What happened at the support demo

I was arrested at the noise demo yesterday and deported for a second time to holland this morning. Although the police were the expected bastards, the way the demo went was pretty stupid. Being in jail with 40 black block comrades (according to the police in yesterdays news)
it was pretty clear that they arrested a lot of people who weren't involved with any property destruction.

Yesterday evening about 30 people took part in a support demo for the prisoners made earlier that day. Not a lot I'm afraid. After about half an hour of slogan shouting and increasing police presence outside of the station/jail we (three dutch activists) were just slowly removing ourselves since it was futile to continue, with things obviously going to go out of hand if we staid without it being worth it. It was pretty stupid of a lot of the people present that they didn't see this and not retreating easily.
So the police started charging and people ran away very chaotically and did not look around themselves very well. After 50 meters both some of us and the police stopped running. One specific police woman was specifically after one girl in our group and took hold of her.
Unfortunately, all the chaotically running around activists failed to look around what was happening properly, and hardly anyone other then the other two of our group came to help. There was a discussion with police people, with us saying that we were already leaving so au revoir etc., when this one woman grabbed hold of the girl again actually from behind other policemen, and me, my other comrade and a Belgian activist where taken hold of when we tried to free the girl. The lawyer was arrested at about that moment as well. I don't think this would have happened so easily if other people would have paid more attention.
She was trown to the ground and beaten and dragged by her hair across the ground, my head was beaten in to the wall several times when I shouted to leave her alone and my friend had his shoulder badly twisted.

We ended up kind of trying to sleep on a very cold slab of dirty concrete that they call a cell. We were deported to holland at around ten, and an hour later we hitched back again after we'd done the same on wednesday evening after the CEFIC occupation.

In the cell there were four other dutch people, one of who's face was beaten up very badly. When totally randomly arrested in the afternoon around fourish, basically just sitting at the camp fire at tour et taxis, he was trown to the ground and police actually started jumping on his face.

Also there were four polish comrades who were the black and red marching band. Although they obviously had only marched and played music, the police said they incited the black block to violence so they were deported to poland, although they live in Germany.

arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)