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Santiago, $hile: Ciclo de cine May 2025

Posted on 2025/04/30 by darknights

CINEMA UNDER THE BOUGAINVILLEA OF VECINX – MAY 2025

“…There’s a frightening calm
vague memories of a Chicago
that May won’t let you forget.
For today…
…May come overflowing
from its own heart.”

Fragment of the song
“Los otros días”
Rubén Olivera

A new May with the smell of combat that leaves the black smoke of the street,
history that moves to action, action that moves to history.
Questioning and questioning everything, in order to embrace chaos with strength.
This is why we invite you to this new cycle of May cinema, to
reflect always heading towards anarchy …

“… The contempt I feel for the current system of exploitation and my
love for true freedom, obliges me not to ask or allow
to ask for any kind of clemency for me.
…
Finally, I beg you to extend to my friends and colleagues my affectionate
memories and my last goodbye. In the impossibility of seeing you again,
beloved friend, I send you with all my heart a tight embrace. With a viva la
anarchy, your comrade bids you farewell.
Louis Lingg”

Letter from Louis Lingg jail of Coocar Country, November 6, 1887.
Extracted from the book
“Ya lo sabrán lo sabrán por los estruendos”
Collections Black Memory

“There are those who defend work, condemn revolutionary actions
and from platformist, statist and syndicalist positions criticize
direct action and indignantly call themselves anarchists(…) I do not
want to fall into the monotony of work, nor do I want to sit
all the time watching from below, living on my knees, is not having
blood in my veins and my heart beats red hot, something worthwhile
: burn it all!”
Punky Mauri

PROGRAMMING
4/05: VIVA LA LIBERTAD (1931)
Two convicts are discovered in the middle of an escape attempt. One
decides to sacrifice himself so that the other can reach freedom. Years later
they meet again.

11/05: NO PROJECTION!
We will go to Anarkiza La Punk in Chillán!

18/05: HOW TO BLOW UP AN OIL PIPELINE (2022)
A diverse group of people, each with their own motivations,
decides to blow up an oil pipeline in Texas, USA.

05/25: THE SOCIETY OF DEAD POETS (1989)
A teacher inspires the students of a renowned and prestigious school through poetry to seek greater meaning in life.

WE WILL HAVE:
– Vegan delicacies
– Various infusions
– Anarchic propaganda table
– Discussion
– Collection for prisoners

NEW HOURS
Now from 17:00 hrs, (almost) every Sunday from May 2025
Ask for address (Santiago) to biblioangryantiso@riseup.net

CONVENES:
Biblioteca Anárquica Sebastián Oversluij Seguel
biblioangrayantiso@riseup.net // biblioangry.noblogs.org

PDF: ‘Memory Loss’ – Collected Communiques from CLODO

Posted on 2025/04/28 by darknights

PDF: Memory Loss

PDF: Memory Loss (Imposed)

“Our society of “IF… GO TO” – squared, codified, aligned, controlled – this society where we connect like trains in a rail yard, desperately hoping to reduce chance and cancel the revolt, where those in power consider themselves the indispensable designer or analyst, where the binary and the quantitative are supposed to solve the crisis, this society in which we live is unbearable and inhuman”

Machine in Flames: a documentary tracing the 1980’s computer-bombers

Posted on 2025/04/28 by darknights

Machines in Flames (2022, 50min) finds a secret history of destruction by following the footsteps of a clandestine group of French computer workers from the 1980s.

In 1980s Toulouse, an elusive group began bombing computer companies. ‘CLODO’ disappeared after three years, without ever being caught or ever to be heard of again. Two film makers launch an investigation into CLODO, looking for answers, motivations and identities, but are soon frustrated by a collective that struck in the dead of night, leaving in their tracks only ashes and the sporadic line of cryptic graffiti. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and late-night video recordings of CLODO’s targets into a meditation on computation, destruction, and the lure of archives.

