The NATO summit in Bucharest took crucial decisions with far-reaching consequences for the alliance.

1. NATO expansion to the South and East

Five states will join NATO next year or later: The three balkan states Croatia, Albania and Macedonia (FYRoM), as soon as its dispute with Greece over the country's name has been solved. Furthermore, the NATO summit decided that Georgia and Ukraine will become members of the alliance, but without setting a concrete date, for this to happen. This was a NATO-typic compromise: US President George W. Bush wanted to admit both countries, former parts of the Soviet Union, as early as next year, while Germany and France - also due to legitimate Russian concerns - where against this proposal.

In preparation for the NATO summit and during the period of the NATO Summit in Bucharest, the Romanian state and Bucharest city government may have violated all or more than the following Romanian Constitutional articles:

1. Article 21 Access to Justice
2. Article 23 Individual Freedom
3. Article 24 Right to legal counsel
4. Article 25 Freedom of movement
5. Article 29 Freedom of conscience
6. Article 30 Freedom of expression
7. Article 39 Freedom of assembly
8. Article 40 Right of association

"Hasotti about the case of the anarchists: An eventual injustice is better than tolerating a total mess

The vicepresident of PNL , Puiu Hasotti , believes that the intervention of the police on the group of anti –NATO militants from Timpuri Noi hall is oportune , stating that “An eventual injustice is better than tolerating a total mess”

Romanian Gendarmerie contends that anti-NATO anarchists that came out foundering from the police station have “tormented themselves”, bumping against the walls.

The representatives of the Romanian Gendarmerie have crossed the senseless line when they claimed that the striplings that came out of the police stations with black eyes and with their faces hurt have “tormented themselves”.

The NATO summit in Bucharest took place between April 2-4. Activists from Romania and abroad organized “Anti-NATO Days” between March 28 and April 5, as a form of protest. What follows is a daily chronology of events, starting with the repression and abuse by border guards, police and the mass-media, to the actions of solidarity by human rights organizations and foreign activists.

Some 20 anti-NATO protesters left Friday, around 18.15 local time, towards the Embassy of the Czech Republic, where they will display a banner written with a message criticizing the Czech Republic’s decision to accept elements of the U.S. missile shield on its territory.

When leaving the base in Bucharest’s Timpuri Noi area, they did not chant anything and they did not display any banners, flags or insignia. The 12 are escorted by police units.

They will go from the Timpuri Noi subway station to University Square, from where they will head towards the Czech Embassy.

A detachment of gendarmerie units waited, Friday evening, for the some 20 anti-globalization activists heading for the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bucharest. The protesters do not have an authorization to rally.

The budget that the Romanian Government gave Bucharest City Hall for the organization of the NATO summit, between April 2 and 4 reached some EUR3.7 million, according to Bucharest general mayor Adriean Videanu.

Programs unfolded in this period included the creation of the single traffic lane using some 22,500 large plastic buoys, 11,500 lane separators, 2,500 small buoys and 3,200 light reflecting buttons.

Markings placed on Bucharest streets were also part of the “marking program” that city authorities usually unfold.

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Today at 3 pm a cheerful crowd came together near the Romanian embassy in Berlin to show their unlimited solidarity with those anti-Nato activists who are in Bucharest at the moment. With banners and speeches they also showed their resistance against NATO and the worldwide madness of armament, that inevitably leads to war.
The rally began with a live talk with one of the activists in Bucharest who described the violent arrest of 46 people in the Convergence Center and other repressions and gave an update about the spontaneous action that took place yesterday in Bucharest.
The next speech was held in front of the US-american embassy and informed about the US plans for military bases in Czech and Poland and the international action day (29.3.) against it.

Two German nationals, part of a group of anti-NATO protesters detained by police on Wednesday, asked for legal assistance Thursday in view of a possible suit against Romania over police brutality.
The protesters were contacted by lawyers with two non-government organizations and they were taken official depositions on the events occurred Wednesday.

“Our lawyers are trying to evaluate their chances to win a possible suit against Romania, considering what they have been through Wednesday. We cannot say for certain if they will sue Romania on their behalf,” an official with the Legal Resources Center in Bucharest said Thursday.

