G8 summit in Heiligendamm 2007

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33rd G8 summit
Official event logo
place GermanyGermany Heiligendamm
Beginning June 6, 2007
The End June 8, 2007
Participants from the G8 group
CanadaCanada Canada Stephen Harper
FranceFrance France Nicolas Sarkozy
GermanyGermany Germany Angela Merkel
ItalyItaly Italy Romano Prodi
JapanJapan Japan Shinzo Abe
RussiaRussia Russia Wladimir Putin
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Tony Blair
United StatesUnited States United States George W. Bush
Participants from the group of the O5
BrazilBrazil Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China Hu Jintao
IndiaIndia India Manmohan Singh
MexicoMexico Mexico Felipe Calderón
South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa Thabo Mbeki
Representatives of international organizations
European UnionEuropean Union European Union José Manuel Barroso
African UnionAfrican Union African Union Alpha Oumar Konare
Commonwealth of Independent States CIS Nursultan Nazarbayev
International Atomic Energy OrganizationInternational Atomic Energy Organization IAEA Mohamed El Baradei
UNESCOUNESCO UNESCO Kōichirō Matsuura
United NationsU.N. U.N. Ban Ki-moon
World health organizationWorld health organization WHO Margaret Chan
Other participating states
EgyptEgypt Egypt Muhammad Husni Mubarak
AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua
SenegalSenegal Senegal Abdoulaye Wade
GhanaGhana Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor
Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia Meles Zenawi
website www.g-8.de

The 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm was the 33rd summit of the heads of state and government of the Group of Eight . The meeting under the German presidency took place for the first time from June 6th to 8th, 2007 in the Grand Hotel Kempinski in the seaside resort of Heiligendamm, about 15 kilometers west of Rostock, and for the fifth time in Germany. It was under the motto “Growth and Responsibility”.

The G8 summit mobilized a broad protest movement that organized various demonstrations during the summit. The massive security precautions ( summit policing ) that were put in place because of the expected and announced protests and false reports by the police shaped the public debate in the run-up to and during the summit.

agenda

The participants of the G8 summit; from left to right: Shinzō Abe , Stephen Harper , Nicolas Sarkozy , Vladimir Putin , Angela Merkel , George W. Bush , Tony Blair , Romano Prodi and José Manuel Barroso
The G8 summit participants
Conference location Kurhaus and House Mecklenburg
Chancellor Merkel and President Bush

Thematic priorities were the shaping of globalization in the economic sector and the problems of the African continent. The special responsibility of the G8 for the world economy should be emphasized and in this sense the commitment of the G8 for the disadvantaged parts of the world population should be strengthened. The summit also held talks with the representatives of the major emerging countries Brazil , China , India , Mexico and South Africa ( O5 countries ) as well as with the African countries Nigeria , Egypt , South Africa, Algeria , Senegal and Ghana (chairmanship of the African Union ), as a representative of the NEPAD countries.

In detail, the German presidency put the following topics on the official agenda:

Declarations of intent and negotiation results

Help for Africa

The G8 countries launched a 45 billion euro program to fight AIDS , malaria and tuberculosis on the African continent . The US wants to cover half of the costs, while Germany will bear 4 billion euros in costs by 2015.

The chairman of the African Union , John Kufuor , criticized the fact that previous promises made at the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005 were only poorly implemented: “The G8 countries have made a number of promises - regarding increased development aid, for example. We, the African Union, will remind them that these promises have yet to be kept. "

Climate protection

It was a declared aim of the federal government, but also of other summit participants, to address efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to expand renewable energies at the summit. By 2020, the share of solar energy , wind power and biomass in the total energy consumption of the G8 countries should be increased significantly. According to media reports, the US urged not to include all concrete statements about climate protection goals in the summit's final declaration. Opposed to binding commitments regarding the reduction of CO 2 - emissions appeared on the early ASEM meeting in Hamburg also China and India .

The summit participants agreed to "seriously consider" reducing global CO 2 emissions by 50% by 2050. They recognized the United Nations as a platform for action for the climate process. The reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its demands were expressly accepted. At the UN climate conference in Bali in December 2007, the G8 environment ministers are to make preparations for a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol .

