12.12.16 – policeviolence at the port

Yesterday news:

One of the NBK- Crew want to go to the ferry. Just to say goodbye to a friend.

At the gate one policemen without uniform asked her for her passport. She gives him her ID-Card. But he told her to leave this place.

She asked why. She just want to go to the ferry. But he say again, She have to leave.

She said:” I’m from Germany, so let me going to the ferry, or give me a reason, why i can not go inside the port”

After this he pushed her beside and punched her. She screamed for help. But there was two more civil policemen coming and they punched her too. Then she was laying on the ground and they still kicked her. She try to defend herself. In the affect she say “Fuck you” to them. They answered “Fuck you Germany!” While this she lost one of her shoe. Then one of the police guys grabbed her hair and pulled her up. The other one took her shoe and hit her with this. Then they pushed her at the wall and shout to open her legs wide. They put handcuffs on her and told her to come. She tried to stay there and told them, She don’t go without purse and bag (She lost it while they threat her like this). One of the guys take it. This police men, who bring her to the car had one hand on her handcuffs and with the other hand he pushed her head violently down. Then he throw her in the police car and locked the door. After one minute the other guy come back and say “Come out of the car. “ She asked him for his ID-Card. He punched her again. Then he freed her from the handcuffs and say, she have to leave the port.

After sharing this story, some off us wanted to show solidarity and presents. the ferry left and also the police. there was only one military boat with people on and outside the boat. after simply asking who was in charge for the security check they told us to leave this military zone. what we did.
we were on the way OUT when a black unmarked car stopped and four cops went out of the car. one of them loaded an automatic gun while getting out.
they told us to stand against a wall. because they were in a unmarked car we asked them to show us an id card from the police. we were asking for an international right while they had a gun and sticks in their hands.
of course they resisted to show us any id card and started to push us around.
they tried to arrest one of our friend in a violent way, he took his chance and run away. followed by two cops and a friend. they put him on the ground and kicked him. his friend was put down by a guy who just stopped his car without wearing any uniform and saying who he is.
the police left with our friend. we couldn’t get any aces to the police station or we could not talk to him.

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Within 24 hours our friend had his trail this morning. Without having a chance of collecting evidences.
We got the information one hour before the trail, we tried to get the people together who witness the action last night.
Four of us made it to the court, but only one of us could speak as a witness. The judge didn’t want have a long trial.
One cop, one witness and the accused himself could speak.

We have no idea what the cop was saying, for the accused and the witness it was very difficult to give a statement. The translator cant speak good English and the judge interrupted the witness all the time. It was not possible to tell the full story.
After a trial of half an hour the sentence was 15 month (!!!!) on probation. (Insulting and pushing the police and resisting the arrest.)

In the end it was word against word…even tough 8-10 people could tell the truth. This is a fucking joke!