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Good morning, I am reporting from the legal emergency team.

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We are present here in Rostock during these days

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to give legal support to all people who show resistance against the G8.

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I would like to particularly address 2 aspects today

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which are arrests and inhibition of the right to assemble and demonstrate 

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and on the other hand police brutality.

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I would like to start with the first one.

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We have increasingly noticed that Kavala ignores the right to free speech

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and limits the right to assemble.

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Our efforts to intervene and negotiate yesterday

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to let the demonstation march the route intended have failed.

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We observe that Kavala in fact has taken all power from the local police,

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determines justice and represents its own power in the state.

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Secondly police brutality, we had to observe horrifying facts:

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I will show you a picture.

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I will explain you this picture.

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It shows a situation on June 2nd,

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at the location Warnowufer at Kanonenberg.

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You see a police boot and a person on the ground.

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The background: this person was knocked to the ground.

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The young man lay flat on the ground, face down, did not move

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still an officer hit his head several times to the ground.

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Then a 2nd officer came, pulled a white t-shirt over his head 

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and pulled it tight around his neck.

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People gathered around this man and the police officers,

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it was attempted to inhibit documentation of this police brutality.

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Yet one person managed to take pictures between police boots

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and was also arrested in consequence.

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Other photographers must have been there,

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I ask them to please get in touch with legal emergency services.

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I assume that now with this picture known to the public

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the police will start to investigate because of physical violation while on duty.

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Should this not happen we will press charges.

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One further observation: especially foreigners suffer from police interventions.

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They are treated differently than supposedly German persons,

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e.g. concerning time spent under arrest.

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The people remaining in police custody are predominantly foreigners.

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Among them are many Europeans who should be treated equally

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according to EU treaties,

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still they are being discriminated against.

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So far my report.