Posted on 09/20/2013 8:33:56 AM PDT by cunning_fish
Russian border guards said Friday that they would tow Greenpeace's Arctic protest ship to port after armed officers boarded the ship and locked up the activists.
Border guards stormed the ship after Greenpeace activists scaled an oil platform owned by state energy giant Gazprom to protest against planned drilling on the Arctic shelf.
Special forces officers armed with guns locked up crew members on the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker ship after lowering themselves onto the deck with ropes from a helicopter.
"At this moment, the Arctic Sunrise ship is being taken to the port of Murmansk," Greenpeace said on Twitter on Friday morning.
"The decision was taken that the Arctic Sunrise will be taken to the port of Murmansk for further legal procedures," a spokeswoman for the Murmansk region's border guards -- a branch of the FSB security service -- told the RIA Novosti news agency.
She said that the captain had been questioned but that a full investigation would take place when the ship reaches port.
Murmansk is 1,485 kilometres (920 miles) north of Moscow. Border guards said the rest of the ship's journey would take three days.
Russia's FSB security service, which controls the border guards, has accused the ship's captain of carrying out "unlawful activities."
Greenpeace expert Roman Dolgov told RIA Novosti from onboard the ship: "We are facing quite serious accusations: of terrorism and carrying out illegal scientific research."
He said the activists were locked in the mess but allowed out to go to the toilet or smoke.
Greenpeace said border guards on Wednesday had detained two activists who were attempting to scale Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya oil platform and took them on board their patrol boat.
The border guards later returned the two activists from Finland and Switzerland to the Arctic Sunrise and locked them up with their
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They should turn it over to the French, they’ll know what to do with it.
It would be kinda funny if the Greenpeace folks were tried, convicted and sent to a prisonin Siberia.
Scuttle the damn thing.
Sounds “cool”...no pun intended...sorta
/johnny
The whale wars ship is already under injuction for piracy.
perhaps Obama’s crack team of military fashion design diva team can do something “protecting the USA” other than arranging flowers.
Guess this means there are no more funds coming to the Green Peace enviro thugs from Ivan.
So now, they have to get all of their funding from the Opecker Princes.
Use it for target practice...after removing and depositing the crew in a gulag (the crew needs to reflect, everyday, on the path they chose in life).
I will say this - I never thought Greenpeace ever did their “activism” crap on the Russians or Chinese. So they did it once - kudos to them.
Now I am sure they will not do it again...
yes....I love it.....a country that actually stops this nonsense.....if nothing else, the terrorists should be kept waiting for trial for many, many months in poor cold conditions.
Just a thought. We hire Russian security to police PETA demonstrations.
ROTFLMAO.............ROTFLMAO......must stop.......can’t breathe...........ROFLMAO
They can all sit around and sing songs and play the sitar (or whatever)...*LOL*
Arctic Sunrise, soon to be recycled into drill shaft sections.
Nothing like some well armed folks dropping in on you via rope descent to liven up your day.
Russians 1
Greennuts 0
I like the cut of this man Putin’s jib.
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