[Italy-editorial] attivista francese incatenato e tranciato

[di_zen]

hektisch at riseup.net wrote:

> i francesi m'hanno detto di guardare indy uk e che se hanno ulteriori info
> ce le mandano.


questa e' la ftr di indyUK
adesso LA TRADUCO, semmai la buttiamo su cosi e la modifichaimo man mano
di_zen

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300681.html

"A train carrying "Castors" of nuclear waste from France to Germany ran 
over a protestor who had chained himself to the tracks, severing one of 
his legs.Paramedics offered him emergency treatment and tried to get him 
to surgery but he died before reaching hospital.
The 23-year-old lay down and chained himself to the track as the train 
passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France. The train was 
carrying nuclear waste being sent back to Germany after reprocessing in 
northern France and had already been delayed for two hours while police 
cut free two other protesters who had chained themselves to a section of 
track.
Thousands of demonstrators have been gathering since the train set off 
on Saturday from the La Hague reprocessing plant in Valognes, 
north-western France, on its journey to the German town of Dannenberg.
 From Dannenberg the trains' 12 containers - holding 175 metric tons of 
atomic waste - are due to be shipped to a nearby dump at Gorleben, 12km 
away.
The French protests followed a protest by 10,000 people at the Gorleben 
site in Saturday. Background to Castor protests.

the main stream press is saying

A 23-year old environmental activist paid the ultimate price for his 
convictions on Sunday. Despite a large security operation, the young man 
managed to chain himself to the railway tracks near Avricourt, in 
protest of the latest transport of nuclear waste from a French 
reprocessing plant in La Hague to a storage facility in Gorleben, Germany.
A spokeswoman for France's SNCF rail operator said the train's driver 
noticed a group of people sitting on the tracks, and pulled the 
emergency brake. "One of the people remained sitting, and his legs were 
cut off and he has died," the spokeswoman said.

The French nuclear technology company, Cogema, said it regretted the 
"dramatic accident." A company spokesman in Paris said Cogema Logistics 
staff charged with overseeing the transport couldn't explain how the 
accident had happened.
The train loaded with highly radioactive nuclear waste had been stopped 
earlier on Sunday for two hours because of two demonstrators who had 
chained themselves to the tracks. The Castor transport was originally 
scheduled to arrive in Dannenberg, eastern Germany, on Sunday afternoon. 
 From Dannenberg, the containers are loaded onto trucks to be 
transported to the storage facility in nearby Gorleben.

The citizens' initiative in the Dannenberg region, which helps to plan 
protest action, said it was "shocked and disturbed" by news of the 
deadly accident. Organizers said they would discuss what consequences 
the news had for further planned protest action. Thousands of 
demonstrators have been gathering in Dannenberg since Saturday. In past 
years, the Castor transports saw violent clashes between anti-nuclear 
activists and police. The environmental group Greenpeace has warned that 
the Gorleben storage site is unsafe over the long term and risks 
contaminating ground water. "