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21/02/2008
Terminal Five Disruption Planned
Activists plan to disrupt the official opening of Heathrow's £4.2 billion fifth terminal next month.
They are set to 'flood it' with hundreds of protesters, according to the London newspaper, the Evening Standard.
It has reported that demonstrators, wearing yellow T-shirts emblazoned with a 'Stop Airport expansion' logo will descend on the terminal on 27 March in a 'flash mob'.
The protest will initially be passive to evade strict laws banning direct action inside T5, but the presence of hundreds of protesters will threaten the travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers and create a security nightmare.
One anarchist source told the newspaper: "Imagine hundreds of very obvious protesters milling around, drinking coffee and at any time capable of doing something radical or staging a rather less passive protest; it is a security nightmare."
The protest is to be the culmination of a series of planned demonstrations aimed at bringing the airport to a standstill.
Protesters are also planning to infiltrate and disrupt the final security tests on T5 that will take place on 8, 11 and 13 March.
The disruption will be launched from a new protest camp on the airport perimeter which will likely be a 'security nightmare' for police and airport staff.
Environmentalists hope to have the eco-camp set up when the terminal opens so they can use it as a launch pad for protests.
In a move that will have severe security implications for police guarding the airport, anarchists are planning to set up camp in the nearby villages of Sipson, Harmondsworth and Harlington.
BAA told the newspaper that it would not comment on specific threats, but defended T5 as 'one of the most environmentally friendly terminals in the world.'
(BMcC)
They are set to 'flood it' with hundreds of protesters, according to the London newspaper, the Evening Standard.
It has reported that demonstrators, wearing yellow T-shirts emblazoned with a 'Stop Airport expansion' logo will descend on the terminal on 27 March in a 'flash mob'.
The protest will initially be passive to evade strict laws banning direct action inside T5, but the presence of hundreds of protesters will threaten the travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers and create a security nightmare.
One anarchist source told the newspaper: "Imagine hundreds of very obvious protesters milling around, drinking coffee and at any time capable of doing something radical or staging a rather less passive protest; it is a security nightmare."
The protest is to be the culmination of a series of planned demonstrations aimed at bringing the airport to a standstill.
Protesters are also planning to infiltrate and disrupt the final security tests on T5 that will take place on 8, 11 and 13 March.
The disruption will be launched from a new protest camp on the airport perimeter which will likely be a 'security nightmare' for police and airport staff.
Environmentalists hope to have the eco-camp set up when the terminal opens so they can use it as a launch pad for protests.
In a move that will have severe security implications for police guarding the airport, anarchists are planning to set up camp in the nearby villages of Sipson, Harmondsworth and Harlington.
BAA told the newspaper that it would not comment on specific threats, but defended T5 as 'one of the most environmentally friendly terminals in the world.'
(BMcC)
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