Personal account from the Usine
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  01-06-2003 22:50
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  Eyewitness account of someone who has just come from Usine.  
     
  this is an eyewitness report from someone who has just come to the dispatch center from Usine. All afternoon and early evening, there was some rioting that moved toward the Usine. At the beginning it was in the Rue Basses, and then it moved toward the Usine, in front of the Hotel de Finance along Quai de la Poste. Local activists had been erecting barricades in front of the Hotel de Finance. All windows of the Hotel had been previously damaged the day before. This gave the police an opportunity to close off the Usine. They blocked the access roads, but there were always people sitting in front of the open space eating and drinking and socializing, and the situation was calm. And soon after the people's kitchen brought out the food (around 7:30), someone said that there were plainclothes police coming. They wore street clothes and masks: gas masks, bandannas over their heads, hoods over their heads, and some had helmets. They came in an orange van that said Police. There were canton police from Zurich and Geneva, but no German police. They were armed with collapsible (telescopic) steel batons (which are illegal for policemen to carry in Zurich). There were activists and people from the Usine in front of the Usine, trying to close the door to keep the police out. People made human chains outside the door. Police immediately started beating people with their batons, without warning. They came running in, screaming, and beat people immediately. Two people bled from their heads. Then this eyewitness was beaten on his arm and fell, and a woman fell on top of him. After a moment, she got up and ran away. This eyewitness followed her to the river. On the way there were riot police with "tonfa" batons, and they were hitting people who were running past them, but not very hard. This eyewitness was clubbed. He heard stun grenades, (a.k.a. percussion grenades or concussion grenades). There are photos of these grenades, which have to this activist's knowledge not been used before in Switzerland. Then more and more police came, in police trucks, army trucks, and police cars. They pushed the people further and further away from the Usine. This eyewitness saw some people being taken away from the Usine in police buses. At the side entrance of the Usine, inside the Usine, the police were smashing doors to break them open. There is film of this from several sources. This eyewitness was standing in front of the side door on Rue du Stand and a police man who was on the staircase smashed a window for no reason. The glass fell on the people who were standing outside. The policeman appears to have done it just for fun. Police led some people out of the Usine and take them away in police cars. The legal team and journalists were allowed to go close to the entrance to watch this. This eyewitness went around a corner until the police moved away. One strange thing was that one of the police officers who was leading the troops had a rainbow-colored badge that said "Pace." He was not very aggressive. When the police broke in, they offered no warrant. They did not open any dialogue with the people who were in and around the Usine. It was an ambush.  
     
   
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    Que llueva! 2003-06-01 23:05    
  Que llueva, que lueva, la vieja está en la cueva, los pajaritos cantan, la vieja se levanta ;)))  
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