Emerging markets

It was decided to further institutionalize the summit discussions after the inclusion of Canada (1976) and Russia (1998). The group of the seven leading western industrialized countries and Russia wanted to expand their cooperation with the large emerging countries, but without the group of eight becoming a group of 13. The involvement is known as the Heiligendamm process. That is why the G8 should have regular, institutionalized rounds of talks with the major emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, with the primary focus on climate protection, development cooperation, protection of innovations and worldwide freedom of investment. On the last day of the summit, the heads of government of the G8 met with their counterparts from the most important emerging countries.

Financial markets

Due to opposition from the USA and Great Britain, no agreement could be reached on a voluntary code of conduct for hedge funds . Only Germany’s wish to have further consultations followed can be found in the final declaration. Financial market regulations were not decided upon during the negotiations.

Investment freedom

With the freedom to invest, Chancellor Merkel had put issues on the agenda in addition to the protection of intellectual property which, in her opinion, were of considerable importance for the German economy. The G8, for example, expressed concern about the rise in protectionism and warned of the risk that the gains made in liberalization in the 1990s would be restricted. Notwithstanding international agreements regulating freedom of movement, investors in many countries would be hindered.

Product and brand piracy

The demand for better protection of intellectual property played an important role at the meeting . The participants of the summit committed themselves to pursue protection against product and brand piracy more closely. Customs and law enforcement authorities are to be networked and an international, electronic customs information system is to be set up. Measures to curb the demand for counterfeit products in their home markets were also discussed.

other topics

In addition to the official conference program, various bilateral meetings were held at which topics that were not on the agenda were discussed. This included a joint US and Russia missile defense project. Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the deployment of anti-missile missiles in Azerbaijan . The Qəbələ radar station , which Russia leased until 2012, can be used for localization . US President Bush rated the proposal as an "interesting idea".

Costs and security measures

Barrier fence around the conference venue

For the event in Heiligendamm, the state government expected costs of 92 million euros, of which the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania should have paid 68 million euros. According to the Ostseezeitung , the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Interior are expecting additional costs of almost 30 million euros a week after the summit. To protect the summit, a twelve-kilometer-long and 2.50-meter-high fence with barbed wire, camera surveillance and motion detectors has been built around the conference venue since January 2007. The costs for this are expected to be EUR 12.5 million. In addition, the Bundeswehr erected further barriers in the area of ​​the Molli railway line .

According to a report by the television station NDR from November 2007, the national share of the costs of 70 million euros is to be reduced to around 45 million euros through contributions of 25 million euros from the European Social Fund .

The entire facility enclosed the so-called Prohibited Zone I, which only residents and suppliers had access to. From May 30th to June 8th, 2007, there was a ban on gatherings in a corridor 200 meters wide around the barrier fence . The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania police were responsible for protecting this area . In addition, the prohibition zone I was secured with a second security area, the so-called prohibition zone II. This included an area several kilometers in front of Prohibited Zone I. To secure the Baltic Sea around Heiligendamm, the surrounding sea area was completely closed. In addition to the police, the German navy should be used to enforce the exclusion zone and monitor the sea. The airspace was also partially closed: In the so-called " flight restriction area Heiligendamm", civil aviation was prohibited up to FL100 (about 3 km altitude) within 30 nautical miles (55 km), and another restricted area was set up in the vicinity of Parchim airport .

The Rostock-Laage Airport was closed during the summit for commercial flight operations. The flights were diverted to Neubrandenburg Airport. A meeting ban was also issued in the vicinity of Rostock Airport, here from June 2 to 8, 2007.

17,000 police officers were deployed to secure the summit, and 1,100 Bundeswehr soldiers were deployed to provide logistical support and to secure the sea and the airspace with military equipment such as tornado fighter planes. A special organizational unit was set up under the name “ Kavala ” to coordinate the police forces in connection with the summit .

For the time of the summit, Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble ordered the use of border controls at Germany's Schengen internal borders.

The Rostock Police Department had issued a large-scale ban on gathering around the conference venue for several kilometers around the barriers and in the off-shore restricted area in front of Heiligendamm and a restricted area around Rostock Airport. Organizations critical of globalization filed an " urgent procedure " against the ban at the Schwerin Administrative Court . Attac accused the authorities in this context of creating "Russian conditions". In the first instance, the judges restricted the ban to 200 meters in front of the barrier fence. The Greifswald Higher Administrative Court, however, overturned this judgment.

