March for Freedom violently attacked by police in Luxembourg

Nieuws, gepost door: Freedom not Frontex NL op 05/06/2014 06:01:42

Wanneer: 05/06/2014 - 12:13

MARCH FOR FREEDOM GOT VIOLENTLY ATTACKED BY POLICE IN LUXEMBOURG!!!

10 people without safe status from the march were arrested during an action in front of a meeting of EU ministers of interior. Police is blocking the other remaining people. SHOW SOLIDARITY, SPREAD THE WORD! - Info from twenty past twelve today

Previously in Luxembourg

(photo of March in Luxembourg yesterday)

More updates to follow.



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nn

more info: 6 of the arrested are refugees - without warning police attacked the march trying to block the building where EU interior ministers were meeting. Police violence included pepper spray to the eyes, tear gas, dogs (several bite wounds) kicking and beating. After the protesters cleared the entrance they were encircled by the police and ten specific people were picked out of the protest and arrested!!! Charges still unknown!!! Please spread the word and get Luxemburg on the streets.

http://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/eu-innenministerrat-auf-kirchberg-demonstr...



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FNF

latest info: 12 arrests



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nn

There are several consulats and an embassy of Luxembourg in the NEtherlands. You can either pay them a visit or mail them the following message:

Today your police force brutally attacked and arrested 12 people of the March for Freedom in the city of Luxembourg. Release our freedom fighters! Let the March go and continue to Brussels!

First off: Embassy in The Hague:

M. Pierre-Louis LORENZ Ambassadeur extraordinaire et plénipotentiaire
M. Patrick Arend Premier Secrétaire
Nassaulaan 8
2514 JS LA HAYE
Tél. : (+31) 70 360 75 16
Fax : (+31) 70 346 2000
E-mail : lahaye.amb@mae.etat.lu



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nn

and now... the consuls!

Consuls honoraires

Maître Paul RUSSELL
Consul général honoraire du Luxembourg
Reimersbeek 2
1082 AG Amsterdam
Tel : +31 (0)20 301 55 55
Fax : +31 (0)20 301 56 78
E-mail : luxemburg@russell.nl

M. Tjeerd Schipper
Consul honoraire du Luxembourg
HS GL 14.15
Coolsingel 93
3012 AE Rotterdam
Tel: +31 (10) 401 61 36
Fax: + 31 (10) 401 59 09
E-mail : tjeerd.schipper@nl.abnamro.com

M. Fernand Jadoul
Consul Honoraire du Luxembourg
Achter de Comedie 8
6211 GZ Maastricht
Tel : +31 (0)43 350 14 90
Fax: +31 (0) 43 321 80 35
E-mail: info@consul.lux-FJadoul.nl



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nn

video of police violence http://www.wort.lu/de/videos/53904332b9b3988708031274



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nn

11 people got arrested today according to the latest info by the M4F



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nn

At 17.30h in front of city hall members of We Are Here have been violently arrested after provocations by the pigs:

https://www.facebook.com/lampedusainhamburg
http://hh-mittendrin.de/2014/06/lampedusa-in-hamburg-besetzt-rathausmarkt/



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Freedom not Frontex

We are working on getting more info about what happened today and what is happening with the arrested people. There are 11 people arrested, we know now.

Meanwhile: Solidarity actions at consulate and embassy of Luxembourg in Amsterdam and Brussels tomorrow

Brussels: 09.30 at the embassy: 75, avenue de Cortenbergh à 1000 BXL

Amsterdam: leaving from Vluchtmarkt, Ten Katestraat 49, Amsterdam: at 16.00 hrs. to go to consulate at Reimersbeek 2, 1082 AG Amsterdam



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Freedom Not Frontex

Untolerably brutality by police in our peacefull action in luxembourg. This is the reality of refugee politics in Europe. We doesn't even count as human beings. We don't have any rights here.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=644924665594373



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nn

Update: all the arrestants have been released last night and the march will continue today into Belgium.



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nn

Luxembourg the 5th of June, 2014

Today we were brutally attacked by police forces in Luxembourg during our peaceful blockade action against the summit of the European Council. While the Ministers of Interior Affairs of every EU member state were sitting inside behind closed doors speaking about the Mediterranean Task Force, the new Executive Director of Frontex as well as better ways to administrate the Schengen Area. As the agenda of the summit concerns us, the victims of their laws and policies, we wanted to send representatives of the Protest March for Freedom to read out our demands, since our voices – as a group that‘s fighting for the rights of the oppressed – should be the priority topic of such a summit. Our peaceful blockade got violently smashed by the police and security forces in and around the conference building. During their whole operation the police was not communicating with us in any way, even though most of the officers speak three languages (english, french and german). They ignored all our attempts to talk with them in order to explain to them that we want to talk in behalf of the refugees during the summit. Pepper spray attacks, beating with battons, kicks and bites of the police dogs were the only answer we received. The police also told us that in case we move further into the building where the summit took place, they have the authority to use their guns against us. Many of us got injured.

