A-Infos (en) Second Solidarios Action in Berlin

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Second Action of SOLIDARIOS con ITOIZ in Berlin

This morning (Tue, 25.01.00) at 6:30 3 activists climbed up the tv-
tower at Berlin-Alexanderplatz. They planned to install a hanging 
tent in order to sleep there and wanted to fix a 30 x 3 meter big 
banner saying ITOIZ ST AUDAMM STOP (ITOIZ DAM STOP) in a 
very high altitude, as high as the itoiz dam actually is: 140 meters. 
The tower is 365 meters high (with antenna). As the tower actually 
is cleaned on the outside the climbers could use the steel cables 
of the cleaning elevator. 30 minutes later 7 police vans were there, 
fire brigades too. A large number of press reporters showed up 
there soon, including one team in helicopter which transmitted live-
pictures for the breakfast tv. The Police said they would order 
climbing specialists from Munich (600 kilometers away) in order to 
get the activists down. Finally this squad didn't appear. While 
offering the possibility to SOLIDARIOS to show their banner for a 
few instances, and immediately finish the action without penalty, 
other police units managed to capture a part of the banner through 
a small bulleye- like window and cut it to pieces. The banner text 
that could be read and filmed for some time was "STOP ITO". After 
noticing serious problems with his climbing gear one of the 
activists decided to go down by himself. The strong wind that blew 
all the day (temperature -10 degrees centigrade) didn't allow to 
install the hanging tent. At 17:15 the other two climbers got down 
and were brought to police department. SOLIDARIOS con ITOIZ 
consider both actions to be succesful as German and basque 
media (and some spanish, too) did cover the action very well.  


The 7 activists who were arrested yesterday had to stay in police 
department overnight. At 13 o'clock they saw the judge denied to 
leave them in prison. At 15:30 all seven appeared at Alexanderplatz 
and supported their comrades' action. All activists, those from 
yesterday and today, surely will have to expect a fine not yet 
defined.




e-mail: solidarias@gmx.de
Fax +49-30-28389345
Website European Tour: s-o-s-itoiz.org.uk
Photo of yesterday: www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de/events.html
German texts & German Infotour information: www.infoladen-
daneben.de (See: "Termine")



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