On November 3 and 4, four high schools in Santiago agitated with leaflets, banners, barricades and confrontations with Molotov cocktails against the presence of carabineros (COP), in commemoration of the comrade Kevin Garrido murdered five years ago inside Santiago 1. Refreshing his memory, we share a brief account of his life trajectory:
In the early morning of November 19, 2015, eighteen-year-old Kevin, in complicity with the night, went on his bicycle to the perimeter of the gendarmerie school of San Bernardo, armed with a bomb, a lighter and a knife. After the detonation, the filthy police, who were already on his trail after a long investigation, captured him a few meters from the place, and simultaneously, Joaquín García was kidnapped from his home, leaving both of them in captivity in the filthy high security prison, specifically in the maximum security section. Accusing both of the explosive attack ( thwarted) to the 12th police station of carabineros of San Miguel (October 29, 2015), bomb “composed of a 6 kilogram fire extinguisher filled with more than 3 kilos of black powder, about 100 4-inch nails and 50 1-inch nails inside to function as shrapnel, a 1 liter bottle of sulfuric acid and two one-liter bottles with benzine, all this activated by remote control, consisting of a cell phone connected to a 2.5 volt light bulb modified as a detonator”, claimed by International Conspiracy for Revenge/Deflagration Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos, also for an explosive attack to the electricity company Chilectra (October 16, 2015) claimed by the Karr-kai Cell and the explosive attack against the gendarmerie school in San Bernardo (November 19, 2015), the latter two attacks linked only to Kevin. [DN Note: All three attacks have been translated below for reference]
After 7 months in captivity, Kevin asks to be transferred to the prison/slaughterhouse Santiago 1.
On June 15, 2018, the inquisitorial trial of the comrades begins, declaring them guilty on August 15; Joaquín for illegal possession of a firearm, which he was carrying at the time of being captured while he was in hiding after breaking a total house arrest measure, and also for the attack on the 12th police station in San Miguel, together with Kevin, who was also found guilty of the explosive attack on the gendarmerie school in San Bernardo. On September 5, 2018 they are sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison for Joaquín and 17 years for Kevin.
On November 2, when going down to the yard, the comrade is involved in a fight with another prisoner, which seemed to be one of the many daily conflicts that are lived in that place, being lethally wounded; without receiving timely medical assistance, he is transferred already deceased from Santiago 1 an hour and a quarter later to the external hospital “Barros Luco”.
Banners and pamphlets read: “Fire to the prisons and to those who sustain them. Every death in prison is a State crime. Kevin Garrido present”, “Down with the cages of civilized society”, “Long live terror, explosions and fire”, “Five years after the murder of comrade Kevin Garrido. We call for a black November in memory of those fallen in the social/anti-social war” and “Joaquín García to the streets”.
Below are some pictures of the events:
Liceo de aplicación (Friday, November 3).
Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño (2nd November)
Instituto Nacional (2nd November)
Internado Barros Arana (2 November)
DN Notes:
We translate for reference the communiques of ‘International Conspiracy for Revenge/Deflagration Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos’, ‘Karr-kai Cell’ & ‘the explosive attack against the gendarmerie school in San Bernardo’.
Santiago, Chile: Claim of thwarted attack on San Miguel Police Station by ‘International Conspiracy for Revenge/Deflagration Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos’ (October 29, 2015)
“We know that it never gets dark there, inside the prisons. There, memories are frozen, and one forgets what the sky looks like without bars and barbed wire. If death has its own color, it must be the one painted in its prisons. For the realm of slow death lies within, and one can feel it every day.”
When a like-minded person falls into the clutches of power, we cannot remain perplexed and watch passively as the bars are imposed against his will. There is no need to mention the circus on the part of the media apparatus, always a slave of the bourgeois order – just like the rotten police citizens – even if we expect nothing from it, hatred arises every time we see our comrades flagellated in the feast that the press and the police put on, celebrating the capture of a new “trophy”.
While solidarity is always important – in all aspects – we cannot be satisfied with many of the actions that are raised in support of our comrades, although they are always necessary. We believe that an important part of recognizing oneself as a revolucionarix is to be willing – as they are – to attack the state apparatus and capital. In this way, we believe that solidarity must transcend words, be forged in attack and thus be transformed into constant action against order. Because, the recognition of affinity is accompanied by complicities and experiences, which create an unbreakable bond between anonymous people.
For all of the above mentioned, is that on Thursday, October 29th at approximately 02:00 in the morning, we moved cautiously through the streets of the commune of San Miguel. Armed with a bomb, composed of a 6 kilogram fire extinguisher filled with more than 3 kilos of black powder, about 100 4-inch nails and 50 1-inch nails inside to function as shrapnel, a 1 liter bottle of sulfuric acid and two one liter bottles of benzine, all this activated by a remote control, consisting of a cell phone connected to a 2.5 volt bulb modified as a detonator. All this to attack the bastards of the 12th police station, located on Alvarez de Toledo and Gran Avenida streets. After placing our vengeful gift at the back gate of the police station, next to the useless security guard’s booth, we left the place without any problems. Being far away and safe, we made the call that should have activated the bomb. Unfortunately for us and fortunately for the miserable ones, something inside the electrical circuit failed. Our intentions were and are clear, to cause as much damage as possible to the den of green and white -and every fucking authority that comes our way in our lives-, we calculated that the explosion would be able to bring down the gate and hopefully cause the death of some police officer, accompanied with the greatest suffering of their families, if possible they choose to commit suicide.