Rome, Italy: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on 17 cars at the Tesla dealership

Posted on 2025/04/28 by darknights

Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on 17 cars at the Tesla dealership (Rome, March 31, 2025)

Few people in the world, nowadays, embody absolute Evil like the infamous entrepreneur and billionaire technocrat Elon Musk. It would be reductive, however, to consider him a classic cartoon “villain”, a character that would fit him like a glove, without realizing that this despicable individual is only the product of an economic and social system that marches towards its own self-destruction and that his expansionist aims symbolically summarize those of the system itself.

Officially entering the field of politics, all this is exemplified in his servility towards Trump, who has placed him in the front row of the reactionary, imperialist, sexist and supremacist offensive underway in the United States. Specifically, as a reward for his billionaire support for the electoral campaign, the newly elected president has awarded his favorite Dark Maga the leadership of DOGE, an ad hoc body that has quickly busied itself on cuts and reforms aimed at directly or indirectly affecting that slice of the population that is recognized by the new elite as “surplus”.

As for the companies he manages or founded, however, there are many examples to give

Neuralink is a startup that aims to create a system of neural interfaces that connect the human brain with artificial intelligence; he claims to have implanted his first brain chip, called Telepathy, in January 2024. The transhumanist dream that becomes reality, the utopia of the suppression of the “defective” components of humanity through human-machine integration, the creation of those efficient gears that technocratic capitalism has and will always badly need.

OpenAI, a company founded by Musk as an artificial intelligence research laboratory, has produced the first famous chatbot in history: ChatGPT. After abandoning its leadership due to a potential conflict of interest with its role in the development of AI for self-driving Teslas in 2023, he founded a rival startup, xAI, which has the stated purpose of training a generative artificial intelligence chatbot (Grok) that automatically learns to respond racistly, against the woke culture of which ChatGPT would be an expression.
In turn, through xAI Musk has recently purchased the X platform himself, the former instant messaging service called Twitter, well exemplifying the use of social media as a tool for algorithmic manipulation of public opinion for the most vulgar political purposes, as well as revealing in a now indisputable way the use of social media as an inexhaustible source of data for the use and consumption of AI BigTechs. Continue reading “Rome, Italy: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on 17 cars at the Tesla dealership” →

Greece: Nikos Palaiokostas, the Ghost, the Greek Robin Hood & brother of Vassilis Palaiokostas has passed away

Posted on 2025/04/26 - 2025/04/26 by darknights

This morning Nikos Palaiokostas passed away at Trikala hospital. Since 2021 Nikos had been released due to health grounds and was able to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in his family home in Trikala, from where he was able to leave twice a week, for dialysis treatment at the hopsital’s Kidney Unit.

Nikos Palaiokostas born in Moschofyto, in the mountains above Trikala, to a large family with a background as shepherds. He was a bank robber, beloved of the anarchist/revolutionary movement, hero of the poor in Greece and the older brother of the still wanted Vassilis Palaiokostas . He operated for several years either with his brother or alone, mainly committing bank robberies and one kidnapping.

After a brief job as a sailor, he quickly began to engage in ‘petty theft’ and ‘burglary’ together with his younger brother, Vassilis Palaiokostas, who in the meantime had begun earlier. In 1988, Nikos Palaiokostas was imprisoned in the prison of Trikala but with the help of his brother Vassilis, he escaped on 18th December of that year. However, on 3rd February, 1990, Nikos was arrested again for theft, while in April of the same year, Vassilis was also arrested for car theft while preparing a plan to help his brother escape again.

Palaiokostas’ acquaintance with Kostas Samaras (known by the nicknames Artist or Butterfly ) in the 1980s was crucial as the three of them began committing bank robberies in various areas throughout Greece. The most famous robbery of these took place in June 1992, when they robbed the National Bank branch in Kalambaka, Trikala, liberating 125,000,000 drachmas, which remains to this day the largest bank robbery in Greece.On 15th December 1995, the Palaiokostas gang carried out the first kidnapping in Greece, kidnapping industrialist Alexandros Chaitoglou from his home in Thessaloniki. The Palaiokostas gang then demanded a ransom of 260,000,000 drachmas for the industrialist’s release. The Chaitoglou family paid the ransom to the kidnappers, with the authorities launching a major manhunt at the time in their attempt to locate and arrest the gang. Only after 3 years of investigations and pursuits, in 1999, did they manage to achieve some results, as after a car accident at the Lamia – Livadia national road, the authorities arrested Vassilis, who was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison for the kidnapping of Chaitoglou.

