#0142* - Heavy handed security criticised by Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP
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Heavy handed security criticised by Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP!
With A Party From Her Constituency!

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Protest in Strasbourg

Heavy handed security criticised by MEP

EU Reporter Correspondents

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Middle England descended on the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week to protest against the granting of "special rights" for travellers by the ECHR.

The Strasbourg based court has granted special rights that include priority access to healthcare and education, and which allow travellers to settle on land which otherwise not be considered suitable for residential purposes. Villagers from the West Midlands village of Meridan - which is geographically at the very centre of England - have had their lives disrupted by the arrival of a large number of travellers who have churned up a swathe of protected Green Belt land, and have moved caravans and other vehicles onto the land.

"If you give one group of people special rights" said MEP Nikki Sinclaire "then others automatically become the losers. All discrimination is wrong."

Rather ironically, the 30 or so residents, who staged a brief protest outside the Parliament building, attracted the ire of both parliament security staff and the French Riot Police. It would seem that as they were wearing T-shirts carrying the name of their organisation - Residents Against Inappropriate Development - they were considered a danger to the security of the parliament. Before they were allowed into the parliament itself for a pre-planned meeting the residents were forced to remove their shirts, leading to the spectacle of a number of people, some quite elderly, being forced to change their clothes in the street under the eyes of armed police. "This was nothing short of an outrage", said Ms. Sinclaire.

The planned meeting eventually went ahead, and letters outling the nature of the protest were handed to President Buzek, and to President Costa at the ECHR.

To view the original article CLICK HERE

To view Sinclaire's Blog CLICK HERE

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