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Belgian police act brutally against protesters
October 11, 2010 (MO) - The Belgian police acted brutally against protesters on October 1 of the No Border Camp. One of the victims, Marianne Maeckelbergh to the University of Leiden researching democracy and social change, was the violence at first hand experience. She wrote a poignant testimony and draw pertinent questions.
The No Border Camp is an annual gathering of two networks that oppose the boundaries that divide people and against the repression that divide people within countries. This time the venue Brussels. One manifestation of the activists were brutally ended by the Belgian police. A quote from the testimony of Marianne Maeckelbergh:
"For fourteen hours I was detained and subjected to their violence, their authority, their arbitrariness. I was beaten, spat upon, several times called a 'dirty whore' and chained to a radiator for four hours in the morning. This was done right beside the open door of the office of the police, who saw it all happen and just responded with silence. The police chief and I also witnessed the violent beating of another person arrested, who also was chained to a radiator. The police cooled their anger on anything that looked like I had ever witnessed. The young man fell to the ground while he was the only French word he knew screaming: "Non, non, non." Terwil I saw this happening, chained to the radiator next to the office of the police, I wondered what country I was, how such things could happen in this world, and where democracy and justice were gone? "
Read the full testimony and the fundamental questions that Marianne Maeckelbergh it connects in English (because she wants to give international publicity). We work with the author of a Dutch translation MO.be will appear later.
The police meanwhile speaks against violence and find the statements inadmissible Maeckelbergh Marianne.
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