1.00 - The Castors have reached Dannenberg, they shall be lifted on the articulated lorries during the day.
9.30 - Pudripp - Civil officer threatens woman with pistol.
A civil car of the police [means undercover] drove into a sit-down blockade of about 30 people so that a woman fell down with a chair. When other bystanding people demanded the driver to show his ID, he drew his pistol. The woman wants to make a complaint.
11.10 - The third Castor is on the semitrailer.
11.30 - 90 Police vehicles and a water cannon start of towards
Quickborn, some minutes later another 100 cops and two more water
cannons.
13.00 - In Bremen pupils try to occupy the city hall, but it
doesn´t seem like they have a real chance. (Radio-news)
13.00 - In the forest in Langendorf about 200-300 people are
surrounded by police. All in all about 800 people are somewhere in that area.
The people are outside of the 50-metres-zone near the street (where
demonstrations are prohibited) so the police action is illegal.
13.15 - Three prisoner-transporters 200 more cops are on the way to
the people in Langendorf.
ca. 13.40 Police officially said that they will arrest all the people surrounded in Langendorf, and starts doing it.
14.00 - Sixth Castor on the semitrailer.
14.42 - An ambulance of ParaMedic, on the way to injured people in
Kaltendorf is stopped and held back on the way
News from Hanau. This morning there was a rally with 400 pupils
15.20 - Poelitz - 200 protesters got evicted from a peaceful
sit-down with police using batons
16.00 - Langendorf - still 100 people surrounded by police.
16.40 - Kacherien. The ambulance of ParaMedic is not only prevented
from their work, but is officially ordered to leave !!!
17.25 - Report of the EA : 100 arrests up to now. At the peaceful
sit-down in Poelitz 28 people were tied up and then left sitting on the street
for 45 minutes, then taken to the barracks.
17.30 - In Hamburg 500 people protest against the Castor-Transport.
Many of them are coming here afterwards
17.45 - Report of PARAMEDIC about the incidents in the afternoon: A
doctor from Herford sits in the ambulance and watches a prisoner lieing on the
ground. As he wanted to walk up to him he is pushed back with physical
violence. Doctor and driver are pushed back to the ambulance with the police
insulting them. The Police (Duisburg) threatens to arrest them.
In Langendorf after restricting her to get to an injured person, a doctor
is threatened to get the ambulance seized if she would not leave. - No reasons
given.
17.45 - It seems like it´s impossible to get across the
northern route. Every few metres there is a police van filled with
cops.
18.20 - Report of a journalist from the surrounded people in
Quickborn. When he and other journalists arrived, the police made a
photography-restriction. While the journalists had to wait in cars for the
thorough inspection of their press/identity cards, they were filmed themselves
by an documentation and evidence gathering unit. When they complained about
the filming, the police (coming from Thueringen) told them that that is a
police-action. Quotation: "Then we´re allowed to do
everything.".
19.30 - Dannenberg/loading-crane - The sit down blockade in
front of the crane is at the moment about 4000 - 5000 people strong. All the
time more people join in. The leader of the police operation explained that
police will start evicting people during the night. The reason they said: At
night there are less children at the action.
The Campaign „Umweltschutz Lüchow- Dannenberg e.V." suspects that the police wants to evict at night to make it more difficult for the press. All the day police units kept jounalists of their work.
23.15 - Quickborn.Ca. 300 people try to get on the road of the
northern route but they fail (no arrests). Simultaneously a convoy of tractors
try to get on route but they also fail.