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Today 25.03.2008 the same six persons that tried to enter Romania a couple of days ago, have retried to do it without having anti Nato material, and anti - violence material (quoting the representative from the border police). After 2 hours of being searched again and again, the police deported them by force again even if they had no reasons to do it (yes in violations again of many things, any surprise there?).
today around 12.15 we arrived at the serbian border near the town dimitrovgrad.we were not surprised to be called out of the bus together with another woman from iraque but with swedish passport,because we had our experience with the serbian border last time where the border control made some of us take off their clothes until the underwear and was checking for something quite badly on the breasts and even part of in the underwear.they took us out from the bus and started to look in all our stuff in the bags.they found some patches,stickers and papers,which they first had to take to their boss what took them quite a long time in which we could hear the telephone ring tone of one of the border control which contained obviously a part of a speech of hitler where he called the germans 1941 to the war.after around one hour checking our stuff and investigating us about where we have been we got told that we were not allowed to enter serbia with the first explanation that it was forbidden to enter with our stuff.
Today 2 of the people that were stopped at the Romanian Border are denied the right to leave Bulgaria.
After deciding to return to Germany 2 of the group that were retained at the Romanian Border got into a tourist bus with the destination Germany. At the serbian border they were taken out of the bus and sent back to Bulgaria. How can anybody ... any country deny the right of anyone's right of returning home?
If we were surprised by the Romanian decision of refusing to allow 6 people into Romania just beacause of having anti nato flyers, patches and posters cause it was in violation with human rights, it came to us as a shock to see that this is not something so surprising in this fascist Europe.
We arrived on March the 20th at about 8 o'clock in the evening at the Romanian border in Calafat. The border police ordered us to park our two cars beside and started to search them completely for four hours, looking after drugs, weapons and explosives as they said. We had none of that with us but they took all our info material, including books, pamphlets, posters and even patches, buttons and t-shirts away to copy, photograph and document them. Furthermore they took away our laptops for about ten hours, one of them got obviously opened, some screws were missing. Two women got body searched for injection marks. It was obvious that they were looking for a reason to send us back. At three o'clock in the morning they started to interrogate us one by one. The interrogations where made by two guys (one leading interrogator probably named Mr. Zagrabu) from the secret service (SRI) and a translator for English. They where lying about certain laws (not connected to the anti-NATO summit, or political activism), we might have broken, to have a reason for the start of the interrogation and by this as well trying to spread some panic. But soon coming to the point of political activism and the upcoming NATO summit in Bucharest. They where pretty obvious in their aim all along. Our refusals to answer questions, making return questions and claiming for legal support, wasn't really expected by them. After trying it over and over again, playing the nice cop and the bad one, or trying to split us up, by offering some of us that they could leave without the others immediately (without any cooperation from our side), they gave up after three interrogations.
After the experience of yesterday , all the people that what to cross the border now should keep in mind that the border police ( Romania authorities) will look for the smallest and most ridiculous reason not to let them cross the border in Romania. Since weeks ago media is creating a false imagine of anarchists that will come in Romania and starts violent riots, just to give an excuse for the police repression.
So for your security we advice you not to take with you: drugs, weapons (that could also mean pepper sprays although they are legal in Romania but they could also can be bought in Romania, cheap-3 euro), info material (we don’t know exactly what kind of materials they are looking for, but for sure anti-nato, ant-globalization…), or any kind objects that you think could be a potential reason of trouble.
Law breaking as a European standard, Romania shows its democratic side with more repression.
Since the Romanian N.AT.O. Summit was confirmed; people who do not agree started their own camping against N.A.T.O. While the summit preparations were in progress the corporate main-stream media started its own campaign of misinformation and public opinion manipulation against the critical point of the anti-militaristic movement. Using only the violent imagines from protest and presenting wrong facts, they turned the opposition to war, militarism and alliances like N.A.T.O. into a monster that is going to attack Bucharest. All this misinformation created a reason for the authority’s repression. The future repression was shown as a measure of security, typical N.A.T.O. strategy (creating an enemy to have an excuse for a war). Yesterday 6 persons felled the repression of the border police 19 hours long, when they tried to enter in Romania. All of then were germane citizens, they were coming to express their opinion and disagreement about the N.A.T.O. politics. They brought few anti- N.A.T.O. materials (that contained only public information like a visitors guide, a legal guide…), c.d.-s with documentary movies, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters all on the subject of human rights.
there was no info event planned in Nis, so we had a few days off. a special thanx to the nice people from "malo kucence" ("little puppy") who let us stay at their place and the great time we had there. we are really glad we met you and lookin forward to see you again.
