Lappersfort Eviction Notice Confirmed By Judge

On Decem­ber 31st 09, the Brugge court gave a ver­dict con­cern­ing the 3 pre­vi­ous occu­piers who signed a con­tract with the own­er, GDF Suez, and also con­cern­ing the evic­tion notice for the present occu­piers of the Lap­pers­fort.

Accord­ing to the judge, Suez can not hold the 3 pre­vi­ous occu­piers respon­si­ble for the new occu­pa­tion, and there­fore their claim against them has been dis­missed.
How­ev­er, the judge has declared that the evic­tion notice issued in 2002, dur­ing the first occu­pa­tion of the Lap­pers­fort, is still valid and may be used to evict the cur­rent occu­piers. This, despite the fact that the first evic­tion notice was issued to 13 peo­ple iden­ti­fied by the court, and who were threat­ened after the first evic­tion with a €50,000 fine if they re-entered the for­est or were involved in any oth­er actions against Fab­ri­com / Suez. None of these 13 peo­ple have any­thing to do with the cur­rent occu­pa­tion and there­fore an evic­tion notice based on a ver­dict passed against them should not be able to be used against us, the present occu­piers. Suez had, before this tri­al, appar­ent­ly already approached a bailiff with the evic­tion notice from 2002, but the bailiff refused to enforce it, as it was doubt­ful whether they could still legal­ly use it. The judge’s ver­dict on the 31st has giv­en them bla­tant right to enforce this notice, claim­ing that the right to pri­vate prop­er­ty is one of the pil­lars of our soci­ety and there­fore must be upheld by the law enforcers blablabla.
As it stands, Suez now have a notice allow­ing them to evict the Lap­pers­fort, which they will have to present to a bailiff who will then have to acti­vate the remote-con­trol pig cir­cus. We are on evic­tion alert every day, and are well pre­pared, after 16 months of occu­pa­tion. We’re not sure how long the process will take from here, and we now need more humans inside the for­est, aswell as oth­ers sup­port­ing from the out­side. If Suez wants to destroy the Lap­pers­fort, now is the time to come togeth­er to make their job as dif­fi­cult as pos­si­ble.

Love respect and sol­i­dar­i­ty to our friends in Tit­nore Woods (eng­land), Des­dels­boscs (spain), Main­shill (scot­land), Tas­ma­nia (aus­tralia), also under evic­tion threat; to the peo­ple of the Brazil­ian Ama­zon fight­ing against the GDF Suez Jirau dam project, and to all oth­er humans defend­ing wilder­ness and nature across the plan­et.…

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