28-05-2012, 02:07 PM
Police remove Occupy activists from Kampa
ÄŒTK | 28 May 2012
Prague, May 27 (CTK) - Activists from the Occupy movement were forced by the police to scrap their improvised camp in the centre of Prague yesterday, police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova told CTK, adding that no incidents accompanied the police intervention.
The activists had been camping in the Klarov park near the monument to anti-Nazi resistance victims for more than three weeks in connection with their petition campaign.
The event was to end on May 14, but the organisers wanted to extend it until November.
The Prague 1 town hall, which owns the plot concerned, said the activists have misused the petition law.
"After consulting Prague 1 officials, the police scrapped the tent camp yesterday," Zoulova said.
She said only one tent has been left on the site in compliance with the petition law.
The camp was built by activists dissatisfied with the political situation in the Czech Republic. Following the world Occupy movement's example, they said they would be staying in the camp to discuss ways to create a more just society placing more emphasis on direct democracy.
The activists put up almost 20 tents and shelters on the lawn near the Klarov monument, a field kitchen and an information stand.
The town hall said the activists misused the petition law by fixing petition sheets on their tents, thus presenting the tents as official petition stands in which the law permits them to stay.
The activists say hundreds of people have signed their petition so far, but they would not show the petition sheets to journalists.
ÄŒTK | 28 May 2012
Prague, May 27 (CTK) - Activists from the Occupy movement were forced by the police to scrap their improvised camp in the centre of Prague yesterday, police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova told CTK, adding that no incidents accompanied the police intervention.
The activists had been camping in the Klarov park near the monument to anti-Nazi resistance victims for more than three weeks in connection with their petition campaign.
The event was to end on May 14, but the organisers wanted to extend it until November.
The Prague 1 town hall, which owns the plot concerned, said the activists have misused the petition law.
"After consulting Prague 1 officials, the police scrapped the tent camp yesterday," Zoulova said.
She said only one tent has been left on the site in compliance with the petition law.
The camp was built by activists dissatisfied with the political situation in the Czech Republic. Following the world Occupy movement's example, they said they would be staying in the camp to discuss ways to create a more just society placing more emphasis on direct democracy.
The activists put up almost 20 tents and shelters on the lawn near the Klarov monument, a field kitchen and an information stand.
The town hall said the activists misused the petition law by fixing petition sheets on their tents, thus presenting the tents as official petition stands in which the law permits them to stay.
The activists say hundreds of people have signed their petition so far, but they would not show the petition sheets to journalists.
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass