3 Lappersfort occupiers released, with deportation notices

Yes­ter­day (fri­day 24th april) the 3 Lap­pers­fort occu­piers arrest­ed on tues­day night were released (orig­i­nal arti­cle about arrest http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22493). Upon sign­ing out of the Brugge prison they were all issued with depor­ta­tion notices, order­ing them to leave the “King­dom of Bel­gium” by mid­night on the 29.04.2009. One of them signed the paper after being threat­ened with being sent back into the cell if refus­ing. The oth­er two refused to sign the paper and were still released, but as yet we’re not sure if the depor­ta­tion notice has any legal grounds or not. Obvi­ous­ly the pigs are using their socalled “posi­tion of author­i­ty” to intim­i­date the occu­piers and those sup­port­ing them, and this attempt­ed depor­ta­tion is sim­ply an extreme and over-the-top expres­sion of their desire to be rid of us before the issues of the lap­pers­fort, of “zonevreemde” forests and police repres­sion get too big for them to han­dle. The notice itself seems extrem­ly dodgy, it has only been signed by the prison direc­tor, refers from a law from 1980, and one is issued with­out the offi­cial name of the per­son to be deport­ed. But these days here in Brugge noth­ing is sur­pris­ing any­more, and the police may take this “chance” to raid the camp to find the “ille­gal” peo­ple there. The facist pig-pro­tec­tors of the “Bel­gian Reich” are again flex­ing their lit­tle mus­cles, and this one case is anoth­er exam­ple of the facism of “fortress Europe” and its pro­tec­tors, and the vio­lent repres­sion prac­tised against those who show any form of resis­tance. Resort­ing to such mea­sures only shows us that the police here feel threat­ened by our pres­ence in the for­est.
Mean­while the pigs still have the ID’s and belong­ings of many peo­ple, and we’re try­ing to find out whether the raid at a local friends house on wen­des­day after­noon was legal or not, and whether or not we have a legal case against the Brugge police. (For orig­i­nal arti­cle about raid http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22512).
Fol­low­ing the release of the 3 we now know more about their arrest on tues­day. At least 6–10 pig­gies had been wait­ing in the bush­es, some dressed in cam­ou­flage and black, some in uni­form, some with bal­a­clavas and at least one dog. They came from behind the bush­es and trees from all direc­tions in a pathet­ic hol­ly­wood-style ambush, vio­lent­ly forc­ing 3 peo­ple to the ground, twist­ing their arms and using pres­sure-points. Fin­ger­prints and pho­tos were tak­en, and after the raid the pigs man­aged to pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fy one of the 3. The cop­pers here are using their tac­tics of kid­nap­ping, ambush, vio­lence and lies to crush our camp, our cam­paign, and to make oth­ers afraid of com­ing to vis­it, show sup­port or move in. Spring is hap­pen­ing, and we are try­ing to get ready for a busy sum­mer of cam­paign­ing and actions, despite con­stant police harass­ment. Just last night, while we cel­e­brat­ed the release of our friends, 3 peo­ple were forced to run from police after return­ing to the camp from col­lect­ing bread from a local bak­ery sup­port­ing the occu­piers. The pig­gies, obvi­ous­ly with noth­ing bet­ter to do, wait­ed long in to the night, keep­ing a close eye on the bag of bread dumped in the bush­es by the 3 forced to flee. Upon return­ing to get it lat­er, the sil­ly bug­gers were still wait­ing, but the peo­ple man­aged to get away. Our crim­i­nal bread is now back on site and being enjoyed by all.…
The camp, in this time of police sur­veil­lance and harass­ment and all the rest of it, require a few things which could be very helpful.…Lappersfort wish­list: peo­ple with legal knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence, espe­cial­ly immi­gra­tion law
com­put­er freak to help updat­ing and renew­ing old and neglect­ed web­site
most of all we need more peo­ple in the for­est, to come by and stay as long as they want, to move in and to take part in the camp itself (all peo­ple com­ing over should be aware how­ev­er of strong police pres­ence around the for­est)
please phone for anything.……(++32 741/65.85.44)