Antirepression



People who have been arrested during the G 8, please, note the following:
The legalteam/EA has remarked that many arrested people have spent unjustified long time in the detention centres and even after the order by a judge to be immediately released they were kept in the prison. In order to assess the conditions of the detentions and to start a complaint, we ask you to fill out the form and to send it back by fax or e-mail. [PDF-Form...]


Legal Team Telephone Number for the G8 summit:

0049 - (0)3820 - 4768111


WHEN THE GOING GETS ROUGH


[PDF...]		 WHAT FOREIGNERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GERMAN
POLICE AND LAWS AS ANTI-G-8 DEMONSTRATORS IN
HEILIGENDAMM, GERMANY
Published and translated from the German original by the Rote Hilfe e.V.


Biggest Police Operation In German History For G8
The "biggest police operation in the history of Germany" is taking shape at a beach resort on the Baltic coast as the June 6-8 summit among the Group of Eight (G8) nations approaches.

Sightseers are already heading to the environs of Heiligendamm, the remote seaside venue chosen by the German hosts as the summit, to ogle at a 2.5-metre-high welded-mesh fence topped with barbed wire which has already been built round the resort.[more...]


[PDF...]		 What do you do in critical situations?
The first rule is: Don’t panic!
Edition 2007, Rote Hilfe
This is the basic rule of every emergency plan, and therefore also our own. It should help to prevent your arrest or your preliminary proceedings from turning into a catastrophe.
Arrest during demonstrations or other activities, seizures of leaflets, newspapers etc., house searches, orders of punishment, and finally, trials – these are the measures anyone is confronted today who is politically active in the fight against exploitation and oppression, regardless of whether she or he is an anti-Fascist, an anti-nuclear activist, an anti-militarist, a communist, or an anarchist.

G8 '07 - Visitor Winner's Guide
Never been to Germany before?
This summer's G8 summit offers a welcome opportunity to meet with cosmopolitan friends. This leaflet is designed to prpare you for the confrontation with the state. [read more...]

New Anti-Repression Film for the G8 2007
New 20min Clip about german police strategies and laws, especially for the G8 2007 in Heiligendamm. For moblilization and preparation... [read more...]


Police powers and presence for the G8 summit

What to expect and how to protect yourself

In 2006, the regional parliament of the German state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern (hereafter M-V), where the G8 will take place, passed a new Security and Public Order Act which increased the powers of the police during protests. Officially, the Act was passed in the name of the fight against terrorism and organised crime, but as the timing of this legislation as well as Genoa, Gleneagles and the World Cup have shown, these legal and executive powers are predominantly used to police demonstrations at summits and football events. [Read more]


Self-portrait of the Rote Hilfe (Red Aid)
The Rote Hilfe [Red Aid] is a solidarity organisation supporting politically persecuted people of the left-wing spectrum. It concentrates on politically persecuted people in Germany, includes, however, also persecuted people from other countries according to its possibilities. [more...]

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Straftat/Delikt
Offences
Delict

Landfriedensbruch
Rioting/breaching the peace
Rellen/Het verbreken van de openbareorde

Sachbeschädigung
Property damage
Zaakbeschadiging

Widerstand gegen Vollstreckungsbeamte
resisting an official in the performance of the official’s functions – Civil disorder
Niet opvolgen van een bevel van een ambtenaar in functie –
Verzet tegen een ambtenaar in functie What is meant by this? In dutch you have two offences which could be meant by this: belemmering van een ambtenaar in functie bij het uitvoeren van zijn taak (obstruction of a police officer to proceed with his duty) verzet bij arrestatie (resistance when arrested)

Nötigung
coercion
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Personenkontrolle
Identity checks
Identiteitscontrole

Inflagranti
To be caught red-handed
Het betrappen op heterdaad

Haftbefehl
Warrant of arrest
Arrestatiebevel

Polizeihaft
custody
Inverzekeringstelling

Durchsuchung
search
zoeken

Beugehaft
Preventative detention
Preventief ophouden

Übertretung
infringement
Overtreding (in dutch you have the difference between crime (misdrijf) and minor offence (overtrading); the difference is defined by the place in the law where it is written. All small offences are written in legislation made by ‘lower’ government and the last part of the Book of Penal Law)

Buße
fine
Boete

Haft
detention
detentie

Gefängnis
imprisonment
Inbewaringstelling

Anwalt
lawyer
Advocaat

Befragung
interrogation
verhoor

Aussageverweigerungsrecht
Right to keep silent
Zwijgrecht

Opferhilfestelle
Centre for victims of violence
Het slachtoffercentrum

Verdachtsmomente
Suspicious facts
Verdachte feiten

Beschwerde
Complaint against police
Klacht tegen de politie

Unentgeltliche Rechtspflege/ Amtlich bezahlter Anwalt
legal aid
Juridische bijstand

Missbrauch
abuse
Misbruik

Amtsmissbrauch
abuse of power
Machtsmisbruik

Körperverletzung
physical harm
Lichamelijk letsel

Tätlichkeit
assault
Aanval

Verhaftung
arrest
Arrestatie

Anhaltung
police detention
aanhouding

Protokoll
minutes
Notules??? What is meant by this?

unterzeichnen
to sign
Te ondertekenen

Repression
repression
repressie

Zeugenaussage
witness statement
Getuigeverklaring

Nationalität
nationality
Nationaliteit

Aus der Haft entlassen werden
to be released from detention
Heengezonden worden

Einreisesperren
entry ban (entry refusal at the border)
Het niet meer welkom zijn/ geweigerd worden aan de grens

Untersuchungsrichter
The examining magistrate
Rechter-commissaris