In December protests were held at the EU summit in Copenhagen. Ian Lynch
attended the demonstrations and tells Workers Solidarity a little about it.
On the morning of the 13th, while up to 50 'Politi' raided the offices of
the service provider for many left-wing alternative websites in Denmark
there was a march, called by 'global rodder'(global roots) of about 1000 on
'bellacenteret', the appointed place for the summit talks. After this
another march had an anti-racist/Fortress Europe theme and saw a few
thousand march from the west of the city, past boarded up McDonalds,
Burger-Kings, to the centre of the city.
The morning of the 15th saw the biggest manifestation of the weekend, with
10,000 people from many diverse groups marching in opposition to not just
the policies, but the very existence of the European union. During the
demonstration, many undercover police tried to join the march, however
their disguises were so ridiculous, that they were easily spotted and
surrounded in a doorway, a thrown bottle cutting one of them on the side of
the face, before they made a hasty retreat
It must be said that before the weekend, most of the groups taking part in
the protests had signed an agreement with the police, agreeing that no one
within their ranks would take part in any 'violence'. They had planned on
having a meeting after this march, on the subject of 'violent protestors',
thus succumbing to the hysterical media clichés, concerning
violent/non-violent protestors, and ignoring the issue of police
provocation/brutality. In response the Anarchist Federation called a
protest, whilst this meeting was taking place, against 'police state
Europe', which marched on the prison 'Vestrefaengsel'. On the way back into
the centre, the march (which remained peaceful throughout) was completely
surrounded by riot police, who tried to provoke (unsuccessfully) and snatch
protestors out of the crowd. As the demo was reaching its destination, it
was reported that the police had managed to arrest one of their own
(undercover), much to the amusement of the crowd.
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