In addition, a ban on gathering had been lifted in Schwerin , where, among other things, the NPD had announced a demonstration.

The ban on gathering around Rostock-Laage Airport, ordered by the police, had been partially overridden by the Schwerin administrative court following a legal challenge. Two urgent motions to the Federal Constitutional Court for a demonstration at Rostock-Laage Airport and for a vigil at the Heiligendamm “fence” on June 5th were also rejected. On June 6, 2007, the Karlsruhe court rejected the urgent motion against the ban on the “star march” planned by critics of globalization for June 7th towards the conference venue, mainly because of the previous riots in Rostock and the associated security risks in Heiligendamm but criticized the extensive ban on gatherings beyond the 200-meter zone in front of the fence as constitutionally questionable.

After five years, the Greifswald Higher Administrative Court decided in the last instance in August 2012 that the ban on the star march against the summit was illegal.

reporting

Several thousand journalists were expected to attend the summit. They were housed in a press center built for 15.4 million euros in Kühlungsborn, six kilometers away . The journalists were supposed to be brought to the conference venue by Molli steam train , but blockades prevented this in one day. Alternatively, journalists were brought to Heiligendamm by sea.

Many journalists viewed the very strict security precautions that were also critical for them. A trip to the actual conference location is often associated with half a day of time due to the many controls.

A so-called pool of large German television stations was set up for the production of pictures of summit locations where only a few journalists are allowed. The leadership here was the NDR , in the production of world view , the world's television stations will be provided, along with were the German wave , the ZDF , Phoenix , n tv and N24 involved.

Critics of globalization had organized independent reporting projects. Most of them used the Internet as a distribution platform, including live ticker, Internet radio and a television project.

Laura Bush states in her memoir that several members of the American delegation (including George W. Bush) showed symptoms of intoxication at the summit. George W. Bush missed several meetings because of the illness. The secret service examined the area for poisons, but according to official sources they did not find anything. The chef in charge rejected this as absurd, and the BKA and the Chancellery also have no knowledge of this.

Alternative summits and demonstrations

Alternative summit

The three-day so-called alternative summit in Rostock was intended to be an alternative to the G8 meeting. It was made by an alliance of Attac , VENRO , Justice Now! , Via Campesina and other organizations. At the same time as the G8 summit, it offered panel discussions with personalities such as Jean Ziegler , Annelie Buntenbach , Walden Bello , John Holloway and Vandana Shiva as well as more than 100 thematic workshops on topics of global development.

Attac

Attac rejects the merger of the G8 states as undemocratic because, from their point of view, a policy is being pursued that only benefits the rich and powerful states. Attac is committed to creating “prosperity for all”, to enforcing “social human rights” worldwide, and calls for an “economic system based on solidarity that puts people and the environment at the center”. As part of the Move against G8 campaign sponsored by Attac, a cultural program with the participation of Wir sind Helden , Jan Delay , Chumbawamba and Kettcar took place. Rostock-Laage Airport was to be blocked on the day the delegations arrived, and the approaches to the summit on the following days.

Justice now!

Justice now! as an action alliance of 42 different non-governmental organizations from the fields of church, development, environment and workers (including Misereor , Bread for the World , Evangelical Development Service , IG Metall , INKOTA-netzwerk , ver.di , terre des hommes , Oxfam and BUND ) a just world trade policy. The G8 are not seen as a point of contact to whom demands should be directed, but as an illegitimate club of powerful states.

Church groups

Catholic aid institutions such as Caritas Internationalis and the Episcopal Aid Organization Misereor also used the summit as an opportunity to appeal to the summit participating states.

Catholic associations such as Pax Christi and the Bund der Deutschen Katholischen Jugend (BDKJ), as well as the education department of the mission center of the Franciscans took an active part in the alternative summit and the protests. 

Social forums

The World Social Forum as well as the continental and regional social forums offered counter-events to the summits of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Davos World Economic Forum and the annual world economic summits of the heads of government of the G8 countries. The forums were open meetings to allow civilians and groups to influence and discuss ideas directly. In terms of content, they were directed against neoliberalism and a world dominated by capital or any form of imperialism and campaigned for the establishment of a humane society. According to their own charter (Charter of Principles of the World Social Forum), people should think together, debate different views, formulate suggestions and freely exchange experiences.

