Good morning, I am reporting from the legal emergency team.
We are present here in Rostock during these days
to give legal support to all people who show resistance against the G8.
I would like to particularly address 2 aspects today
which are arrests and inhibition of the right to assemble and demonstrate
and on the other hand police brutality.
I would like to start with the first one.
We have increasingly noticed that Kavala ignores the right to free speech
and limits the right to assemble.
Our efforts to intervene and negotiate yesterday
to let the demonstation march the route intended have failed.
We observe that Kavala in fact has taken all power from the local police,
determines justice and represents its own power in the state.
Secondly police brutality, we had to observe horrifying facts:
I will show you a picture.
I will explain you this picture.
It shows a situation on June 2nd,
at the location Warnowufer at Kanonenberg.
You see a police boot and a person on the ground.
The background: this person was knocked to the ground.
The young man lay flat on the ground, face down, did not move
still an officer hit his head several times to the ground.
Then a 2nd officer came, pulled a white t-shirt over his head
and pulled it tight around his neck.
People gathered around this man and the police officers,
it was attempted to inhibit documentation of this police brutality.
Yet one person managed to take pictures between police boots
and was also arrested in consequence.
Other photographers must have been there,
I ask them to please get in touch with legal emergency services.
I assume that now with this picture known to the public
the police will start to investigate because of physical violation while on duty.
Should this not happen we will press charges.
One further observation: especially foreigners suffer from police interventions.
They are treated differently than supposedly German persons,
e.g. concerning time spent under arrest.
The people remaining in police custody are predominantly foreigners.
Among them are many Europeans who should be treated equally
according to EU treaties,
still they are being discriminated against.
So far my report.