Hungary Detains Four in Parliament Nuclear Alarm
Date: 27-Apr-05
Country: HUNGARY
Guards sounded the alarm when the activists, three Russians and a Hungarian interpreter, produced a bottle of water and a box of earth outside the parliament building while the chamber was in session, police said.
Fearing the objects were radioactive, officials cordoned off part of the square around the building, and a disaster defence unit checked the area in protective suits.
"The water and earth were examined ... and the result was negative," Budapest police said in a statement. It said the men had been detained because they had not officially announced the demonstration.
A local official from the environmental activist group Greenpeace said the Russians came to Budapest from the Chelyabinsk region in the Urals.