We arrived on the 12th in Bratislava - we came a bit too late for the start of the info-table in the city center (thanx to the Dutch manual), but the police had forced the others from the local collective already to break up the info-stall. So we went to their local meeting point, passing by time till the info event in the evening. Around seven we started with this. The info evening took place in the cityhall and around 50 people joined us. We talked together for about 3 hours about the NATO summit and the autonomous counter event, later a movie was shown (the 4th world war). Sadly not all of us could watch it, because some of us had to convince the police to take off the parking claw from the tour-van. We couldn’t get rid of them and their fine – unfortunately the police headquarter watched us all the time over surveillance cameras and ordered the cops on purpose. The ripped us of the distro money from that night, but we shared with the local collective (here a big thanx to our good negotiator / as well as to our strasny navigator for all the fun). We went afterwards to a flat to drink and discuss much more until everybody fell asleep.
… so far our info tour was full with great experiences.
in connection to the autnonomous counter summit in Bucharest (28th of march till 5th of april)
yesterday we began the tour.- we arrived around 7 in the anarchist infocafe krtkova kolona in prague -.the infoshop was full and we discussed with people about the situation in Romania and the upcoming NATO summit over 1 1/2 hour - we exchanged information regarding
the local scene, possibilities of state and fascist repression during the counter summit - a tip for people who want to travel there: get your local legal support informed about your plans, because there is right now no alternative legal support network in place in Romania - the discussion continued till late at night at the squat Milada, also involving April 2008 action days for squatting fortress Europe.
thanx for the medical aid stuff, the translated copies, the nice sleeping place (Milada rules!)
for people planning to travel to Bucharest, we still have contacts to people all over Europe with free seats on the way - so get in contact over
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Today 25.03.2008 the same six persons that tried to enter Romania a couple of days ago, have retried to do it without having anti Nato material, and anti - violence material (quoting the representative from the border police). After 2 hours of being searched again and again, the police deported them by force again even if they had no reasons to do it (yes in violations again of many things, any surprise there?).
Today 2 of the people that were stopped at the Romanian Border are denied the right to leave Bulgaria.
We arrived on March the 20th at about 8 o'clock in the evening at the Romanian border in Calafat. The border police ordered us to park our two cars beside and started to search them completely for four hours, looking after drugs, weapons and explosives as they said. We had none of that with us but they took all our info material, including books, pamphlets, posters and even patches, buttons and t-shirts away to copy, photograph and document them. Furthermore they took away our laptops for about ten hours, one of them got obviously opened, some screws were missing. Two women got body searched for injection marks. It was obvious that they were looking for a reason to send us back. At three o'clock in the morning they started to interrogate us one by one. The interrogations where made by two guys (one leading interrogator probably named Mr. Zagrabu) from the secret service (SRI) and a translator for English. They where lying about certain laws (not connected to the anti-NATO summit, or political activism), we might have broken, to have a reason for the start of the interrogation and by this as well trying to spread some panic. But soon coming to the point of political activism and the upcoming NATO summit in Bucharest. They where pretty obvious in their aim all along. Our refusals to answer questions, making return questions and claiming for legal support, wasn't really expected by them. After trying it over and over again, playing the nice cop and the bad one, or trying to split us up, by offering some of us that they could leave without the others immediately (without any cooperation from our side), they gave up after three interrogations.
After the experience of yesterday , all the people that what to cross the border now should keep in mind that the border police ( Romania authorities) will look for the smallest and most ridiculous reason not to let them cross the border in Romania. Since weeks ago media is creating a false imagine of anarchists that will come in Romania and starts violent riots, just to give an excuse for the police repression.
