Battle of Sherwood commences as Under-sheriff risks protestors lives

Eviction Aruga!! Sherwood eviction

Evic­tion under­way at Sher­wood Green Protest site, Not­ting­hamshire — Under-Sher­iff risks tun­nellers’ lives, trees pro­tes­tors have been cleared, tree-felling under­way.

After over 14 months spent pro­tect­ing a vil­lage green from ille­gal destruc­tion. Pro­test­ers in Sher­wood for­est are fac­ing the tough­est day — Police turned up with­out warn­ing at 8 this morn­ing and start­ed to evict them.

The trees were evict­ed quite fast , but there is a tun­nel net­work that will take far longer. The tun­nels are well stocked and extreme­ly well defend­ed.

No notice was giv­en that the evic­tions were to take place and the Under-Sher­iff of Not­ting­ham (whose ulti­mate­ly in charge of evic­tions in the area) told the pro­test­ers only last week, that there would not be an evic­tion while legal cas­es were still out­stand­ing.

Pro­test­ers and local peo­ple are cur­rent­ly try­ing to pre­vent the police from get­ting near the tun­nels to stop any fur­ther destruc­tion of the vil­lage green.

As this release goes out, the beech tree which is at least a cou­ple of hun­dred years old is fac­ing the axe.

Sev­er­al peo­ple are known to be in tun­nels, local res­i­dents watch in anger, and the Not­ting­hamshire Police who pre­vi­ous­ly assured them that no tree-felling would take place until the tun­nels had been evict­ed, have now allowed felling to com­mence  of very large mature trees, direct­ly above the sit­ing of the tun­nels which could cause a fatal tun­nel col­lapse.

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