We use simple means to sabotage the enemy’s infrastructure. That the car rental company Hertz is an enemy became known not only after an attack on their branch* and further fires of their vehicle fleet in Athens. Not only the Greek police is equipped by Hertz with vehicles at preferential conditions, but also in other states active and former cops and military are supported according to self-advertisement.
Hertz is one of the companies that force the constant need for mobility. Everything and everyone must always be immediately available everywhere. Delivery services, rental vehicles and Uber now dominate traffic in cities. Along the way, they create data collections about moving things and people for the police’s tracing computers, Hertz also by filming drivers while they drive.
In the social war and in the war state against state, we stand flagless on the side of the oppressed against the oppressors and Hertz stands on the side of power, sometimes under the Greek flag in the jeeps of OPKE, sometimes under the US flag on the trucks of the National Guard or under the flag of capital on their vans, with which they profit in Germany from the compulsion of the citizens to constantly move to another place from expensive apartments.
On the night of May 25, we set fire to a Hertz truck in the northern Berlin district of Reinickendorf as a minimal sign of our solidarity for Giannis Michailidis, who has been on hunger strike in Malandrinos prison since May 23.
We also wish Lina, who has been in pre-trial detention for 18 months, much strength and freedom.
At the same time, our action is in the framework of similar acts around the world that burn to ashes everything that can be useful for the war.
… until the destruction of the last cage. (A)
Source: Kontrapolis
*DN Note: We re-post and re-translate the follwoing communique from 2020:
Athens: Responsibility claim for arson attack on Hertz
In the last year, no matter how many things we see that have changed, one thing definitely remains the same: the blessing of Chrisochoidis (Citizen Protection Minister) and Koulis (Prime Minister’s nickname) for the dirt of the cops. Nea Dimokratia has announced that the cops will be at the forefront of implementing its policies. It seems that the government has given them total control over how to deal with the cities.
The new ordinary picture is blue units, controls, fines, bullying and beatings. This is the everyday situation we are experiencing. The paradox is that almost everyone sees this as normal. What makes us even angrier, especially these days, is the increasing repression. When we see how cops behave, we remember more intensely than ever that the same scum, with the same state responsibility, murdered an underage companion of ours 12 years ago.
While we are spontaneously enraged by the cops’ behavior, they are not the only ones responsible. Responsibility also rests on the shoulders of everyone who supports and makes easier the shame they call job. Hertz has been working with the Greek police for several months, providing them with vehicles. Vehicles with which the cops can control more areas and more easily roam the cities to more quickly intimidate and arrest those they do not like.
In line with these thoughts, on the morning of December 6, the day of the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the cop Korkoneas and his accomplice Saraliotis, we set fire to a Hertz vehicle on Syggrou Avenue.
As a small tribute to the memory of Alexandros and all our dead Comrades. As a minimum reaction to the existence of the cops and the state. As a short breath of freedom in the suffocating stranglehold of the metropolis.
AGAINST ANY FORM OF OPPRESSION – LET US NOT GET USED TO REPRESSION
Nights in December