The demo starts in front of the Rostock main station
Approaching police force

Opening demonstration in Rostock

The summit was accompanied by numerous protests, which culminated on Saturday June 2nd with a large international demonstration in downtown Rostock . The two demonstration marches organized by an alliance of organizations critical of globalization ( Attac , Interventionistische Linke and others) ended with an hour-long closing rally with concerts and speeches at the Rostock city ​​harbor . The estimates of the number of participants by the police and organizers varied between 25,000 and 80,000 participants, whereas other estimates assume around 50,000 participants. Immediately in sight of the peaceful final rally and in the period that followed, there were serious clashes and street battles between around 2,000 autonomous people from the so-called black block and 5,000 police officers. First, according to the police, a number of around 1,000 injured was announced. These numbers were revised downwards significantly in the following days.

During the demonstration from the main train station to the city harbor, the glass doors and windows of two savings bank branches had already been destroyed. After a hooded man was arrested on the fringes of the rally, stones were thrown at a police vehicle. While on the march to the final rally site, the police forcefully entered the demonstration. Demonstrators who were not involved in the stone throwing were also injured. Some of the demonstrators tried to repel the massive advance of the police through non-violent de-escalation, while others continued to throw stones at the security forces. The situation initially calmed down when the police withdrew after several attempts. There was then various damage to property in the vicinity of the city port and the situation escalated again after the police tried several times to storm the square and militants set fire to a car and various other materials within sight of the main stand and injured several police officers during the final rally were. The police then used water cannons to drive militants and peaceful demonstrators from a rear part of the rally area, thus enabling the fires to be extinguished. There were around 125 arrests in total. In a quick trial before a Rostock court, one of the participants was initially sentenced to ten months in prison without parole. Further judgments against violent criminals followed. The responsible public prosecutor's office had not yet decided whether to initiate criminal proceedings against police officers for deliberate or negligent bodily harm. After numerous media initially reported property damage to public facilities amounting to around one million euros, this figure was subsequently corrected to 50,000 euros.

A participant of a black block claimed to have recognized another member (accompanied by three others) of the black block as a masked police officer ( agent provocateur ). (see also Peter Wahl # criticism ).

Blocking actions around Heiligendamm

Confiscated Greenpeace boats

On the day the summit began, several thousand demonstrators managed to get close to the barricade fence and block all access routes , despite the demonstration ban, using five-finger tactics . After being pushed off the road by the police, the demonstrators moved cross-country in small groups to their targets and did not exactly quantified property damage by trampling down crops and releasing cattle. Property damage was also caused by police operations, such as the landing of five police helicopters in the fields and the construction of the safety fence without consulting the farmers concerned across the fields. During the subsequent blockades, there were only a few minor clashes, and at least one agent provocateur is said to have incited the demonstrators. A supposed instigator of the police wanted to be photographed by demonstrators during the blockade actions in Bad Doberan on June 6th. Members of the legal team escorted the accused out of an angry group of demonstrators to the security forces. After initially denying any use of plainclothes officers, the police later admitted that the man who was excluded from the demonstration was a plainclothes officer. The police deny that the said person incited crimes; on the other hand there is the public accusation of a demonstration participant.

All reports that individual people from the peaceful mass blockades would arm themselves with various objects, such as billiard balls or fruits filled with razor blades, in order to attack the police, turned out to be untrue. The alliance Block G8 , which organized the mass blockades, made it clear in advance that the attempt should be completely non-violent, which can also be confirmed in retrospect. Violent attempts to blockade, mostly against objects, only took place in the vicinity of decentralized, autonomous small groups.

Greenpeace action

25 activists from the environmental organization Greenpeace approached the exclusion zone in 11 rubber dinghies, of which three rubber dinghies temporarily entered the restricted area. All boats were intercepted by the water police, the last 2 at Kühlungsborn. A rubber dinghy was rammed by the police, whereby 4 activists went overboard, another was literally run over, although it was outside the exclusion zone at the time. According to Greenpeace, three people were injured and had to be taken to hospital. Two activists were arrested on land near the Kühlungsborn pier.