Nikos Palaiokostas is ‘alleged’, according to the authorities, to be the organizer of the first helicopter escape from Korydallos prison of his brother, which took place in June 2006. The story goes, that two people hired a trip on a sight-seeing helicopter from Agios Kosmas, a coastal suburb of Athens. They hijacked the helicopter using a pistol and hand grenade, and forced the pilot to fly to the prison. When the helicopter arrived, guards believed the helicopter was a visit from prison inspectors. The helicopter flew the prisoners to a cemetery nearby, where they transferred to motorcycles and fled from there. Unfortunatly Vassilis was re-captured two years later on 2nd August 2008 in Thessaloniki.

Nikos is again ‘accused’ of the same action in 2009 this time liberating both Vassilis and his cellmate Alket Rizai. They climbed a rope ladder thrown to them by a female passenger in the helicopter as it flew over the prison courtyard. Guards on the ground opened fire and the woman fired back with an automatic rifle. One prison guard injured himself while trying to pull out his gun. Vassilis is still at large with a one-million euro bounty placed on him. His cellmate Alket Rizai was re-arrested in November 2009

Wanted for 16 years, Nikos was finally arrested in 2006, outside the village of Livadi on Mount Parnassos, after falling into a roadblock set up by the Livadia cops. He tried to avoid the roadblock by driving at high speed, but the car he was driving veered off course and went off the road. In recent years, Palaiokostas has been held in the Agios Stefanos prison in Patras. The state took its revenge by sentencing Nikos to 197 years and 376 months.

Nikos showed that we are not pawns of the capitalist system, that all laws of the state are to be broken, that there is no legal or illegal. The rich are only rich because they are left to be, Nikos and Vassilis understood that all that was needed was a trusted few to take it.

Nothing has changed since the Palaiokostas brothers humiliated the state & the rich of Greece. The rich are still rich and getting richer. There is need again and always of another cycle of expropriation, whether it is to fund revolution or to merely live against this existing rotting system of tyranny and inequality.

We will never forget or forgive, Nikos and Vassilis we are with you till the end.

“If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.”

Read the book ‘A Normal Life‘ for more on Vassilis and his brother Nikos.

Santiago, Chile: Incendiary outburst claim at Ex-pedagogico (UMCE) in memory of Martina and Mylan [Updated]

Posted on 2025/04/25 - 2025/04/30 by darknights

In the framework of the centenary of the Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo we vindicate the political and social history of our club, dissociating ourselves from the narrative that the B$N company and the Chilean state want to impose on us, we break the commercial party that they have wanted to impose on us due to the MURDER of Martina1 and Mylan by state agents on Thursday, April 10.

It has not only been 100 years of rebellion, but also 100 years of assassinations against the popular class. Which have not received justice, this is why we throw ourselves into the uncertain but necessary path of revenge and street fighting.

We do not forget Neko, Cristian Valdebenito, Ariel Moreno, Alex Nuñez, Pantruka2, Mylan, Martina and all those murdered by the state and drug traffickers who have subjected our people to misery and have used Colo Colo for their dirty business and distorting the important historical work of the club in social and political matters.

Against the state, the narco and all authority.

ANARCHISTS OF THE GB

Fotografías por Sinrvmbo

(1) Martina Riquelme (18) and Mylan Liempi (13) were run over and killed by a police tear gas car at one of the entrances to the Monumental stadium in the Macul district. The hit and run occurred when the police vehicle attacked a group of Colo-Colo fans who were trying to enter the stadium in an “avalanche”.

(2) Jorge Mora “Neco”, on January 28, 2020 is run over and killed by a police car in the vicinity of the Monumental stadium, the murder occurred after the return of the local league matches in full revolt, a situation that generated rejection in sectors of the soccer bars and there were some protests outside the stadiums.

