Wednesday May 9th, 2007 19:37 Germany,Berlin - deomstrations against the anti-g8 raids

In Berlin at least seven flats and office spaces are being searched, amongst which two offices in Bethanien, a social centre in Kreuzberg, Berlin, and the Fusion shop in the same district. The latter is a space used by an antifascist organization and the Interventionist Left. Moreover, a bookshop in Mehringhof and the office spaces of several alternative media projects in Lausitzer Straße have been searched.
The criminal investigation police was putting special attention on the alternative Internet server so36.net. Many left and alternative projects have their websites, mailing lists and mail adresses hosted there. This way, the communication structue of the anti-G8 movement is hit on a sensibel point.
The reason for some of the raids is the "forming a terrorist association" paragraph 129a.
At the 14.00 they have done a press conference to explain that the context of a §129a investigation are instrumentalized in order to gather data about the protest movement. Besides, such measures have, most likely intended, intimdating effects.
Only 2% of all $129a investigations result in sentencing. However: "Who invites the G8 summit, also invites the protest against it", explains Hanne Jobst of the Berlin Bethanien office.
"All attempts to criminalize this movement will not prevent us from exposing worldwide inequalities during the G8 summit."
The repressive acts of the criminal investigation police are not entirely surprising. The left and radical left resistance against the G8 has reached an uncontrollable level for the police. "So far, the police only tried to split the resistance in the public media through hallucinating about an army of ’anarchists’. Now they will try to sabotage the organizational structures", Jobst explains further.
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Deomstrations against the anti-g8 raids:
Berlin, 8pm, Mariannenplatz (Kreuzberg)
Breaking News:Over 5000 people are now in Kreuzberg to do a demostration against g8 and to show that it’s impossible to stop the movement.
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