We salute the assumed prisoner of war Ignacio Muñoz, who was kidnapped on August 1st of this year carrying a one kilo fire extinguisher filled with gunpowder plus propaganda by those accused of the attack on the PDI and who today is in jail serving a 5 month preventive detention.
If yesterday we failed, tomorrow and always we will continue attacking.
FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE WORLD!
WE WILL BE BACK…
International Conspiracy for Revenge/Deflagration Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos.
PS: In the photo, the cables are not connected, for our safety.
Source: Contra Info
Santiago, Chile: Attack on Chilectra company (October 16, 2015)
The clouds, the rains, the storms, the hurricanes, the tidal waves, the tremors and earthquakes, the volcanoes that burned months ago, is the sign that the earth is taking revenge, is shouting and making war against this civilization that day by day collaborates with its society to destroy and murder animals, to cut trees and cut hills, to expand invisible signals and forcing animals, bugs and all kinds of life to flee from where they were raised. It is not something new, we know it and we have taken it into account, but it is something that we can not let pass as if nothing, somehow as cells, action groups we must attack points of collaborators so that they know that there are groups and cells willing to attack and avenge, that there is no destruction without revenge. If electricity and its plants invade habitats in natural and wild places where there are no invaders of civilized society, attack that electricity plant, however (paint, Molotovs, explosive devices, etc.).
The night of Friday October 16th facing the reality imposed by the technology-industrial that in turn uses the state and capital (Parenteis 1: Because without the numbing current technology they would not have the ease of manipulation that they have ”thanks” to their technological devices) (Parentesis 2: Because without the numbing current technology they would not have the ease of manipulation that they have ”thanks” to their technological devices): By saying ”thanks” ”current technology” we are NOT referring to the acceptance of this, but it is an example to understand why we believe that the industrial technological system is the one who is at the head of all the destruction of the earth and neither and we are totally away from the concern that these numb people walk with devices in their hands, because they are the ones who collaborate with the destruction of native valleys and the installation of wiring in hills) to achieve numb and turn them into walking machines expelling wifi signals, we have headed like arrows passing unnoticed by the police who prowled the sector (since certain streets of the avenue were with power outage) this time with total normality but with revenge and decision towards an electric company called chilectra located in Avenida el parron, Santiago we have placed a small explosive device which was a bottle of metallic juice with a few grams of powder with a double wick system with delay (while the caretaker of that company was sitting in his hut) to shake the ears of the watchmen of that sector and of course giving a warning that the electrical installations of this ”country” are in our target, for years these companies have collaborated and destroyed parts of the land to put their filthy metallic structures as well as their antennas that stress to friendly birds and that for their part (electricity companies) are collaborating with the destroyers of mountains better called dams. We regret that the explosive device installed in one of the perimeter fences had a small flaw that we have concluded that by using double fuse with delay, one of the holes of that metal bottle made the black powder gas to come out more easily which generated that the noise and the explosion that we expected was not as shocking and destructive as it was planned. We will get better and better with such failures.
Let the assassins know that there is no unexploded gunpowder in front of their faces.
Keep in mind that thought and action go hand in hand against the techno-industrial system.
This attack is just a warning that we are vigilant and the sound of the explosion does not rest nor sleep.
We salute the Warrior Ignacio Munoz who is kidnapped in ”the laboratory” Santiago 1. May your action is generating broad ideas of love and destruction of civilization.
Karr-kai cell
Note 1: We put in quotation marks the laboratory because Ignacio Muñoz when writing a communiqué refers to the prison company Santiago 1 as a laboratory.
Source: Contra Info
Santiago, Chile: Explosive attack on gendarmerie training school (November 19, 2015)
During the early morning, around 3:30 a.m. on November 19, 2015, a loud bang surprised the bastard jailer who was on duty at the Prison Training School of Gendarmerie.
A handmade bomb composed of black powder compressed inside a fire extinguisher activated by means of a fuse manages to detonate at the side gate of the School of jailers in the commune of San Bernardo.
The explosion left no injuries, but caused some damage to the school’s infrastructure. Quickly, Colonel Christian Alveal, director of the gendarmerie non-commissioned officer school, told the press:
“always the anarchic anti-systemic groups have threatened gendarmerie, its facilities and its personnel, and safeguard measures are permanently taken to effectively prevent events like these from having people and damage to the facilities.”
For his part, Vice President Jorge Burgos said that “the investigative process is in full swing and I understand that it has yielded good police results. This action will not go unpunished, which is the important thing”.
After the explosion, comrade Kevin Garrido was arrested in the vicinity of the sector by DIPOLCAR, who also arrested Joaquín García accused of this attack and the frustrated attack against the 12th Police Station. Both were remanded in custody.
