EU plans a travel ban on 'troublemakers'
EU security chiefs, including Home Office officials, are secretly planning a Europewide database of 'troublemakers' to stop them travelling to pro-*test*-('")s. People on the register – the brainchild of Germany – would not need to have been convicted of any offence and could include sit-down pro-*test*-('")ers. Britain would send 'alerts' to other European countries on people campaigning against the expansion of Heathrow or the war in Iraq. According to EU documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday, the list is designed to stop the 'troublemakers' travelling to further demos abroad. Germany wants a crackdown after clashes at last year's G8 summit there. Tony Bunyan, of human rights group Statewatch, said: 'A pattern is emerging where people who exercise their democratic right to attend cross-border pro-*test*-('")s are confronted by aggressive paramilitary policing.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=562276&in_page_id=1770 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is their definition of 'troublemaker'? If this list consists of those who've been tried and convicted of something relating to a pro-*test*-('"), then it wouldn't seem a great deal different in application to efforts to target and restrict the movements of notable football hooligans. But no conviction required? Whereas the power of the British legal system to enforce control orders may be subject to a welter of checks and proscriptions, and even then be ajudged by the system's top arbiters as legally untenable, the EU can demand the equivalent solely on suspicion? This is shameful.
EU security chiefs, including Home Office officials, are secretly planning a Europewide database of 'troublemakers' to stop them travelling to pro-*test*-('")s. People on the register – the brainchild of Germany – would not need to have been convicted of any offence and could include sit-down pro-*test*-('")ers. Britain would send 'alerts' to other European countries on people campaigning against the expansion of Heathrow or the war in Iraq. According to EU documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday, the list is designed to stop the 'troublemakers' travelling to further demos abroad. Germany wants a crackdown after clashes at last year's G8 summit there. Tony Bunyan, of human rights group Statewatch, said: 'A pattern is emerging where people who exercise their democratic right to attend cross-border pro-*test*-('")s are confronted by aggressive paramilitary policing.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=562276&in_page_id=1770 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is their definition of 'troublemaker'? If this list consists of those who've been tried and convicted of something relating to a pro-*test*-('"), then it wouldn't seem a great deal different in application to efforts to target and restrict the movements of notable football hooligans. But no conviction required? Whereas the power of the British legal system to enforce control orders may be subject to a welter of checks and proscriptions, and even then be ajudged by the system's top arbiters as legally untenable, the EU can demand the equivalent solely on suspicion? This is shameful.