Further protests

In the days after the large demonstration, action days on various topics took place. On the day before the beginning of the summit and during the summit, decentralized sit-ins took place alongside other actions , which were linked to tactical frivolity .

A day of action on global agriculture took place on June 3rd. This also included a demonstration in front of the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Rostock . Research is being carried out there on green genetic engineering . The demonstration then moved to the New Market for the final rally. Another demonstration later moved from Rostock to Groß Lüsewitz, where release tests are being carried out.

On June 4th, several demonstrations against migration policy took place in the Rostock district of Lichtenhagen and at Rostock-Laage Airport . There were also isolated riots after a demonstration with around 10,000 to 15,000 participants was prematurely terminated by the organizers. The police had previously cordoned off the planned route through the city center, as the event was only registered for 2,000 participants.

On June 7th there was a concert with the motto “ Your voice against poverty ” , at which many well-known musicians played.

Over 1,000 demonstrators were briefly arrested during the summit, according to police. They were then taken to so-called “prisoner collection points” (GeSa). These were temporary arrangements, some of the cells were barred areas of 20 to 30 m² in a warehouse. Since, among other things, 24-hour video surveillance was installed in some cases and, according to demonstrators, the cells were overcrowded and permanently lit, protests were made against this treatment. Lawyers for arrested demonstrators brought charges against the responsible judges for deprivation of liberty and perversion of justice . Media representatives were not granted access to the facilities.

Two demonstrators, who were held in police custody for five days, sued this measure in German courts, including the Federal Constitutional Court, without success. It was not until the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on December 1, 2011 that the detention was recognized as a violation of human rights and Germany was sentenced to compensation.

Legal emergency service

Before and during the protests, more than 100 international lawyers, together with the investigative committees, organized an emergency legal service to defend the rights of the protest movement. Members of the Republican Lawyers Association were part of this “legal team” . Her work was later awarded prizes by the Criminal Law Working Group of the German Bar Association pro reo and the International League for Human Rights . In December 2007, the emergency service presented its work and its legal consequences from the repression against the protest movement in the documentation "Feindbild Demonstrant".

Investigations in advance of the protest movement

According to their spokesman, the security authorities expected massive, possibly violent, protests and tried to obtain information about planned violent actions in advance with large-scale searches ("Operation water hammer").

Searches ahead of the summit

The Rote Flora also searched

On May 9, 2007 around 900 police officers searched 42 properties in six federal states (Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony), including private apartments and convergence centers, on the basis of judicial orders on behalf of the Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms . It was investigated against militant opponents of the G8 summit who may be planning acts of violence. The search warrants were issued in the context of an investigation on suspicion of the formation of terrorist organizations (Section 129a of the  Criminal Code ). The Federal Prosecutor's Office justified the deployment with the suspicion of having “founded a terrorist organization” against people who were “militant left-wing extremist circles”. There were no preliminary arrests or arrest warrants, said the Federal Prosecutor's Office spokesman Frank Wallenta. In the weeks leading up to the summit, there were no arrests based on the results of the investigation.

Instructions for the construction of explosive devices and incendiary devices are said to have been found on a farm in Brandenburg during the raids. In Hamburg, "forged and falsified personal documents" were confiscated, but these documents turned out to be a forged student ID . Furthermore, alarm clocks, wires, clocks and larger fireworks were discovered during the raid.

In January 2008, the Federal Court of Justice ruled that the raids were illegal and that the Federal Prosecutor's Office was not responsible. There are "lasting doubts" that the accused formed a terrorist group. There is also no particular significance of the case. Both are a prerequisite for the investigation by the federal prosecutor's office.  

From the point of view of the critics, the protests were restricted with these illegal raids, through the largest police operation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, with military action, the construction of a fence over 12 kilometers long and manipulation of the media, and fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly were violated .

police

Konrad Freiberg , chairman of the police union (GdP), warned of the increasing influence of former RAF terrorists on today's left scene. Appearances by Inge Viett and Ralf Reinders at May Day rallies are signs of this. Literally he said: "We will still see left-wing extremists carrying out arson attacks and referring to the RAF."

Left and globalization-critical scene

The house project Bethanien gave a press conference shortly after the incidents. The Attac movement , which is critical of globalization , officially distanced itself from violent protests.

