"The forces of law and order pounced on me. In their van, two cops forced me to the ground, handcuffed. They hit me without stopping, on my head, legs, and above all in the ribs and kidneys as well as my genitals. I said: `'I'm not putting up any resistance'. But they answered: `You dirty anarchist, there's no camera here, so let's go.'

"They hit me again and again, shouting `You want to demonstrate: you'll see what it means.' I begged them to stop but they retorted: `No, we'll hit you harder'. I felt really terrorised. I thought they would never stop and that they wanted to cause me to become handicapped.

"At the police station at Woluwé I had to keep asking to be taken to hospital. Dr Pol De Vos, who was arrested at the same time as me, had to insist for 20 minutes in order to be allowed to examine me. And after that we had to wait another half-hour before they would call an ambulance. The cops wanted one of their own doctors to confirm Pol de Vos's diagnosis.

"I have four broken ribs, damage to my stomach and diaphragm – which is causing me breathing difficulties, concussion and injuries to my genitals, my neck, my teeth and jaw.

"People should realise what the police are doing. There is a direct link between the atrocities committed by NATO in Yugoslavia and the repression of the peace movement in this country. NATO is against Yugoslavia, but it is also against what it calls the enemy within.

"I would ask everybody not to let themselves be intimidated by what has happened, but to strengthen the struggle. Let us mobilise everywhere against the war so that we can change things.