Die Tageszeitung junge Welt: Police harassment of anti-racists in Belgium A week after sitting in the Brussels "No Border" camp-four activists still in custody

Original German at  http://www.jungewelt.de/2010/10-13/032.php

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10.13.2010 / Antifa / Page 15Inhalt 

Police harassment of anti-racists in BelgiumA week after sitting in the Brussels "No Border" camp-four activists still in custody 

By Matthias Monroy

The justification for the police action was "an imputed guilt by affiliation, including Marianne Maeckelbergh its report for 14 hours in Belgian police custody. The anthropologist and the author was on 1 October together with other five parties on the edge of an unannounced demonstration were arrested. The police had banned the elevator and announced to dissolve any gathering of five people. Dozens were arrested. Shortly thereafter, in the windows of a nearby police station had gone to break. Maeckelbergh had photographed a number of brutal police attacks until she was arrested even without warning by the head of the contested district. "I was beaten, spat on, repeated insulted as a' dirty whore'  clock in the morning to four chained to a radiator," said the U.S. activist. A man from Italy was they claim an "unbridled rage, as I had never seen him before endured." The hours of ill-treatment were observed by the head of the district through the open office door.
The torture-like conditions mark the high point of repression around the of 25 September to 3 October instead found "No Border" camp that was directed against the deportation policies of the EU towards refugees from other continents. Already at the opening demonstration in front of a detention center in the suburbs was the police with water cannons and horses reared and had arrested people en masse. Most activists, however, landed on 29 September in the clutches of the authorities when they tried to participate in a demonstration of 100,000 trade unionists against the Ecofin summit. We have 148 demonstrators "arrested preventively, the police spokesman said on evening. Most were released after several hours. All were photographed, however, who refused to was forced. This also shows in Belgium, a trend that neutralize leftist movements in international events with protest as a "preventive" measures trivialized. The EU operates to its own research programs in order to unify the repression. In manuals to officials are advised to obtain high arrest rates, the information superiority in mass media not to lose and to exchange data before and after protests.

According to investigation committee (EA) around 500 mainly "preventive" arrests were made, accompanied by identity checks and searches. In addition, the police have "systematically cameras, storage media and money withheld," without the person concerned to acknowledge the seizure. The only criterion to alleged membership of the police force at the No Border Camp. The EA now supports the action against the repression. Privacy activists encourage requests for information to the Belgian police. This is to determine whether the camp will be obtained personal information in police databases of other countries. In New York and London have already been held solidarity actions, the UN Committee against Torture called on to investigate the incidents. On Sunday, many people called for the Brussels Palace of Justice before the release of the four remaining detainees. During one of them still waiting on his habeas corpus, the other should have been dismissed by judicial order. After objection by the prosecution but they are up to at least the end of next week to remain in custody. Thus they may be more difficult to document the injuries sustained in prison.