These pictures were taken on the day of 30/08/04
They take a time to down load, but are well worth the wait
See if you can spot the Maire, this all went on for about 4hrs, if you can't click here and see him
talking to his workers while they build the Antenna
The picture above and below showing the police just arriving on site to protect
the Orange workers
so they can start the site work for a 20 meter antenna
The pictures above showing the police taking up their positions
The picture above showing a twelve year old child being pushed to the ground,
and then the black
policeman using excessive force and pushing her head into the field whilst the picture
below shows
the policeman running to put his knee into her back, by which time the police had cleared
us from
the road and we had lost our position for taking pictures
Picture above and below clearly showing the after effect of police brutality
The picture above shows us asking these police to call for an ambulance as a young
girl had been
flattened by police in the field, she was starting to fit and finding it very hard to
breath
It looked as if they were going to help as a policeman came running, but they
told us to call
ourselves knowing we were not fluent in french
These two pictures above showing Georges Marquie (of 67 years) a local villager
who is against
the antenna site, being beaten and kicked to the floor by the police
Picture above showing the stand off with the police after they kicked him to the floor
This picture above showing him complaining to the police, and being told they saw nothing
The picture above showing the press and the police all being very nice.
But if you look at the police near the car you can see real hate in their eyes.
We started with no support from the local villagers but now we are gaining more support every day
The picture above showing the man from Orange reporting back to the office that
everything went fine
No Problems Sir.
I guess you did not spot the Maire, he stayed in his office and was too scared
to come out and see his
villagers struggle to save their health and the health of the village, you can catch him
on Page just Click speaking
to his worker mates to see if every thing is going ok on the the site