Re: German activists to block resumed nuke transports

[hughesj@songs.sce.com]

"The transports have pitted the government coalition of Social

Democrats and anti-nuclear Greens against grassroots activists..."



Actually they may be more than just grassroots activists:



                                                                         

 --RIGHT-WING NEO-NAZI GROUPS WILL JOIN LEFTIST ANARCHISTS WHEN A        

 PENDING transport of waste is shipped from France to the interim        

 storage facility at Gorleben later this month. Criminal investigators   

 in the state of Lower Saxony reported that Neo-Nazi leaders have called 

 on their faithful to join the mass demonstration against the            

 transports, claiming that "environmental protection is the same as      

 protecting the (German) motherland." Last week, federal crime agencies  

 said that leftist anarchist groups in Berlin were getting organized to  

 march on Gorleben later this month. At issue is a pending shipment of   

 reprocessing waste from German spent fuel in France which has been      

 scheduled to be returned to Germany since 1997. While leftist groups    

 have been active in violent clashes with police during nuclear          

 transports to Gorleben since 1993, this is the first time that          

 right-wing extremists have likewise prepared to demonstrate, police     

 said.