Tag: G8
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Water cannons to neighboring countries: Germany leads cross-border support against mass protests
Dutch police spray demonstrators off the street with German water cannons. This cross-border cooperation has been a unilateral tradition for 20 years. For days, tens of thousands of activists have been blockading the government quarter in The Hague following a call by the group Extinction Rebellion. To clear an occupied highway, Dutch police deployed water […]
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EU Arrest Warrant: Last Italian G8 prisoner again not extradited from France
For the third time, a court in France rejects the Italian arrest warrant for the anarchist Vincenzo Vecchi. The 49-year-old Italian is to be imprisoned for summit protests in 2001. France’s prosecution can appeal one last time. More than 20 years after the protests against the G8 summit in Genoa, an appeal court in Lyon […]
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Undercover operations: UK special court sentences police for sexual relations
In at least 27 cases, British police officers have deceived women and entered into intimate relationships with them in undercover missions. According to a verdict handed down yesterday, the police force in charge also interfered with the physical integrity, privacy and political activities of those involved. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London ruled yesterday […]
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Using false documents against “Euro-anarchists”: the exchange of Anglo-German undercover police highlights controversial operations
Examination of several recently exposed cases suggests that the main targets of police public order operations are anti‐globalisation networks, the climate change movement and animal rights activists. The internationalisation of protest has brought with it an increasing number of controversial undercover cross‐border police operations. In spite of questions about the legality of the methods used […]