Monday, November 28, 2011

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After five days of protests around the 13th Castortransportmit been highly radioactive waste to Gorleben on Monday prepared for its final stage. In the loading station in Dannenberg, a crane lifted the eleven vessels gradually from train to truck, to drive them the 19 miles in the Gorleben interim storage facility. Hundreds of anti-nuclear activists blocked roads in Wendland and expected an eviction by the police.


The train with the Castor from the French reprocessing plant at La Hague on Monday morning had reached after approximately 110 hours, the loading station in Dannenberg near Gorleben, Wendland. Thus the transport is already before reaching his goal on the road as long as no one before him. The previous peak of 2010 did the Castor, the need for the route 92 hours.

Close to the Gorleben interim storage facility to gather Monday afternoon, according to the anti-nuclear X-initiative around 1600 thousand protesters cross a road blockade. A police spokesman said there were about 500 The atmosphere on site was "peaceful and relaxed," he said. Farmers from the area would just behind Dannenberg at Splietau also blocked with 25 tractors one of two possible routes that the trucks can take to Gorleben.



End of Umladeaktion expected for the afternoon

The same road was declared to a few kilometers further on small Gusborn blocked by four Greenpeace activists, who had anchored inside a van in the asphalt. With a similar action, the environmental group the Castor 2010 had stopped for hours. Operational control of the police stood by its own account one at a difficult last section. He expects "smart blocks", said the police chief of Lüneburg, Frederick Niehörster in Dannenberg.

Exactly when the convoy of flatbed trucks in Dannenberg is set off, was initially unclear. Nuclear power opponents expected the end of Umladeaktion for the afternoon. Was previously expected to dissolve the police roadblocks, said a thousand times with X-cross. The operator of the interim storage, the Society of Nuclear-Servive (GNS), the loading of the eleven had for around 120 per ton Castor estimated around 15 hours. By noon, according to observers, nine Castor had been loaded.

The Castor transport is 13 controversial in the Gorleben interim storage facility and the twelfth, who comes from La Hague. He was started on Wednesday, but was held up by massive protests. A railway blockade by activists of the so-called Peasant Notgemeinschaft shortly before Dannenberg had gone in on Monday night after 14 hours by a voluntary renunciation of nuclear opponents to an end. The police had failed to destroy the structure of concrete, stuck in the arms of three men and one woman.

Police denies allegations

Caused controversy for the accusation of anti-nuclear activists and some politicians, the police are disproportionate crackdown on demonstrators. Federal Green Party leader Claudia Roth had said at the weekend by an "attack on democracy". The Chief of the German Police Union (DPolG), Rainer Wendt, denied this. Officials had exercised "mildest intervention resources' use, he said on Monday the television station N24.

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