Press Releases & Updates 1998

Four activists were remanded today in custody for between 5-32 days after breaking into the nuclear submarine bases at Faslane and Coulport. One French peace activist was fined £50.00 today for singing outside the gates of Coulport.

Angie Zelter, Jens Light and Anja Light, were arrested yesterday morning after cutting through Faslane’s high security fence. In order to remove them the MOD brought in heavy machinery to cut down their own fence. Angie and Jens are remanded until September 22. Anja has been released on bail. Jens and Anja are siblings and have come over from Australia to join the Trident Ploughshares campaign.

At the Coulport site in the early hours this morning Sylvia Boyes and Rachel Wenham were arrested inside the base. Both women have been refused bail and are being remanded for five days.

It is noteworthy that 3 Swedish activists who appeared in court yesterday were released on bail in spite of two previous alleged breaches of bail, underlining the inconsistencies of the court’s actions.

The activists are part of the Trident Ploughshares peace camp at Coulport. Before being arrested Sylvia said: ’I am going to continue my disarmament actions in order to uphold international law because a crime is being committed against humanity. If the government won’t disarm Trident it’s up to responsible citizens to uphold the law.’

Angie Zelter is one of the Ploughshares women who disabled the Hawk jet in Warton, Lancashire which was bound for Indonesia two years ago, and was acquitted with three other women by a Liverpool court.

Serge Levillayer, a retired schoolteacher from Cherbourg in France was today fined £50 for breaching the peace. He was singing at a morning vigil outside the gates of Coulport, continuing his tradition of holding a vigil every Friday outside a construction yard in Cherbourg where nuclear submarines are built.

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