Scotland on Sunday published this Sunday the results of an undercover investigation into the protests planned for the 31st G8 summit.
The investigation of the "anarchists and dissenters" of the movement
lasted six months and was carried out by Scott McCulloch, on behalf of
the Scottish newspaper's broadsheet Sunday edition.
McCulloch's report details the training camps of the protest groups
that were held this weekend in preparation for the summit next month.
Attendees were expected to learn how to cut or climb over fences and
how to avoid injury from attacks by guard dogs. Factories making tubes
that protesters use to lock themselves to other protesters are also
being set up according to the report on the investigation. Massive road
blocks are planned in an attempt to disrupt the Summit.
The protests are expected to be coordinated from a central point at the Ecovillage
in Forthbank, close to the city of Stirling in central Scotland. An
area of land owned by the Council was approved as the location for the
ecovillage by Stirling Council on Friday 24 June. The site is intended
to be a solar powered campsite for an allegiance of groups making up a
possible total of 5000 people. A license to hold the event at Forthbank
was sought by Convergence 2005 after two other proposed sites had
already been disallowed by the Council.
Despite last minute objections raised by Central Scotland Police,
the Council decided that Forthbank would be the least disruptive
location for the protesters to gather, and noted that security measures
had been taken. Security measures are already visible at other camps,
including a steel barrier around the campsite at Craigmillar,
Edinburgh. More serious security measures, designed to protect the
attendees of the Summit, will involve warships and army helicopters,
according to an editorial by Murdo MacLeod in the Scotland On Sunday
today. The paper also reports that Mike Smith, from Kings College
London, says that security fences and police snipers are expected to be
surrounding the area of the Summit.
The Summit itself is taking place in Gleneagles, which is 20 miles
away from the main campsite in Forthbank. The ecovillage is expected to
open at the start of July.
Source: Wikinews
