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Press Releases & Updates 2001
7th April 2001
16 Arrests at Faslane as Anti-Trident Campaign Continues
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Sixteen activists were arrested today at Faslane naval base, home to the
UK’s nuclear weapon submarines, as around 150 campaigners, among them Tommy
Sheridan MSP, gathered at the base to restate the moral and legal case
against Trident and to continue the campaign of direct action.
The event began with a number of short speeches. Angie Zelter (45), from
Cromer in Norfolk and one of the Trident Three, expressed the disgust that
people were feeling at the abject failure of the Scottish High court to be
independent from the state and admit that Trident is an illegal weapon of
mass destruction. Tommy Sheridan gave his strong support for the activists
who had put the Trident question on the Scottish Parliament agenda last
Thursday and pointed out that a majority people in Scotland were behind the
direct action campaign.
Meanwhile activists were cutting through the perimeter fence of the base
and some succeeded in getting inside, setting of the "bandit" alarm. At the
north gate of the base, in front of the crowd and the police, Angie Zelter
went to the fence and began to cut it with bolt-cutters. It took the police
some time to arrest her and the police van she was put in was held up for
an hour as campaigners crowded in front of it.
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: "We were delighted that so many
people came down to Faslane at short notice. People know the judges had a
chance to do the right thing and blew it. Its up to all of us now to step
up the campaign."
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