Legal Update Heiligendamm February 9th 2007

[taken from Gipfelsoli Infogruppe]

  • 09.02.2007
    Local newspaper reports that police units are searching abandonned companies for setting up flexible, mobile prison cages. These are known from anti-nuclear protests.

  • 05.02.2007
    Local newspaper reports that owners of camping sites near Heiligendamm work
    together with the Ministery of Interior

  • 03.02.2007
    German Office for the Protection of the Constitution publishes a text about
    berlin groups preparing against G8. They are blamed as "left-extremists" that want to change the system. Most quotes were taken from a dissent!-brochure.

  • 29.01.2007
    Chief of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Fromm intentionally misinterprets militant attacks as violent against people, although all militant attacks have been against private property.

  • 23.01.2007
    A Youth Centre in Erlangen (Bavaria) was searched for flyers against NATO- and G8-summit.
    pushed to his back, and was pressed towards the fence.

  • 17.01.2007
    Before the NATO conference in Munich (Bavaria) police raided 11 locations to confiscate a flyer against NATO- and G8-summit. 9 people were taken to the police station, 12 computers were seized.

  • 13.01.2007
    Federal Minister of Interior, Schäuble (CDU), gives public warnings concerning anti-G8 "left extremist terror groups", claiming they are networking with groups such as ETA in Spain, and FARC in Colombia, without giving any proof.

  • 12.01.2007
    Local Newspaper reports that german Army is preparing for G8. In March there will start common trainings with Army, Police, Fire Brigades and Medics.

  • 12.01.2007
    Police raided Köpi squat in Berlin for reasons of licence violation. They are very interested in Anti G8-material.

  • 11.01.2007
    The main responsibility for security will be taken by the
    "Innenministerkonferenz" (Conference of federal ministerials of Interior).
    Their new chairman, Körting (SPD), states that the threat at G8 is bigger than at the world soccer championship.

  • 11.01.2007
    Minsiter of Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Caffier (CDU), raises the amount of police for the summit from 12.000 to 16.000.

  • 09.01.2007
    Vice Admiral Kühn from german Navy announces "civil-military-collaboration"
    forthe G8.

  • 06.01.2007
    Around the meeting to plan migrant actions for the G8 several racist stops and ID checks happened. Police intimidate participants.

  • 17.12.2006
    It became public that Office for the Protection of the Constitution tried to hire an informant in Frankfurt/ Oder. Beside other incentives money was offered by an undercover policeman to participate and then give information from theDissent!-meeting in Osnabruck.

  • 08.12.2006
    Company MZS from Bargeshagen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, gets the bid andstarts to build the fence.

  • 23.11.2006
    Federal Criminal Police Office and police state that they had to face lots of activists from other countries that might be "violent". These protestors will be stopped before leaving to Heiligendamm. Also Islamistic terrorists "might be interested". Security forces are "very concerned". For the first time it was announced that also the sea in Heiligendamm will get a fence of 12 kilometres length.

  • 22.11.2006
    In Rostock the security conference SECON took place. It was a meeting of heads of police from G8 countries and Europol. Two topics were on the agenda:
    Evaluation of the world championship and the organization of security
    architecture against G8 protests. After the conference the chief of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Ziercke, said to the press that the G8 will face "security requirements as never seen before".

  • 14.11.2006
    "Kavala" threatens that are not willing to tolerate any blockade during the G8 and that blockades will be evicted immediately.

  • 09.11.2006
    Police release that the number of police in "Kavala" are raised from 100 to
    126.

  • 04.10.2006
    Official request for police forces from other federal states was announced.

  • 02.10.2006
    "Kavala" moves from Rostock to the police barracks in Waldeck. Waldeck is
    located 25 kilometres in the south of Rostock, directly at the motorway and
    close to the airport Laage.

  • 29.09.2006
    The advertised bidding for the security fence is announced.

  • 21.09.2006
    Knut Abramowski, chief of "Kavala", claims publically that their job is
    primarily to secure the meeting of the G8, secondarily to care about
    demonstrations. It becomes public that for the G8 air and sea are controlled by Army and Navy.

  • 11.08.2006
    After an action of collectivly swimming by hundreds of people in Heiligendamm police attacks returming activists in a train with pepperspray. Children in the train are nearby and affected by the spray.

  • 04.08.2006
    Meanwhile the "CampInski", a preparation camp against the G8, police announce "security level 4" for Heiligendamm and its surroundings. This allows them to stop and check people without suspicion. Heiligendamm is 35 kilometres away from "CampInski".

  • 01.07.2006
    Berlin Verfassungsschutz ("Berlin Office for the Protection of the
    Constitution" places at least 4 informers in the Berlin Socialforum. 3 of them were involved in G8 preparations.
    a festival in Dorfen (Bavaria) police seized some anti g8-materials.

  • 01.07.2006
    Knut Abramowski, head of "Kavala", writes a welcoming note for George Bush that will visit Stralsund (near Rostock).

  • 27.06.2006
    New police law for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania decided in the parliament. It makes it more easy for police to make passport-controls, video surveillance, DNA analysis, etc.

  • 25.03.2006
    It became public that Ministery of Interior Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
    Formed a special police unit for preparing the summit. Its name is "BAO Kavala" (which somehow ryhmes with "riot" in German) and started with at least 100 policemen.
    Half a year later it came out that they are already working since January 1st 2006. Their leader, who calls himself "Polizei-Fuhrer", Knut Abramowski,
    participated at past summits such as the WTO in Hong Kong 2005 or G8 2005 in Gleneagles

  • 22.03.2006
    G8 Ministers of Interior meet in Wismar to plan G8.

  • 02.02.2006
    New police law for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (the region/"bundesland" is announced.

  • 01.01.2006
    Since the beginning of 2006 the police have a station in the "dorf" of
    Heiligendamm, with a population of 200.