On the evening of the same day there were several spontaneous demonstrations, among others in Amsterdam , Berlin , Bochum , Bremen , Cottbus , Duisburg , Gießen , Göttingen , Hamburg , Hanover , Jena , Cologne , Leipzig , Leverkusen , Marburg , Rostock , Siegen , Mannheim and Wolfsburg . While the demonstration in Berlin was peaceful with 5,000 participants, riots subsequently broke out in Hamburg, in which the police took action against demonstrators who, among other things, set off fireworks.

After initial outrage, positive findings were also drawn from the police actions in left circles, as there were numerous protests against the raids. The former Minister Heiner Geissler from the CDU also joined Attac in the following days. In the press there was often talk of a "moving closer together", especially in Berlin, of the fragmented left and globalization-critical scene. The raids and the great media coverage would have given the mobilization a huge boost four weeks before the summit.

Further investigations and criminal proceedings

In the run-up to the summit, following a judicial decision by the Hamburg police on behalf of the Federal Prosecutor's Office, mail from several districts was checked over two days before delivery in a mail distribution center. Officials are also said to have been present when mailboxes were emptied, removing suspicious letters from the usual logistics route before they were transported to the mail center. Only after an inspection were the letters returned to Deutsche Post for transport. A suspicious shipment was opened by the police. Twelve officers were posted to a Deutsche Post AG mail center for several days to search the mail.

In addition, the Hamburg State Criminal Police Office tried to persuade Internet cafés to install video surveillance so that they could then evaluate the recordings. In addition, markets of the Schlecker drugstore chain were targeted by state security, as utensils from these markets were found at locations where there were arson attacks on automobiles.

During and after the summit there were several rushed proceedings by the authorities. A German and a Spaniard were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment without parole for attempted grievous bodily harm and a serious breach of the peace. One man from Poland received six months probation, another Spaniard and another German were sentenced to ten months in prison.

Controversy over the use of the German armed forces

To support the massive police operation, the Federal Armed Forces were requested to monitor the airspace and to secure the sea area around the conference hotel as part of the administrative assistance. In addition, the Bundeswehr provided logistical and medical assistance.

Since the Bundeswehr was also used to monitor the demonstrators, a controversy arose over the legality of this operation. On June 5, the camp in Reddelich , where thousands of opponents of the summit camped, was overflown by Tornado- type reconnaissance aircraft of the German armed forces, taking aerial photos. This was done "[...] as part of the technical administrative assistance at the request of the G8 summit organization staff of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania [...]".

On June 13, 2007, Rainer Arnold saw in his capacity as defense policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in opposition to parts of the SPD and the Greens, who considered the use of tornado reconnaissance aircraft to spy out opponents of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in May and June Criticized a breach of the constitution, only a classic case of administrative assistance according to Article 35 of the Basic Law : "It is crucial that the Bundeswehr does not take on any police-sovereign tasks, such as cordoning off, checking people or searching houses."

The defense policy spokesman for the Greens Winfried Nachtwei sees the process as a “distortion of the constitution”. The use stretched the limits of technical administrative assistance. The Defense Committee and the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag dealt with the operation following the summit. A constitutional action brought against the deployment by the parliamentary group of the Greens was dismissed by the BVerfG by decision of May 4, 2010 (for largely formal reasons). The Federal Administrative Court made 2017 a constructive interference in the freedom of assembly fixed because "the overflight of fighter aircraft over the camp at an altitude of only 114 m from the point of view of an average person concerned in view of the extreme noise development, the terrifying sight and the surprise effect in the context of Preparation of the demonstrations against the G8 summit [had] an intimidating effect . "

Satellite reconnaissance

Before and during the G8 summit, DLR took satellite images of checkpoints and conference locations in Heiligendamm. The mission was part of research to capture major events with the help of satellite images. The activities of the emergency services and demonstrators can be seen on the satellite images. The THW operations management received the satellite image maps in real time. For this purpose, DLR used satellite communication, which was provided by the ESA research program ARTES 3 , in order to gain further experience in this area. The knowledge gained through the research work should primarily be incorporated into the EU project LIMES .

literature

Movie

Web links

 Wikinews: Portal: G8  - in the news
Commons : G8 summit in Heiligendamm 2007  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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