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"Police have backtracked on their claim that a climate protest on the Sydney
Harbour Bridge last year blocked an ambulance with its sirens running from
responding to an emergency, an assertion repeatedly referred to in the jail
sentence of demonstrator Deanna “Violet” Coco.
On Tuesday Alan Glover and Karen Fitzgibbon, two of the four people co-accused
of blocking the bridge during a climate protest last April, appeared before the
Downing Centre local court for sentencing over the protest.
Magistrate Daniel Reiss sentenced each of them to an 18-month community
corrections order and a $3,000 fine over the protest.
But agreed facts tendered as part of the case revealed that the New South Wales
police now concede that “no ambulance was obstructed from responding to an
emergency as a result of the incident” during the April protest.
The statement differs from a set of facts tendered by police during Coco’s case
last year, which saw her sentenced to 15 months in prison with a non-parole
period of eight months. She has launched an appeal against the sentence."
Via Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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