was only a matter of time before the Danish Public Prosecutor announced the indictment against Greenpeace activists slipped into the gala dinner of the heads of state during the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009. Juan Lopez de Uralde, Nora Christiansen, Christian Schmutz and Joris Thijssen were awaiting trial for the dramatic action which they denounced the hypocrisy and incompetence of world leaders at that summit in which both promised us in vain. They were asked to rise to the occasion with those mythical banner of "Politicians talk, leaders act," and instead are prosecuted as criminals. Heroes, not criminals, are these brave warriors of the rainbow.
Finally, the wait ended Tuesday, after more than a year of uncertainty. accuse the Danish Prosecutor Juan Lopez de Uralde and other Greenpeace activists for trespassing against Queen Margrethe II, by applying thereto an outdated legal concept known as "The Queen's Paragraph." in principle face a maximum penalty of one year in prison, although applying this aggravating, it is not used for 75 years, prosecutors might be able to order more years in prison for activists.
The disproportionate punishment and were activists in 2009, spending 21 days behind bars "preventively", there seems to be no longer satisfied the Government of Denmark, who wants, as explained Danish correspondent Martin Tonner to radiocarbon , "an exemplary sentence." To Tonner, the sentence is not so much for exposing the failure of the climate summit as "make clear security." Of course, the Danish security was in a poor position after they left go to "Greenpeace heads of state" without asking any type of accreditation. Same is that it was enough to dress well and arrive in a luxury car!
Joking aside, the announcement of the Danish Public Prosecutor has produced rapid and massive response from the English environmental movement to the attack being suffered by the former director of Greenpeace Spain and Equo figurehead of the project. The campaigns director of Greenpeace Spain, Mario RodrĂguez Vargas, published a stunning article which warned that " are mistaken who think that this kind of action, utterly disproportionate, will silence the activists Greenpeace . few hours later cyberaction put up a "to make clear to the Danish authorities are not willing to allow criminalize and prosecute to those fighting climate change." The agreement can be signed cyberaction clicking here.
Alejandro Sanchez, representing Equo, argued on Wednesday in a statement that is wholly disproportionate action by the Danish justice act committed against a group of activists whose only crime was to remind Governments were not doing their job. "Ambassador Danish Spain on Thursday received a letter coordinator for Ecologists in Action, Luis González Reyes, transmitting that "with shock and sadness we drift repression that comes from Denmark." For Ecologists in Action, "something rotten in Denmark ", and asked the ambassador that his country" is able to return to a proportionate relationship between actions and consequences. " Green Coordinator also his electoral coalition Ecolo, association and organization Confluence Young Greens have given their support Uralde.
Juantxo himself has said this morning in the program 'I give you my word' Wave Radio that "I am calm because I think we did what we had to do." Juantxo, has already said on many of occasions that he regretted what he did, explained that "we will defend and vindicate what we did. We did not go for fun, we went to take a message and I think that millions of people felt represented in that action. "
Among those millions of people these days are those that have sent hundreds of messages of support from social networking including many requests to start demonstrations outside the Embassy of Denmark in Madrid, I do not think it will take a long time. It has also created a facebook group on the initiative of a group of young supporters called EQUO 'Juantxo is innocent, who did not act against climate change NO' . The latest publication in the wall reads:
"The commitment and peaceful struggle for a better world.Where is criminalized?If that is a crime to build a very large jail because we are much @ sl @ s that are committing crimes. "
I am also committing crimes with this entry. Mood Juantxo, we're with you!
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