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WELL HUNG

As more radioactive material rumbles its way out of Germany by rail, protesters show more inventive and daring ways to blockade the trains. French activist Cecile Lecomte seized a small window of opportunity on Monday (27th) to hold up a Urenco train carrying 1,250 tonnes of depleted uranium through built up Germany by abseiling down into its path. Following a series of similar actions, the exploits of Lecomte and fellow activists have caused enough recent commotion to warrant the permanent carriage of police-appointed climbing specialists on all trains to cut the activists down from their path on non-electrified sections of the railway.

Going on information given to journalists from the federal police, the toxic cargo was heading for Duisberg and then onto France taking a direct path through the densely populated areas of Ruhr and the Rhineland - unbeknown of course to local inhabitants. It is speculated that it was destined for storage at Pierrelatte nuclear centre, where radioactivity was recently discovered in the nearby ground water. This action took place the day after the 23rd anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, the world’s worst ever civil nuclear accident.

* Pictures of the abseiling at www.anti-atom-aktuell.de/fotos/2009-04-27_uranzugstopp-haeger

Keywords: abseiling, cecile lecomte, chernobyl, depleted uranium, direct action, germany, pierrelatte, urenco


 

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