Police said the situation resembled civil war, however the violence had mainly emanated not from local citizen's interest groups but from demonstrators that had travelled to the area. The SPD Social Democrats politician said the perpetrators were people intent on bringing about a different republic and prepared to show it. The peaceful demonstrators had become the losers in this as they had been shoved aside by the anarchists, he added. The radioactive waste, originally from German power plants, had arrived in Dannenberg by rail this morning in a container weighing more than a ton, before being transferred onto a special truck. According to police, the transport via rail had been without incident.
Parties row over Castor transport Bonn.
The riots surrounding the Castor transport have triggered a row among the major parties in Bonn. SPD and the Greens again demanded an end to the use of nuclear power, while at the same time distancing themselves from the violent actions of the anti-nuclear protesters. They stressed however that the police had gone too far in their counter-measures. Trittin said the violence originated from the state in this particular case. Greens parliamentary faction spokesperson Mueller called for a discontinuation of the use of nuclear power as an energy source because the matter of terminal storage remained unresolved.