Press Releases & Updates 2003
11th August 2003
Faslane Security Breached Yet Again
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Early this morning two peace activists were picked up from the water by MOD marine patrol officers inside the high security area in Faslane naval base.
Marcus Armstrong (43), a peace and justice worker from Milton Keynes, and Peter Hammarstedt (18), a student from Sweden, swam across the Gare Loch, evading the constant patrols by security launches and inflatables and got inside the floating boom at the Trident submarine berths before being apprehended. They planned to reach a submarine and spray-paint the hull with peace slogans.
The successful intrusion is the latest in a series of security lapses at the WMD base which is home to the UK’s Trident nuclear weapon submarines. Last August two activists boarded and spray-painted a Trident submarine berthed there and were even able to ring the ship’s bell.
Marcus Armstrong said: "Last week at Faslane we recalled the horrors of Hiroshima, the total devastation, the living skin stripped from the bodies of young children, the long slow torture of radiation poisoning. It is such horrors that these submarines are for."
As we write activists have succeeded in blockading Faslane’s north gate. Four disabled protesters (three of them in wheelchairs) are locked-on to each other.
The actions are part of the Trident Ploughshares two-week disarmament camp at Coulport. So far there have been 30 arrests.
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