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November 28, 2011, Monday
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GERMAN police cleared a sit-in of thousands of protesters attempting to block a shipment of nuclear waste and detained 1,300 people yesterday, officials said.
Hundreds of officers started evicting protesters from the rail lines near Dannenberg in the north of the country early yesterday, police spokesman Stefan Kuehm-Stoltz said. Those who refused to leave were detained and are being brought before judges. It was not clear how many were still being held.
Police put the number of protesters at 3,500 while protest organizers said 5,000 people had occupied the tracks that will be used to transport a nuclear waste shipment reprocessed in France and now on its way to a storage site near the northern town of Gorleben.
Activists say the waste containers, and the temporary storage facility near Gorleben, are not safe.
Police also clashed with two groups of protesters that hurled stones and fireworks at officers. Several officers were injured and at least 10 people detained, Kuehm-Stoltz said.
Activists told the German news agency dapd that around 150 people were injured in the clash as police in riot gears dispersed some protests with tear gas and batons over the weekend.
The train carrying the shipment of 11 containers of nuclear waste reprocessed at France's La Hague facility entered western Germany on Friday after delays in France, where activists damaged railway tracks in a bid to halt the cargo.
The shipment paused overnight south of Hamburg and was expected to reach its destination later yesterday or today. Some 20,000 German police officers are on hand to secure the cargo.
A group of four activists used a pyramid-shaped concrete structure to attach themselves to the tracks near Dannenberg.
Hundreds of officers started evicting protesters from the rail lines near Dannenberg in the north of the country early yesterday, police spokesman Stefan Kuehm-Stoltz said. Those who refused to leave were detained and are being brought before judges. It was not clear how many were still being held.
Police put the number of protesters at 3,500 while protest organizers said 5,000 people had occupied the tracks that will be used to transport a nuclear waste shipment reprocessed in France and now on its way to a storage site near the northern town of Gorleben.
Activists say the waste containers, and the temporary storage facility near Gorleben, are not safe.
Police also clashed with two groups of protesters that hurled stones and fireworks at officers. Several officers were injured and at least 10 people detained, Kuehm-Stoltz said.
Activists told the German news agency dapd that around 150 people were injured in the clash as police in riot gears dispersed some protests with tear gas and batons over the weekend.
The train carrying the shipment of 11 containers of nuclear waste reprocessed at France's La Hague facility entered western Germany on Friday after delays in France, where activists damaged railway tracks in a bid to halt the cargo.
The shipment paused overnight south of Hamburg and was expected to reach its destination later yesterday or today. Some 20,000 German police officers are on hand to secure the cargo.
A group of four activists used a pyramid-shaped concrete structure to attach themselves to the tracks near Dannenberg.
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