Klimadetention: Aktivister havde ret

Climate Detention: Activists were right

Storage facilities in Valby arranged as climate detention during COP15. With 'lømmelpakkens' adoption, there may be useful for extension with 500 cell sites.

By Ole Christiansen Wugge / Monsun - 26 November 2009

Police Chief Inspector Per Larsen admitted Wednesday the 25th November, to a former warehouse because of Carlsberg in Valby is currently being constructed as detention for climate activists during COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December.

Also read "Disputed lømmelpakke was taken" on politiken.dk

Also read the "activist Detention: The police keep cards close to your body 'in Modkraft.dk

- We have created a site which may take a little more detainees than we can handle on our station, "Larsen said to dr.dk.

According dr.dk will accommodate 500 persons arrested in the former warehouse. The police are doing to establish cages in which detainees should be kept locked up.

The spokesman for the Copenhagen Police, Flemming Steen Munch had otherwise, as late as Wednesday afternoon to Modkraft.dk said that the police would not reveal its preparations, including the reasons behind Vigerslev Station was in play until everything was in place.

He declined while activist rumors that the containers are set on land must be used to capture facilities.

Lømmelpakke adopted

Police need a climate detention has not abated after the Folketing's adoption of a 'lømmelpakke' on Thursday 26 November.

The law gives the police, among other things greatly expanded powers to carry out administrative detentions of up to 12 hours without the detainee is suspected of wrongdoing.

The bills were passed by the narrowest majority in the form of government parties the Liberals and the Conservatives and Danish People's Party support. All others, including the Liberal Alliance, voted against.

The legislation is rushed through in order to achieve to make an impact during COP15 - despite sharp criticism from, among other High Court Judges, National Association of Defense Attorneys, probation Association, Dommerforeningen, Institute for Human Rights and trade unions.

Opposition will change the law after an election

The opposition promised during the third reading that will work to change the law after a change of government.

- It is clear that when a time comes a new majority with a new government will sit down and review its laws. It turns out that there will be major problems with this proposal - which I fear there will - we will make this law, said Karen Haekkerup, legal affairs spokesman for the Socialists, according Politiken.dk

She said during the debate in the Folketing, the new legislation is not directed against troublemakers, but citizens residing in the vicinity of the disorder.

- I almost think it is deceptive marketing when you called it lømmelpakken. It looks as though some other people. That this bill do not affect those who generate the city. It affects other people. It is sloppiness and it might be a poorly implemented knivlov, said Karen Haekkerup.

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Aktivistdetention: Politiet holder kortene tæt til kroppen
http://modkraft.dk/spip.php?article11995

Aktivister har opdaget et tomt fabriksområde, hvor de tror, at klimaaktivister skal tilbageholdes under COP15. Københavns Politi vil hverken af- eller bekræfte oplysningen.

 

Activist Detention: The police keep cards close to your body

Activists have discovered an empty factory area where they believe that climate activists to be detained during COP15. Copenhagen Police would neither confirm or information.

By Ole Christiansen Wugge / Monsun - 25 November 2009

Activists have website Indymedia.dk spotted an unused factory installations by Vigerslev Station, which they believe will be used as an activist during detention climate summit in December. The reason is owned by Carlsberg and lies idle.
Read the article 'Police activist-detention unveiled' at Indymedia.dk

The assumption about police use of the land during the climate summit builds on the activists that they have spoken with craftsmen in the area. They should have said that the buildings be used during the COP15 summit in Copenhagen.

"With its location in Valby halls are available to police anywhere in the city there would be problems," writes the anonymous activists to Indymedia.

Copenhagen Polilti: No confinement in containers

Factory area is filled with containers and activists have therefore suspected that the detained activists should be locked up in them.

It denies the spokesman for the Copenhagen Police Flemming Steen Munch, however, to Modkraft.dk

-It does not lie in the concepts I have seen. Here containers are used solely for police equipment, he says.

In addition, he refuses to comment on the police's preparations, including the factory site in Valby is in play as a police detention.

- We do not go with the details of our planning when we are not finished. Then we would run the risk of having to make guarding the fields. When planning is in place, we would like to invite the press to look at the situation, "said Flemming Steen Munch.

Secrecy at the Center for Construction

Nor does the Center for Construction in the City of Copenhagen, where to apply for temporary setups of facilities, will be heard - although Modkraft.dk being asked about the Deputy Head Henning Christensen as the responsible cooperation with the Copenhagen Police.

Copenhagen Police have inquired about permits for detention facilities?

- I can not answer, he says.

Is that a confidentiality requirement imposed on you?

- I have secrecy in all the work I do.

Can you by-or confirm that the Copenhagen Police has inquired about a plot by Vigerslev Station?

- It's confidential.

Can you or confirmed to buy Sea Police have inquired about the establishment of containers?

- It is completely confidential. I can not comment on, "he says.

Vestre Prison in games

Radio News to Wednesday, 25 November report that the Copenhagen Police will use gymnasiums, garages and double manned cells for detainees and prisoners on remand activists during the summit.

DR did not get the police to show how detainees should be placed, but the prison director Peter Vester unit says that Vestre Prison, among other things will arrange space for 40 people in the prison gymnasium. Others will live in pairs in one-person cells of eight square meters - the one in bed, the other on a mattress on the floor.