Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:30:01 +1000
From: sjwright-AT-vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Steve Wright)
Subject: Re: Arrests in Amsterdam


The saga surrounding the Italian comrades who travelled by train over the
weekend to demonstrate in Amsterdam seems never-ending . . .

Just to quickly summarise more reports from the cs-list:

First the trains returning to Italy were delayed in Holland for 7 hours
plus. Then the German authorities said that the carriages couldn't cross
their territory "for technical reasons".  When they did finally enter
Germany, they were boarded by police and checked. The same thing was
expected to happen in Switzerland.

4 comrades were still being held in Amsterdam, and a demo had been called
at the Lambrate train station in Milan.

I'd be very interested to hear the thoughts of others on the points raised
by Harry. The whole affair seems a dangerous precedent (although it may not
be the first time it's happened, but I can't recall such a thing). Are even
so-called "football hooligans" subjected to this level of harassment? I
guess the authorities have never got enough "extra-comunitari" in one spot
to do the same to them.

And what other - if any- reports are there, both from comrades and/or the
media? Here the demonstration was mentioned on one news channel - as
largely peaceful, a few isolated "clashes", but nothing about the trains.

Steve




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