TODAY, Monday 14 December 2009
WHEN: TODAY, Monday 14 December at 10am
WHERE: Hobart Magistrate Court
The dragged out trespass case against 18 Upper Florentine forest
conservationists is currently adjourned to allow the conservationists to run an
‘abuse of process’ case. Hearing will be in today’s Magistrate Court.
This comes after Forestry Tasmania, in a stunning last gasp effort, announced
they had miraculously unearthed a new and mysterious exclusion zone that
the conservationists apparently entered when arrested in the Upper
Florentine on Mother’s Day.
The trespass charges were expected to have been withdrawn by Tasmania
Police due to Forestry Tasmania’s more than 200-metre-wide bungle in
defining its own exclusion zone, which caused the test case regarding this
same matter against Ellendale resident Lynda Blyth to be dropped on 21st
September, after the police chose to not present any evidence about the
apparent new exclusion zone. The ‘new’ exclusion zone appears to have
been so secret that Tasmania Police and Forestry Tasmania didn’t even know
about it at the time of the arrests.
www.facesoftheflorentine.com
Faces of the Florentine. Ordinary people standing up for an extraordinary forest
