2nd day of action:
Spontanous Demonstration inside Frankfurt Airport-Terminal
– Pictures
Around 50 people participated in a “spontanous demonstration” for freedom
of movement inside the terminal of frankfurt airport on 2nd of april.
Police and securities have been surprised and could not stop a noisy
protest-march with speeches and banners through the airport-building. This
action was not announced anywhere before, because the airport-company and
police try to prevent any kind of announced demonstration inside the
airport-terminals (in the past with hundreds of police-men to block and
control all entrances!).
A few more background-informations:
Frankfurt-airport is the most important deportation airport in Germany.
More than 10.000 deportations yearly (more than 30 every day!) are
organised by border police on this airport.
And on the area is (since 1993) a closed internment-camp
(Internierungslager) for refugees and migrants, who arrived here in
Frankfurt without valid papers and who are suspected to have no “founded”
asylum reasons. The arrested people should be deported back after a quick
asylum-procedure, never having the chance to leave this airport-area.
Since 12 years some initiatives are active to fight against deportations
and internment-lager at this airport, with a peak in 2001, when we
organised a big nobordercamp near frankfurt with more than 1000
participants and with a final demonstration of 3000 people.
Beside many demonstrations and symbolic actions in the last years we are
many times present at the airport (sometimes with only a few people) to
try to prevent particular deportations of singular migrants.
A few weeks ago we could succeed to stop the deportation of an iranian
woman in the last minute. The pilot refused to transport the woman after a
lot of protests, from outside but also from inside the airport. 150 people
joined the spontanous protest in the airport, but 60 persons have been
arrested later on by police for a whole night because of “a not allowed
protest in a private space”.
So the 2nd of april “spontanous demonstration” referred to these
situations and experiences, and for sure we will continue with our
protests – particularly inside the airport-terminal – as long as
deportations and internment take place from here.
