Alina is no Hooligan
UPDATE (29 November 2001): Alina was released from custody after three nights in a remand cell pending trial. She is under police surveillance, meaning that she has to report every evening to the main police station in her hometown Daugavpils. The Prosecutor General's spokesman Dzintra Subrovska said charges of "threatening the health and life of a high foreign official" which carried a 15-year prison sentence would not be brought against her. It looked like Alina would be charged with hooliganism (see also link). Alina Lebedeva is facing up to two years in prison if convicted.
UPDATE (15 December 2001): The authorities in Latvia have dropped charges of hooliganism. An official of the prosecutor's office said that the teenager was found to be a diligent student and had no previous criminal record. There is still a possibility that she will be required to do community work or face other correctional measures, including being sent to a special reform school.
UPDATE (21 January 2002): A court in Riga has ordered Alina to undergo "educational measures" and also ordered Alina's mother to keep a closer eye on her daughter. If Alina commits a crime or engages in hooliganism again, her mother could be put on trial. Judge Andis Celms ordered the educational measures for up to one year without expanding on what they will be. Lawyers in the Baltic state said the ruling was the most lenient one that the teenager could have hoped for.
1. YEAR ANNIVERSARY (8 November 2002): We haven't heard from Alina in a long time. But no matter where you are, this world still needs courageous people like you. Now more than ever.
Riga, Latvia, 8 November 2001
- Charles' flower attacker ordered to 'learn', Ananova 21 January 2002
- Prince Charles flower attacker won't be charged, Ananova, 15 December 2001
- Prince's flower attacker off the hook, BBC News, 14 December 2001
- La jeune Lettone qui avait frappé le prince Charles inculpée, Voila, 30 November 2001
- Charles' flower attacker faces hooliganism charge, Alina Lebedeva is to be charged with
hooliganism and faces up to two years in prison if convicted, Ananova, 29 November 2001
- Une jeune Lettone qui a agressé le prince Charles "ne regrette pas", Le Monde, 26 November
2001
- Meet the carnation terrorist, Despite risking up to 15 years in prison, the 16-year-old girl who
swatted Britain's Prince Charles with a carnation to protest the war in Afghanistan says she has
no regrets, South African Press Association, 25 November 2001
- Flower Girl Sorry, 16-year-old girl who slapped Prince Charles with a flower earlier this month
has sent a note apologizing for the incident, her father said, Moscow Times, 23 November 2001
- Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga said the media had over-dramatized...,
BNS-CITY PAPER, 14 November 2001
- Flower Power, Amelia Gentleman meets the unrepentant anti-war protester, Guardian,
13 November 2001
- Royal plea gets flower attacker out of jail, Ananova, 12 November 2001
- Prince Charles' Carnation Attacker Freed, Stuff, 12 November 2001
- Charles bittet um Gnade fuer Blumenattentaeterin, Spiegel, 10 November 2001
- Prince's attacker faces 15 years, Guardian, 10 November 2001
- Prince defends Flower Girl Attacker, Ananova, 10 November 2001
- Family of schoolgirl protester ask Prince Charles to intervene, Ananova, 9 November 2001
- Schoolgirl charged with endangering Prince's Life, Ananova, 9 November 2001
- Prince Charles hit by War Protester, Ananova, 8 November 2001
Links:
- Reply Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia regarding Alina Lebedeva,
courtesy of anon., thank you
- Entry in the diary of Prince Charles for 8 November 2001, no mentioning of the incident was
made here
- Official Picture Gallery of the Prince of Wales, Funny enough it includes a picture which must
have been taken only minutes if not seconds before the incident, see photo below
- Latvia in NATO, one of the things Alina protested against
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
- Homepage of the President of Latvia, the woman who labelled Alina "mentally unstable"
- Alina Lebedeva, Shady Productions (publishers of underground poetry and prose) Support Site
- The Girl of Flowers or Saint Veronica, or The Rehabilitation of Prince Charls, or The Rehabilitation
of Flower Girl byJurate Macnoriute
Emails of Support / Guestbook / Forum / call it what you want
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(I might want to add that I don't know Alina Lebedeva personally. So I can't put people in touch with her. But if you want to send me an email I can post it at the Support Site. You never know, she just might find this website and try to make contact.)
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