Settlers
evicted from Sandles
6th
February 2007
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Security Guards, employed by a Company called Shercurity (believed
to be the Company featured at http://www.shercurity.net/index.html
) acting on the instructions of RWE NPower, entered premises
called "Sandles" by force. They used excessive force to gain ingress
to the house. They smashed a plate glass patio door behind which
two people were sleeping. who were showered in shards of glass as a result
of this violent incursion.
Following their entry into the house and the detention of the
occupants inside, they turned their attention to a structure outside in
the garden, which was a scaffolding tower, with a container on top.
Inside the container was a young man who had been peacefully resisting
eviction by locking himself inside the container. The Security Guards
put the life of this young protestor at risk by shaking the box, and recklessly
smashing it with sledgehammers. They toppled a container used for
ballast off the platform which crashed through the roof of the garage
below.
The occupation of the premises by protesters campaigning against NPower
was entirely peaceful. Their removal, by contrast, was not.
It was violent, forcible and without due regard for safety.
The people carrying out the
eviction were wearing balaclava helmets and could not be identified.
They wore no identity badges, as they should, according to the Code
of Conduct for Security Officers. These thuggish individuals
now parade round the footpaths, with faces covered, filming anyone they
consider to be sympathetic to Save Radley Lakes Campaign.
One of the Settlers, Ant,
has set up a one man picket line opposite Sandles. Enduring abuse
from the Security Guards he has maintained a vigil since he eviction.
For further information
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admin@saveradleylakes.org.uk
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