| NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN POLICE CELL: The 26-year-old French climbing and Robin Wood activist, Cécile Lecomte, has had a nervous breakdown in the sobering out cell where she’s being held in a Braunschweig police barracks. She was arrested in Lueneburg on Thursday where she had abseiled from a railway overpass together with other Robin Wood activists. Anti-nuclear activists in Braunschweig say she was not allowed to switch off the light at night and was denied fresh air during the day, allowed only a brief walk outside with her hands tied. For a long time she had no writing utensils and no toilet of her own. “Psycho-torture against a person incarcerated not for something she’s done, but only to prevent her takijbg part successfully in more protests against the CASTOR transport,” writes Peter Dickel of the group resisting the Schacht-Konrad nuclear dump near Braunschweig. “Yesterday we had a short opportunity to talk with Cécile Lecomte. She had a nervous breakdown and needed treatment by a doctor.” After protests on Saturday the group set up a permanent vigil to stay in place until Cécile Lecomte comes out. Anyone is welcome to take part or inform themselves. At 2 pm there’s to be another info and solidarity assembly and the press are invited to a conference about the conditions of arrest and the background to the “preventive arrest”. |
