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- From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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- Subject: NEWS: More Arrests in Cherbourg (7-Nov)
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- Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:13:20 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]
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- "It is clear that plutonium and democracy do not mix."
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- MORE ARRESTS IN CHERBOURG FOLLOWING DARING INFLATABLE ACTION
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- CHERBOURG, France November 7, 1992 (GP) Another fourteen
- Greenpeace activists were arrested today following a daring
- action in which seven inflatables entered Cherbourg port while
- the Japanese plutonium freighter was being loaded with its
- deadly cargo. The inflatables converged on the entrance of the
- port at around 10:30 (local time) defying the huge military and
- police presence there. Climbers scaled a crane close to the
- military arsenal and hung a banner which read: "STOP PLUTONIUM".
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- Each of the inflatables carried a flag bearing an anti-radiation
- symbol. The boats were pursued by French commandos for 20
- minutes inside the port.
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- A military helicopter and two naval patrol boats chased a large
- Greenpeace rigid-hulled inflatable out of the port, flying very
- low over the heads of the crew.
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- "If the Akatsuki Maru leaves Cherbourg today, it will trigger
- a global trade in weapons-usable plutonium," said Greenpeace's
- Damon Moglen in Cherbourg.
-
- "Nearly every large nuclear state has its hands dirty with this
- shipment -- the US and Canada had to give their approval for the
- transport as they supplied the original uranium to Japan; the
- UK is using the shipment as a test-run for its own plutonium
- factory at Sellafield; and Japan and France are ensuring
- plutonium's continued supply and demand."
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- "What we are seeing in Cherbourg today is just the beginning
- of a whole era of lethal shipments of this utterly redundant,
- deadly material from the UK and France to Japan."
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- Earlier today the Greenpeace ship Moby Dick was boarded by
- French commandos and towed to the military arsenal. The captain
- of the Moby Dick is still being held for questioning inside the
- arsenal. Two people from a Greenpeace inflatable were injured
- and hospitalised after being rammed by a French rigid-hulled
- boat.
-