German authorities have announced measures to ban demonstrators from disrupting a controversial trainload of reprocessed nuclear fuel due to travel by rail and road from France to Germany.
The shipment is expected to pass through Lueneburg in northern Germany on or around November 12 en route from the La Hague reprocessing centre in northwestern France to a storage facility at Gorleben in northern Germany.
But authorities in Lueneburg announced this evening that between November 5th and 20th, demonstrations along the railway from the town to Dannenberg, which lies not far from Gorleben, would be kept 50 meters away from the tracks.
Protests that have not been cleared by the police in the area will also be banned from November 3, prompting anti-nuclear militants to announce plans to take legal action to overturn the bans.
Demonstrators have called for thousands to turn out to block the road and rail routes to be taken by the nuclear waste.
AFP