[Italy-editorial] sbirri a processo per il ponte di aubonne (en)

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Subject: [Italy-editorial] sbirri a processo per il ponte di aubonne (en)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:39:41 +0100
From: changsing <changsing at paranoici.org>
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	Court accepts activistsâ appeal.

	Police will be sent to court for bodily harm through negligence

	The Aubonne-Bridge Action against the G8, in which two activists,
Martin Shaw and Gesine Wenzel, nearly lost their lives as the police
cut their climbing rope, has entered an exciting new phase. The High
Court has accepted their appeal and overturned the decision of the
examining magistrate Jacques Antenen. He had previously ruled that
the police were not to be charged declaring that the incident was
produced by the activistsâ own temerity. The _Tribunal
dâaccusation du Canton de Vaud_ has now announced that âthe
investigation has already produced enough evidence to justify that
Michael Deiss and Claude Poget will be sent to trial under the
accusation of simple and severe bodily harm with negligence.â Until
now the criminal investigation has only been carried out against M.
Deiss, the policeman from Schaffhousen, Switzerland, who cut the
rope. Now the Court has acknowledged the activistsâ complaint and
declared that Claude Poget, the highest ranking officer on the bridge
âshould have been interviewed as accused.â

	âWe are very happy about this decision, but we have deep concerns
that the judicial system really wants to find out the truth.â said
Martin Shaw. âThey work on the pure assumption that no orders have
been given although the phone calls between the Poget and Christian
Flueli, his senior officer in the control center have never been
examined. This is an obvious step which we have been asking for since
the incident happened.â The Court considers that the investigation
supplements that the activists requested in their appeal are not
necessary. Gesine Wenzel says âThere is a definite refusal to find
out about the implications of the hierarchy. They aim to consider the
two accused policemen as the black sheep and the incident as an
accident. But if one really wants to avoid such dramas, the entire
system of police intervention and internal organization has to be
looked at.â

	Of this opinion is also the local parliamentarian Yvan Rytz who
handed in a parliamentary question to the government of the Canton de
Vaud. He states: âThe government canât ignore their responsibility
in this affair. The highest ranking officer on the bridge, a policeman
from the Canton de Vaud, did not follow official orders and itâs the
governmentsâ responsibility to react on those failures. They also
need to inform us which training the police have received concerning
different types of protest actions. For us it is clear that Shaw and
Wenzel have suffered enormously due to the actions of our policemen
and should be compensated.â

	29 parliamentarians from different parties are openly supporting
these concerns.

	The climbers who have suffered severe physical and emotional
injuries have received no compensation, whilst considerable amounts
have been awarded to shop-owners whose windows were destroyed during
the protests. âThis shows how the state protects property over
people's livesâ, concluded the activists. âThe decision of
tribunal is a first step. But it is important to remember that this
is absolutely exceptional and that most complaints about police
violence remain uninvestigated and never lead to prosecution.â

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