[Dissent-fr-info] Copenhagen

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- Danish police arrest 35 climate protesters
- International medics targeted by police at COP 15
- 11 Greenpeace protesters held after EU summit stunt
- Surveillance data to be delivered to the police
- Danish Police Seize Protest Equipment
- COP15: First demo on the move
- COP15: German activists eye Bella Center

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Danish police arrest 35 climate protesters

COPENHAGEN: Danish police on Friday arrested 35 anti-capitalist climate
protesters as a preventive measure due to suspicions they may commit illegal
acts, a police spokesman said.

The 35 Danes and foreigners, members of the "Our Climate - Not Your
Business"
group, were taken to a detention centre set up especially for the UN climate
conference and could be held for up to 12 hours without charges being
pressed,
police spokesman Rasmus Bernt Skovgaard said.

Police also arrested five other people for various misdemeanours, Skovgaard
said.

More:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Danish-police-arrest-35-


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International medics targeted by police at COP 15

11 members of the Action Medics group were detained by Copenhagen cops today
before even reaching a demonstration.

Medics including two qualified paramedics, two Red Cross cadets and other
trained first-aiders from the UK, Norway, Germany and other countries were
stopped in a series of incidents in the Christianshavn area. They were
searched
three or four times each, photographed and held in cages at Valby temporary
police station for 6 hours. Arresting units included numbers 702 and 724.

More: http://indymedia.dk/articles/1510


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11 Greenpeace protesters held after EU summit stunt

BRUSSELS - Eleven Greenpeace activists were arrested after breaching
European
Union (EU) security and carrying out a climate protest as European heads of
state and government arrived for a Brussels summit, the group said Friday.

The protesters surprised arriving VIPs, including British Prime Minister
Gordon
Brown, as they jumped out of vehicles in a "Greenpeace motorcade" before the
summit got underway on Thursday.

Wearing fake access badges, the protesters chanted slogans, handed out
tracts
and unfurled banners reading "EU Save Copenhagen" during their brief
intervention under the eyes of the world's press and bemused security
guards.

More:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20091211-241378/11-Greenpeace-protesters-held-after-EU-summit-stunt


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Surveillance data to be delivered to the police

The Central Office of Roads (vejdirektoratet) has made a secret and most
likely
illegal deal with the police about delivering video material of big roads in
the Copenhagen area after the climate conference.

The Central Office of Roads monitors big roads to gather statistical
information
about traffics. It's normal to gather this kind of information, and they
don't
save the data but deletes it regularly. They don't monitor all roads,
but it's
normal to monitor major traffical intersections in Copenhagen. According
to the
personal data legislation, it is only legal to monitor public roads if
they can
guarantee that the data is deleted again.

More: http://indymedia.dk/articles/1473


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Danish Police Seize Protest Equipment

Jens Dresling/Associated Press

Colored shields, fluorescent tubes filled with a mix of oil and paint, boxes
with paint bombs and several bolt cutters were on display after being
confiscated by Danish police during a pre-dawn raid in Copenhagen on
Wednesday.

COPENHAGEN — Nearly 200 makeshift shields, scores of paint bombs and other
equipment, including nine platforms with crude staircases, were seized early
Wednesday in a police raid on a building that city officials had provided as
free housing for activists visiting Copenhagen during international climate
talks here.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/science/earth/10protest.html


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COP15: First demo on the move

A demonstration is under way – the first of the COP15 Climate Summit, with a
start-up group of some 100 demonstrators under a ‘Don’t buy the lie’ slogan.

The following list of 15 companies and organisations has been handed out to
demonstrators as targets for the demonstration.

DI (confederation of Danish industries)
Hopenhagen
Bright Green Xpo at Forum (arranged by DI)
Danish Energy Association
McDonalds
Dan Forestry
Plastic and Packaging Industries of Denmark
Dansk Byggeri
Deloitte
ArcelorMittal
Mandag Morgen think tank
Repsol
Shell
Maersk
Ieta - International Emissions Trading Organization

More: http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article857437.ece


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COP15: German activists eye Bella Center

200 activists meeting in a culture hall in Kreuzberg near Berlin to
discuss how
to take over COP15 at the Bella Center for a day. – Foto: Astrid Dalum
Activists from Berlin have planned how to take over COP15. Politiken was
at the
final planning meeting.

By Laura Marie Sørensen, Berlin

They know how wide the stream around the Bella Center is. They know the
lay of
the land, and they’ve found out that swimming goggles are the best
protection
against teargas.

German activists from Berlin have prepared themselves well on how to
take over
the Bella Center, and they will soon be on their way to Copenhagen.

More: http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article856355.ece

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