Prison and fine threat for revealing nuclear danger in France
A leading French anti-nuclear activist has been threatened with years of imprisonment and an enormous fine for publishing a secret report that shows a new type of reactor would not withstand an airliner crashing into it.
Stephane Lhomme, the spokesman of "Reseau Sortir du Nucleaire", an alliance of 815 anti-nuclear organisations, was last week (March 25th 2008) held 10 hours in arrest (garde-à-vue) by the DST secret service (...)