we had it televised on national scale here; it's just utterly unfair if it all went like I read. I'd almost protest officially against the Czech government ;) in fact I should and make a clear stand, as just one individual, caring about such festival spirit to be saved. Things like the Love Parade and different tribal gatherings around created a spirit fo freedom at least for a while, with no harm intended to anyone Mario
z66 schreef: > Czechtek 2005 is the 12th annual freetek party in open nature. This > year's self-organized freetekno event met unusual hostility from the > Czech police. Starting the morning of Friday, 29th July, the first > soundsystems and visitors gathered on a legaly rented land near the city > of Milec. In the morning hours the police blocked the exits from the > higway D5, causing an 8 kilometres long traffic jam. According to > eyewitnesses, the police officers were trying to stop people from > exiting the highway towards Milec based of their looks. Around 150 > people sat on the highway requesting that they are allowed to continue > their way to Milec. After 6 hours, following an ultimatum, at 13.00 the > Czech police used water-guns and heavy force to clean the blocked > highway. Abandoned cars were pulled away. The police continued to block > the highway exits, as well as several ways around Milec. > > The official police statements said that the legal contract between the > owner of the land on which Czechtek 2005 should take place is invalid. > The Czech Minister of (wrong: Justice) Internal Affairs Frantisek Bublan > of the social-democratic party CSSD, stated that the contract is invalid > and that the owner of the land revoked it. Later, Friday the contract > got into the media, as well as several interviews with the legal owner > of the land, confirming his support for the event and the validity of > the contract. Following his statement the Czech Senator JaromÃr Å tÄtina > and the Czech Green Party requested that Minister Buban stops the raid > against citizens of Czech republic which have not commited any crime by > their gathering on a legaly rented land. Nevertheless police continued > to block the area without reason. > > During night several thousands of visitors managed to pass the police > blockage, leaving their cars behind on the roads. The Czech police was > getting reinforcements from Pilsen, coming by vans and buses. Saturday > morning the free techno party was having 5000 visitors and around 300 > cars that managed to get on the place. The soundsystems started to play > music. > > The Speaker of the Czech police stated that the visitors damaged > neighbouring lands while trying to pass their blockage. The landowners > filled a legal complaint against the organizers of Czechtek 2005. The > citizens of Ãjezd pod PÅimdou, a small town near the place of CT 2005 > signed a petition and handed in to the main Police Commander requesting > that the participants are allowed to continue their way. The streets of > the city were filled up by cars and people who failed to go through the > police street cordons. > > The police redirected cars comming from Germany to the border in > Rozvadov to other border crossings. According to police statistics 105 > out of 249 foreigners were turned back on the borders on the base of > "colored old cars, haircuts and tatoos". The highway D5 was closed on > both sides between 128 and 135 km. > > At 16.25 the police requested that the 6000+ participants leave the > gathering otherwise a police action will follow. The assault started at > 16.30 supported by around thousand riot cops massively using tear gas > and trying to push the visitors out from the place. The assault was > answered by throwing of various object at the police cordon and people > shouting "gestapo" at the policemen. According to eyewitnesses the > police used water to damage the soundsystems and unconfirmed messages > speak about the usage of gum projectiles and frequency jammers to > disprupt the mobile networks in the area. The "shadow minister" Ivan > Langer sharply criticizes the police assault saying that it's a > political decision imposed by the Prime-Minister JiÅÃ Paroubek (CSSD). > On the weblog of Czechtek a request for solidarity was posted asking > people to join a demonstration in Prague at 19.00 in front of the > Ministery of Justice. The police assault ended around 19.20 (before the > evening news) resulting in 50 injured people both on the sides of police > and the participants. The organizers of Czechtek 2005 stated that they > are going to appeal to European Court for Human Rights in Strassbourg. > > The second wave of police assault started around 21.00 with the goal of > pushing out the remaining people. The brutal and irrational assault and > police hostility are attributed to the government leading party, CSSD > (social democrats), and are viewed as a residuum of Communist thinking > as well as a populist attempt to get some attention before the coming > elections. The so-called democracy in the Czech Republic as well as a > "borderless" vision of the EU manifested itself in a xenophobic attempt > to supress a manifestation of a freetekno subculture. > > http://indymedia.h-k.sk/newswire/display/84/index.php
