[imc-presse] [Cja-press] VIDEO RELEASED OF COPENHAGEN DELEGATES AGRESSIVELY INTIMIDATED BY POLICE

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17th December 2009
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VIDEO RELEASED OF COPENHAGEN DELEGATES AGRESSIVELY INTIMIDATED  BY POLICE

Video came to light today of COP15 delegates being aggresively intimidated
by police. (1) http://bit.ly/6DOBHe

Many delegates who marched out of the UN talks during Wednesday's protests
were intimidated and threatened with arrest by Danish police, preventing
them from joining a People's Assembly outside the conference.

Danish police were filmed as they surrounded and attacked official delegates
who were attempting to join activists and other accredited delgates to form
a Peoples' Assembly calling for climate justice.

Kevin Smith from Carbon Trade Watch, who was hit by the police on the
bridge, said: "We were trying to reach the point where the Peoples' Assembly
was being held in order to have a discussion about the need for real
alternatives to the false solutions being promoted inside the climate talks.
It's hugely shaming for both the UN and the Danish government that they are
willing to use batons, pepper spray, police dogs and tear gas to try and
stop these critical discussions from taking place."

Camila Moreno, a representative from Brazil for the Global Justice Ecology
Project: "It was a trap. They knew it, they never had any intention of
allowing us to get to our friends on the other side of the bridge. It was a
combination of the Danish police and the UN."

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger from the Indigenous Environmental Network said:
"They didn't want information from those on the inside being conveyed to
those on the outside, especially by strong voices from the global South."

Dorothy Guerrero, Focus On The Global South representative from the
Philippines, said: "The restriction on our movement hindered the Peoples'
Assembly, which was an alternative space from the official agenda. For many
of us from the South we are used to seeing that in our own countries, but
for a country that has a reputation like Denmark it is quite shocking. The
fact that they are shutting people out is in many ways like shutting out the
majority voice."

ENDS

NOTES
(1) Footage available on youtube http://bit.ly/6DOBHe
Video by Jess Worth from the New Internationalist
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