investigation into the two police officers was dismissed through lack of evidence.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=10...29000
Direct reaction of Martin and Gesine announced after we had left altogether the "hall of justice" in the middle of the verdict being read out:
“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 defend 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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