The military considers the things valued at hundreds of thousands crowns that do not belong to it found objects, military police spokesman Jan Cermak told. However, if Greenpeace proves it is its members', it will be ready to return the things to them, Cermak said. On Monday, the military decided to evict the persons who had camped on the spot height 718 since April 28 as they did not react to repeated calls to leave the area. Five persons were Czech opposition head wants to ask Rice not to sign radar treaty ...
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visa issues ... detained and brought to a police station. A week ago, the protesters declared Peaceland, a "state" of their own, at the spot height 718 where the USA wants to install a radar base, part of its missile defence shield. Weapons were banned in Peaceland, and if military police appeared there, the activists would refuse to produce their ID cards, they said a few days ago. The two sides have been unable to agree on the formula of whether the things were confiscated or found. "None of the five persons that illegally stayed in the site in question announced during the police intervention that they have their own things there nor did they voice any wish to take them away," Cermak said. As a result, the military concluded the things were found and documented them. Tutter said this was preposterous. "There were the cases when the military police took away a borrowed camera worth 200,000 crowns from an activist, telling him it was seized within the operation," Tutter said. Both sides refer to video recordings from the action. Tutter said he was afraid the things could be lost. There were things worth hundreds of thousands crowns, Tutter said. "There was a borrowed professional camera, several notebooks, four to five sets of alpinist equipment, three solar panels, eight tents and further things," Tutter said. Cermak has denied this. Tutter said the activists would reclaim their things. If any of them is lost or damaged, they will file a lawsuit, he added. The planned radar base, along with a base for interceptor missiles in Poland, would be part of the U.S. missile defence shield that is to protect the United States and a large part of Europe against missiles that "rogue" states like Iran might launch. ($1=15.730 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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