It's not all been doom and gloom for Critical Mass cyclists this week, there's been some good news from Brighton. On Wednesday (1st) Brighton magistrates found an accountant guilty of assault for his attack on a cyclist on the 30th of September last year during one of Brighton's monthly bike rides. Merc driving berk Christikas Zantis assaulted at least six people after he and family were slightly inconvenienced by having to wait a bit for the cycle traffic to pass. Having pushed one cyclist over in strop, he then punched another woman in the face when she tried to take a photo of his first assault. There's a video of the bust up on youtube. Initially charged with four counts of assault, this was whittled down to two for the courts. He was found guilty on both of them. It gets better- not only was he fined £1750 and ordered to pay £1200 costs and compensation, but it looks like the twat will probably lose his job as well.
We caught up with one of the Critical Mass'ers he'd assaulted- “It's funny- we found out that he's been boasting online about his kick-boxing moves but seriously his punch was really shit. It was one of the worst punches I'd received in my life. Even my grandmother punched harder than that.”
Environmental activist is released after seven years imprisonment.
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Activists gather outside UN talks at Doha, Qatar as negotiators pretend to debate climate change.
Anti-Nuclear activists blockade UK plants to protest the extent of destruction upcoming expansion will cause.
UPDATE: The sh*t's well and truly hit the fan since we published this interview last week... Stay tuned for more SchNEWS from the front...
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