Posted on 10/09/2013 5:48:12 AM PDT by cunning_fish
MOSCOW, October 9 (RAPSI) - Greenpeace activists on trial for maritime piracy in Russia soon may face new charges after drugs were found at the Arctic Sunrise ship, Investigative Committee's official spokesperson Vladimir Markin told journalists on Wednesday.
Markin added that the investigators have secured an official court order to seize the ship. Earlier, 30 members of the crew were charged with maritime piracy. "With this new evidence that came to light during the investigation, the charges against the accused will be augmented accordingly. It is very clear to the investigation that a number of participants will be chraged with other serious crimes," Markin said.
The Arctic Sunrise ship was seized by Russian border guards on September 19 in international waters, within Russia's exclusive economic zone, a day after two Greenpeace activists scaled the Prirazlomnaya drilling rig in the Pechora Sea, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea. Greenpeace claimed that the ship was held under armed guard.
The platform, owned by Gazprom Neft Shelf, a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom, is the first ice-resistant stationary oil platform in the world set to produce offshore Arctic oil.
Greenpeace and other environmental groups oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic because they say that it is currently impossible to sufficiently clean up potential oil spills in the region, and that such drilling cannot be economically viable without state subsidies.
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Do you really believe that a boat of Greenpeace activists didn’t bring a stash with them for a trip to the arctic circle?
Then there are those other places.
It is important to know the difference.
GP apparently either does not know the difference or they deliberately pushed these people in the water to see if there was a shark.
It’s just too bad they weren’t protesting Turkey
or maybe one of those countries with the death penalty
for drugs.
Good for them! Seize it and scrap it. Then shoot every one of the Green Peace bastards you have locked up and every other one you catch.
After 90 years of the Gulag Archipelago They have quite a bit of work ahead of them.
Among other nasty habits such as supporting various addictions, they do things with each other which a mink farmer wouldn’t allow to occur in any of his cages.
Either way works with me. If this is a bad rap, it makes up for one they [Green Peace] deserved but got away with.
They'll kill you for kicks.
HA HA! I love it.
More importantly, did they find any functioning showers?
nice to start off the day with a big smile....
Of course, the moomies were SO very successful in freeing their hero from prison where he's now rotting away for life for murdering a police officer.
On certain levels, it must suck to choose radicalism for a lifetime career. Your retirement home may just not turn out to be a Florida condo.
Leni
Yes they do, as does all of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Stans, Mongolia, and maybe eventually Vietnam and China.
No nation has yet completed the journey back from civilization killing Communism.
Russia and Eastern Europe are trying to repair their economic, legal and political systems, and are making progress in the right direction despite great turmoil in the legal systems.
The Communist press and Communist lawyers, court shopping and judge shopping, are just as tricky in Russia and Eastern Europe as they are here in America.
We will see who wins, and who commits suicide.
Knowing the typical “greenie” it’s a virtual guarantee that a number
of them loved their “herb” and brought a stash with them on the boat
to help while away the hours. It’s just taken a bit of time for the russians
to finish searching a good sized ship with LOTS of hidey holes for
a baggie or three.
In this case, a distinction without a difference
Exactly. A Greenpeace vessel is sort of like an ocean-going version of Willie Nelson's tour bus.
I’m sure the Greenpeace dudes will “confess” to the crimes of possessing the drugs. And they will “confess” to being involved in several anti-Russian conspiracies, and will name others involved. Including people they’ve never heard of. Don’t pay any attention to the red stains on those signed confessions. The defendants were probably a bit sloppy when they were shaving.
I suspect most of these “peace” activists are frequent users of weed and more. There is no doubt in my mind the Russians found the stash.
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