Eviction of the Swamp starts today. Come to support
Waar: Swamp, Gelderlantlaan 4, Utrecht, Netherlands (GPS lat: 52.056153 lon: 5.105037)
Wanneer: 02/11/2018 - 09:57
Support the Swamp! The eviction of the Swamp has started.
It won't be that easy. The Swamp will resist.
Lock ons and a monopot tower await the cops. Come to the swamp and support!
Timeline:
07.00h: workers from Borghese open the fence that separates the swamp from the neighbors field.
9.30h: Police vans arrive to the field.
Eight cops entered the terrain and a bailiff started to walk around asking people to leave.
10.00h: the first arrest police van arrived.
10.20h: five people have been found inside of the Swamp, the bailiff hopes there's no one else in places hard to access or hiding.
10.30h: "if people are hidding is their own risk if we run over them with a bulldozer" said the bailiff. Trees start to be cut. Bratra has been called and its on its way. So far five people have been found.
11.15h: trees keep on being cut very close by to older and bigger treescreen which need a permit to be cut. The Swamp support team calls the province to inform about thethe situaction and put a complaint.
11.54h: the diggers keep on cutting trees at the field. Houses are being destroyed too. Smoke bombs stopped them for a moment but they keep on advancing.
12.00h: Bratra has arrived and are walking into the Swamp.
More info, videos and will come soon.
10.30: "if people are hidding is their own risk if we run over them with a bulldozer" said the bailiff. Trees start to be cut.
Bratra has been called and its on its way. So far five people have been found.
11.15: trees keep on being cut very close by to older and bigger treescreen which need a permit to be cut.
The Swamp support team calls the province to inform about thethe situaction and put a complaint.
11.30h:
11.54h: the diggers keep on cutting trees at the field. Houses are being destroyed too. Smoke bombs stopped them for a moment but they keep on advancing.
12.00h: Bratra has arrived and are walking into the Swamp.
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12.30h:seven people have been found inside.
4 people have been found in a 10min highave monopot tower. All four are in lock ons. The person on the top is locked to the neck.
1 person at a tree house in a lock on.
1 person in a caravan in a lock on.
1 person on the roof of a house in a lock on.
13.20h: the bratra is starting to evict the tree house. They had trouble with their own ladder.
13.35h: they are cutting the bottom of the 10min high monopot tower where four people are locked. Everyone locked to the structure has been put in danger.