Undercover police officers at the 12/12/ demonstration

During the protests against the climate summit in Copenhagen the police utilized several undercover police officers. Thus, undercover police officers mingled among the mass demonstration on Saturday 12/12/2009.
On Monday the 14/12/2009 mingled during the no-border action day undercover police personnel among the protesters and prevented by force, that the crowd dragged the big ballon further.
On Wednesday, the 16.12.2009 during the Reclaim Power action took place undercover police hunt for demonstrators of the green group and arrested people arbitrarily. Within the blue group of plainclothes policemen mingled with the crowd and disguised themselves as journalists or media activists. In a disguised as a journalist, a policeman streamed directly from a video signal into the volume control center. As a radio journalist and media activist disguised policeman was also in the midst of the crowd when the confrontation in front of the Bella Center held driveway. This undercover police officer called on the crowd to defend themselfs was attested by witnesses. When the demonstration was on the way home, there was a diversionary tactic by low level flight with a helicoper and two minutes after that a undercover police unit have an access and arrested a person from the crowd. This unit was the same who protected the big ballon.
The demonstration was several times filmed by a special monitoring car which used IR cameras and may be other techniques.

Photo: Ben Powless.

On Saturday, over 100,000 people marched in Copenhagen calling on world leaders to agree to a just climate policy. Leading the march was a delegation of indigenous leaders from communities on the front lines of climate change. Democracy Now!’s Anjali Kamat and Elizabeth Press speak to indigenous activists at the march and at the Danish National Museum.

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12 December 2009 will go into history as the day when people flooded the streets, demanding a strong and equitable climate agreement. From the Klima Forum, a group of 5,000 demonstrators participate in the “flood for climate justice”, an initiative from NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark). The flood ended in front of the parliament, where it joined a huge crowd of 100,000 people.

The demonstration was supported by 538 organizations from 67 countries. Trade unions, churches, anarchist groups, left parties and environmental, human rights and development NGO’s joined this event to defend that rich countries must take their responsibility for creating the climate crisis. A often heard slogan is “System change, not climate change”.