German Police To Use
10,000 Officers To Ensure Passage of Nuclear Waste to Storage Site
November 15, 2005 — By Associated Press
BERLIN — German police announced
plans Monday to use 10,000 local and federal officers to ensure the free
passage of a train that is to deliver nuclear waste to a disputed
northern storage site early next week.
Police said they are bracing for about 5,000 protesters, in line with
last year's turnout, but representatives from a local protest group said
they anticipate closer to 3,000 demonstrators this year.
In recent weeks, an arson attempt and two rail-line attacks have
occurred in advance of the delivery, police official Friedrich
Niehoerster said. The train is scheduled to leave a reprocessing plant
in La Hague in northwestern France on Saturday evening and arrive in the
northern German town of Gorleben on Monday night.
Protesters have staged a total of 28 anti-atomic energy demonstrations
and camps along the 1,600-kilometer (nearly 1,000-mile) route,
Niehoerster said.
At last year's demonstration, a 21-year-old French protester died from
injuries he received when he was run over by the train in eastern
France.
Source: Associated Press
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