We pushed back and gathered in the middle of the square with our banners and loudspeakers. We held speeches in order to make ourselves be heard from the outside, as our demand to participate in the summit continued to go totally ignored. Once again we read out our demands, addressed the police burtality and asked the police over and over again to stop escalating the situation as we are a non-violent protest march well known in the public.

Then, after we announced that we will continue with our march and started to leave the police forces attacked our march once again. They surrounded us, blocked off all exits and started to attack us once more with pepper spray, physical violence and police dogs. Then they started to arrest the people from the march, targeting mainly refugees.

The protest march followed the arrested comrades to the police station escorted by dozens of police cars and police officers who on the way harrased over and over again those individuals from the march that were spreading flyers to the passing people. The march arrived at the front door of the police station and started a rally there. After several hours of protest our 13 comrades finally got released on a direct order of the ministery of interior affairs. According to our lawyer the ministery critisized the police for it‘s extraproportionary use of violence.

During the last twenty years – since 1993 – over 17 000 deaths have been documented in the mediteranean sea; People trying to escape from wars, poverty, exploitation and oppression. Though the problems that they are fleeing from are mostly caused by capitalist dominant countries, at the borders (of those countries) refugees face strong controls that are part of the racist policy that makes immigration ‚illegal‘. Human Beings who know that freedom of movement is their basic human right face military operations both at the border and in the sea. Closed borders and strong controls are ending up creating an ungoing tragedy in the mediterranean sea.

We condamn this capitalist system which is isolating people and is depriving them from their basic human rights just to keep the profit growing.

We also condamn the brutal behavior and criminalization of the Luxembourg police that acted illegitimately violent towards us. We are struggling non-violently for our fundamental rights like freedom of movement and residency. We do not allow state authorities to intimidate us with their illegitimate criminalization of our struggle, and we never give up.

Tomorrow we will cross the border between Luxemburg and Belgium that‘s supposed to be controlled because of the G7 meeting. The politicians that gather there are the heads of those states that are responsible for our situation and the criminalization of the people who are victims of their racist policies. We will not let them restrict our lives, our rights or our freedom of movement anymore!

So still we will cross the border in spite of the controls and therefore we call for your full support and solidarity. Especially media presence is in high demand!

We are here and we will fight – Freedom of Movement is Everybodies Right!

No border crossing is illegal!

Protest March For Freedom

WE ARE ONE!

http://freedomnotfrontex.noblogs.org/



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SOLIDARITY BEYOND BORDERS

Yesterday (05/06/2014), the Luxembourg police violently attacked the “March for freedom”, while migrants and activists were peacefully demonstrating against the summit of the European Council. One time more, institutions and cops showed their real face in front of people demanding freedom, dignity and rights.

From Rome, as self-organized social centers and anti-racist collectives, we strongly express our solidarity to who decided to refuse European migration policies, acting to publicly violating Schengen regime and its internal borders.

We support all the claims of the March for Freedom: freedom of movement and residency for all asylum seekers; stop the Dublin trap; permanent documents without criteria (not depending on working contracts or individual state prosecution); stop the imprisonment and deportation of migrants; same working conditions for all; same political, social and cultural rights for all; abolish Frontex, Eurosur and other anti-immigration policies and measures.

We’ll take part in the March in Brussels, June 26 to 28, to join the protest against the European Council of UE Interior Ministers about Asylum and Immigration policies.

Freedom of Movement is Everybody Right!

No border crossing is illegal!

ESC Infomigrante, Lab Puzzle & Astra 19, Yo Migro, Asailum (S.C.U.P.)



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Astrid Essed

PROTESTBRIEF AAN DE AMBASSADE VAN LUXEMBURG IN DEN HAAG

Zie ook

http://www.astridessed.nl/ march-for-freedom-violently- attacked-by-police-in- luxembourgletter-of-protest- to-ambassador-of-luxembourg- in-the-netherlands/

Beste lezers van Indymedia,

Ik heb de volgende protestbrief aan de ambassade van
Luxemburg in Den Haag gestuurd

Zie onder P/S

Vriendelijke groeten
Astrid Essed

TO THE CONSUL OF LUXEMBOURG IN THE NETHERLANDS
Mr P. Russell

SUBJECT
Police violence against peaceful demonstrators

Dear Excellency,

Hereby I want to draw your attention for the following

I have learnt with shock and indignation of the recent brutal
police attack on non violent demonstrators during the March for Freedom
at 5th of june. (1)
The goal of the attacked demonstration was a symbolic and peaceful
blockade of a building where EU ministers of Interior had a meeting
about EU asylum policy, at Kirchberg. (2), which has also
been criticized by Human Rights Watch (3)
According my information, 12 people were arrested, among
6 refugees, who are released now (4)

