Re: Demonstrator died in protest against transport of nuclear waste

[Ivor Surveyor <isurveyor@vianet.net.au>]

At 05:37 AM 11/10/04, you wrote:

>I suppose the news media would consider this incident to be further

>evidence of how dangerous nuclear waste can be.

>

>

>----- Original Message -----

>From: Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>

>To: 'RadSafe Listserver (E-mail)' <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

>Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 2:39 PM

>Subject: Demonstrator died in protest against transport of nuclear waste

>

>

> >

> > According to informations of police on Sunday (Nov.7) a young man has

> > died during protests against the transport of "Castor" containers with

> > nuclear waste from the Cogema company in Normandy to the intermediate

> > storage site of Gorleben (in Germany). The demonstrator had chained

> > himself to the railway tracks close to Nancy (France). Before the

> > incident a man and a woman had chained themselves to the tracks, the

> > train was delayed for two hours until the police had broken the chains.

> > Altogether about a dozen anti-nuclear demonstrators had been at the

> > site. The train was not able to stop in time and both his legs were cut

> > off by the train. Despite desperate attempts of the accompanying first

> > responders his life could not be saved.

> >

> >

> > ANY COMMENTS????

> >

> > Franz

> >

> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>





Page 3 of the Australian [wednesday 10 november] shows a picture of a group 

of protestors chained to the very same railway.

" Amid sorrow and anger over the death of the 21 year old man , who had 

attached himself to the track near the eastern French city of Nancy, a 

number of defiant activists blocked the tracks near Uelzen in northern 

Germany."