4. April 2008

The Common Voice from the anarchists and anti-militarists who gathered in Bucharest in April 2008 to protest against the NATO summit

As long as there will be war, as well as systems and organizations that support militarization, murder, and profit-making from conflicts, there will be always movements protesting against them. Nowadays NATO is the most influential military alliance in the world. That’s why wherever a NATO summit will take place there will be people resisting it. Bucharest is not an exception.

In spite of the media intoxication as well as governmental repressions, which started already months before the summit, hundreds of anti-militarists both, Romanian and international, gathered in the capital city, Bucharest.

Some 40 militants left Thursday, around 17:30 local time, in a march from their base in Bucharest’s Timpuri Noi area carrying flags with anti-NATO writings.
The flags carried by protesters read, in Romanian and English, “Ne-ati zdrobit oasele, dar nu si ideile / NATO out of Bucharest” (you have crushed our bones, but not our ideas) and “Stop the war, stop NATO”.
The protesters were chanting “Stop the war” and “Stop NATO,” while one of them pounded on a drum.

The group reached the National Forensics Institute where they required official examination of the wounds they claimed were inflicted by police during an intervention Wednesday.

A vulgar anti-NATO inscription in Serbian was seen Thursday morning on the outer wall of the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, at the media entrance.
The inscription, which read “NATO picke” was noticed by journalists Thursday morning.

As soon as cameramen started filming the inscription, colonel Adrian Nica of the Security and Protection Service, or SPP, stood in front of the respective wall to prevent media from filming or taking photos of it.

from Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review, 31 March 2008:

Romanian intelligence services have already identified the first organization that organizes anti-NATO Summit acticities, daily Gardianul reports. Sources from the intelligence services told the Gardianul that dozens of persons suspected of intending to sabotage the event were thoroughly monitored.

According to the daily, the respective sources, say that the core of an anarchist organization was identified at Iasi, where the anti-NATO militants met under the direct coordination of a non-governmental organization. The identified nucleus of the group is an association from Iasi called Centre for Art, Media and Social Action whose militants intend to go the next days to Bucharest.

Find here a list of romanian embassies in each country of the world for showing solidarity.

One day before the start of the Nato summit in Bucharest the situation gets worse. Hourly alternative looking people are detained by the police for no reason. Afterwards the police construct absurd offence, for example carrying a pocketknife amounting to possession a weapon. Every person coming to or leaving the convergence center is in danger of getting detained (some simply for walking to a nearby shop). The detained are interrogated, photographed and fingerprinted in police stations, and held for up to 24 hours.
At the Romanian border several groups of activists, as well as others, have been denied entry into the country.

NOTE: This is not a collective statement, but rather an individual eyewitness report from an indymedia journalist who was involved with the anti-NATO mobilizations in Bucharest

Breaking News – Mass Arrest of demonstrators in Bucharest

Bucharest, Romania, April 2, 2008

(Please see www.contra-doxa.com for more background info on the NATO
summit in Bucharest, as well as the anti-NATO convergence)

At approximately 12:30pm today, hundreds of police descended on the
convergence center of the anti-NATO gathering in Bucharest. At this
point, some organizers on the scene estimate that 46 arrests in all have
been made. All the arrests were made inside the convergence center.
There was no demonstration happening. Many of the police were wearing ski
masks, and were very hostile to journalists trying to access the scene.

The anti-NATO protesters detained for questioning in Bucharest on Wednesday were nationals of Germany, Romania, Moldova, Portugal, Spain and Poland, Bucharest police chief Marian Tutilescu said in a press conference.
He said the bulk of the 54 protesters were Romanian and German nationals – 26 and 22 citizens, respectively.

The 17 women in the group were allowed to leave shortly after they were brought in for questioning at a police precinct in Bucharest, Tutilescu mentioned.

Some 50 anti-globalization protesters, of which many detained and released on Wednesday, came during the evening to Bucharest’s precinct no. 12 to show their solidarity with the militants detained there.

The protesters decided to walk from precinct 11 to precinct 12 after finding out that one of the protesters was supposedly hurt during the intervention of the law enforcement, without benefiting from medical assistance.

They walked the distance between the two precincts holding banners that said “This is how democracy looks like? Police and Army against citizens-2008” or “Free Anti Militarists, close the NATO".

Romanian security forces intervened on Wednesday at 14:00 local time to evacuate the 50 anti –NATO militants who had leased a space in the Timpuri Noi Factory in capital city Bucharest.
The police officers took into custody ten German militants.