About the attack

Police was conducting very aggressive, there was (from the side of
the police) kicking and beating, pepper spray to the eyes, bloody faces
and people were bit by dogs.
On photo´s and a newsarticle, this violent police conduct
is to be seen (5)

About the goal of the March for Freedom

The demonstrators, who were attacked like that, participated
to the March For Freedom, a protest against the
European asylumpolicy, which violates human rights (6)
As you know, human rights organisations regularly
criticize the EUand EU countries regarding the asylum policy and their conduct
against the rights of refugees (7)

Brutal police attack is unacceptable

But even if you hold a different opinion about asylumpolicy,
that´s not the point here.
What matters is, that a brutal and violent police conduct, against
anyone, is unacceptable.
The police has to show respect for the rights of demonstrators
anf to behave like that.

Kicking, beating and biting people is out of the
question, which you will agree.

Happily, not all policemen conducted like that.
There was a group, which refused to use violence
against the demonstrators (8| and that´s to be praised
or to say it better
They showed how real police conduct should be.
With respect for the rights of any human being.

I urge to you to press the authorities of Luxembourg
to start a full investigation after the arrests of the March for Freedom
group at 5 june and to ensure, that in the following, the police will
respect the rights of demonstrators.

Thank you for reading this letter

Kind greetings
Astrid Essed
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

[1]

MARCH FOR FREEDOM VIOLENTLY ATTACKED BY
POLICE IN LUXEMBOURG
5 JUNE 2014

https://no-border.nl/march-for-freedom-violently-attacked-by-police-in-l...

PHOTO'S OF POLICE VIOLENCE IN LUXEMBOURG

http://www.carolereckinger.co.uk/#!/index/C00004c2oFLj3n1s/G0000dzJSTDLc_8U/1

[2]

''– Task Force for the Mediterranean
Information from the Commission and exchange of views
– Schengen governance
Fifth biannual report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the
functioning of the Schengen area (1 November 2013 - 30 April 2014)
Presentation and exchange of views ''

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS, JUSTICE 5 AND 6
JUNE
PLACE: KIRCHBERG CONFERENCE CENTRE, LUXEMBOURG

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/jha/143...

LUXEMBURGER WORT
AUSSCHREITUNGEN BEI FREIHEITSMARCH
5 JUNI 2014

http://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/demonstration-gegen-eu-asylpolitik-ausschr...

(3)

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
MAKING SAVING LIVES AT SEA TOP PRIORITY
5 JUNE 2014

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/05/eu-make-saving-lives-sea-top-priority

(4)

MARCH IN LUXEMBOURG/ARRESTED FREE, MARCH
CONTINUES INTO BELGIUM TODAY
5 JUNE 2014

https://no-border.nl/march-in-luxembourg-arrested-free-march-continues-i...

(5)

PHOTO'S OF POLICE VIOLENCE IN LUXEMBOURG

http://www.carolereckinger.co.uk/#!/index/C00004c2oFLj3n1s/G0000dzJSTDLc_8U/1

LUXEMBURGER WORT
AUSSCHREITUNGEN BEI FREIHEITSMARCH
5 JUNI 2014

http://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/demonstration-gegen-eu-asylpolitik-ausschr...

(6)

MARCHING FOR FREEDOM/DOCUMENTING A STRUGGLE

https://no-border.nl/marching-for-freedom-documenting-a-struggle/

(7)

´´“Evicting people is not the answer; a well-thought-out and appropriate health-care plan is what is needed. Sadly this isn’t new; the French authorities have a record of carrying out mass forced evictions without providing adequate alternatives for those evicted.”

FRANCE/FORCED EVICTIONS AT CALAIS CAMPS RISK
EXACERBATING HEALTH CONCERNS
28 MAY 2014

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/france-forced-evictions-calais-camps-risk...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
DELIVERED BY THE NETHERLANDS INTO THE CLUTCHES
OF A SUICIDE BOMBER IN SOMALIA
29 NOVEMBER 2013

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/delivered-netherlands-clutches-suicide-bo...

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
MAKING SAVING LIVES AT SEA TOP PRIORITY
5 JUNE 2014

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/05/eu-make-saving-lives-sea-top-priority

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
FRANCE/UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN DETAINED AT BORDERS
8 APRIL 2014

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/11/19/dispatches-deported-danger-somalia

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
DISPATCHES/DEPORTED TO DANGER IN SOMALIA
29 NOVEMBER 2013

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/delivered-netherlands-clutches-suicide-bo...

(8)

Bei der Räumung des Sitzstreiks der Lampedusa-Gruppe vor dem Rathaus verweigerten Polizisten den Befehl

http://m.taz.de/!139947;m/


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