Posted on 11/07/2004 6:47:07 PM PST by tbeatty
Protester Against Radioactive Waste Shipment Killed After Being Hit by Train, Police Official Says
By Marie-France Bezzina Associated Press Writer Published: Nov 7, 2004
NANCY, France (AP) - A French anti-nuclear protester was killed Sunday in eastern France when his leg was severed by a train carrying radioactive waste to Germany, a police official said. The incident took place further down the rails from where two other anti-nuclear protesters had earlier chained themselves to the tracks near the town of Nancy, briefly delaying the train, rail officials said.
Paramedics quickly cared for the protester after the incident near the town of Avricourt, but his leg was severed and he died en route to a nearby hospital, the police official said on condition of anonymity. The official said at least one other protester had been injured.
Spokesmen for local police and rescue workers were not immediately available for comment.
About 12 miles up the rails in the town of Laneuveville-devant-Nancy, police intervened to cut the chains that two protesters from activist group Sortir du Nucleaire (Out of Nuclear) had used to lock themselves to the tracks, officials from railway authority SNCF said.
The train was delayed for about two hours, before continuing its route from a reprocessing plant in western France to a rail terminal in the German town of Danneberg. It was carrying 12 containers of waste destined for a storage site in nearby Gorleben.
At least 4,500 people demonstrated Saturday at the radioactive waste way station in Gorleben, part of regular protests over concerns that the nuclear material is unsafe.
Spent fuel from Germany's nuclear power plants is sent to France and Britain for reprocessing under contracts that oblige Germany to take back the waste.
Some previous shipments of radioactive waste to Gorleben have drawn thousands of protesters and led to clashes with police.
The demonstrations have faded, however, as the German government last year embarked on a plan to phase out nuclear power altogether and close its remaining 18 nuclear power plants by about 2020.
AP-ES-11-07-04 1104EST
This was reported earlier but it's still funny the second time around. I imagine he died slowly, with enough time to reflect on his acute brain retardation.
The earlier one had injured in the title. He went full Darwin in this one.
ha ha ha ha
Man, first that Manhattan Veal and now this. The Dems are dropping like flies!
Anybody got a train schedule for the next shipment? Maybe we can get Martin Sheen to put his legs where his mouth is!
Kind of hard I would imagine to stop a train with your leg..Well so much for liberal common sense.
too freaking funny ! what a freaking idiot ! the human gene pool is better off without these kinds of fools
I wonder if he learned that stupid stunt at the Rachel Corrie school of protesting.
That guy's about as smart as the leftie who drove from Georgia to NYC to blow his brains out at Ground Zero. When so-called 'leaders' of the left are constantly droning on about how Bush will destroy the world, nuclear power will destroy the world, Karl Rove is in league with the Illuminati, etc. is it really surprising that some of their followers lose themselves in the hype and hyperbole? Given the extreme rants of the left, it's actually a bit surprising that we don't see more suicides and murders -- after all, Bush really IS plotting to destroy the world (oops, I gave away the secret plan).
Rachel Corrie bump.
That guy's about as smart as the leftie who drove from Georgia
to NYC to blow his brains out at Ground Zero.
Both were likely about as smart at the AP headline writer.
Is the ambulance crew being questioned for killing the protester after he was hit by the train?
Think of it as evolution in action.
Damn. First the Ground Zero suicide, now this. Darwin has been busy this week.
Lemmings.
There's a joke about the 'half life' of his leg in here somewhere.
I know the left wing press over uses the word irony...
This guy discovered the same thing that girl that got in front of the Israeli bulldozer learned, only the lesson is lost on him too.
So can this guy claim he was klled by radioactive waste?
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