Cristian Valdebenito was killed on March 7 after being hit in the head by a tear gas bomb thrown by the police during street clashes in the context of the riot.

Ariel Moreno is killed on January 29, 2020 after being shot by police during protests following the death of Jorge Mora “Neco”.

Álex Núñez is murdered on October 21, 2019, in the middle of the revolt when he is captured by the police and brutally beaten, he goes home but due to his injuries he has to go to the hospital where he dies because of the internal damage he had.

Iván Umaña “Pantruka”, was killed in April 2010 when he was run over by a water cannon truck in the vicinity of the Monumental stadium.

Attached is a text published in some pages where the group “Colocolinxs Antiautoritarixs”.

Because we are rebels by essence! Let’s go comrades to organize the revenge!

Once again the miserable police snatches Colocolinxs fans away from us. In 15 years the monopoly of state violence has gone unpunished in the streets around Pedreros, first killing Pantruca, then Neco and yesterday Mylan and Martina, 13 and 18 years old respectively.

We are not surprised by the classism, the carelessness or the lack of concern with which the “good citizen” has justified the police actions, nor by the putrid level of the scavenging press under the control of the powerful. It seems to be that there is always a valid reason for the guardians of order and private property to shoot, mutilate, run over or disappear, it seems that only they can attack with advantage and kill without consequences, that is why we are categorical in affirming that the avalanche does not kill, the police do.

An armored car of the Plasan TPV Sandcat type of Zionist origin -paradoxical, isn’t it? -They were not satisfied with that, they had the arrogance to disturb and attack the families of the murdered inside the hospitals. How does the press justify that? They did not show it, it did not exist, moreover, while they repeated in unison the discourse of crime and “the false fans”, the families made lucatones to face the funeral expenses. How does the “good citizen”, of good manners and morally impeccable justifies it? They simply overlook it, because in their servile logics and systematic inclusion there is no room to criticize the custodian of power. In this last sector is located a great portion of colocolinxs fans, these fans apparently do not know that in the sectors of Arica and Lautaro it is common that with or without avalanche, with or without riots, the police gasses you, wets you, imposes you an enclosure between horses, beats you because they can, because they can… because there is no resistance against the disproportion of forces between them and us. These fans are the same ones who repeat incessantly that the “club is above all”, the same ones who whistle when the team plays slow or backwards.

We ask ourselves, what is the limit of “the club is above all”? We as anarchists consider that no one is above us, no institution, collective or individuality oppresses us and shows us the ways in which we can put our ideas of liberation into practice. Sometimes, those supporters forget that the club is made by its people and it is not something ethereal, on the contrary, the club has an enormous and deep social dimension active in its role of identity and belonging, reflected in the endless number of social schools, dining rooms, collectives, cultural spaces, etc… the club is a sample of how we want to relate, horizontally and without authority.

But the patrician patriarchs in control of the S.A., with their airs of Arabian sheikhs try to isolate and alienate the fan who sees in the existence of his club an instance to promote other ways of living.., Paradoxically, the increase in the price of the tickets is justified in making a greater investment in security within CONMEBOL [South American Football Confederation] standards, the same bosses who, knowing about the murder of the fans, allowed the match to start because the show must go on even if it means rolling the ball over the blood of our brothers and sisters.

We expect nothing from the state since its existence means the presence of repressive apparatuses destined to the protection of a system that administers life and death in its favor, conveniently managing daily life for the sake of a peace that only benefits the powerful. It is the moment to reaffirm our persistent decision to fight against all authority and its eternal defenders, without bosses, narcos or yuta, because we are rebels by essence! Let’s go comrades to organize revenge!

Solidarity with Mylan and Martina’s families, surroundings and friends in these moments of pain and rage.

Antiauthoritarian Colocolinxs

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Greece: Text of the imprisoned anarchist Kostantinos K. from the Kassavetia prisons

Posted on 2025/04/25 by darknights

Text of the imprisoned anarchist Kostantinos K.

“To govern you is to watch you. To inspect you, to spy on you, to direct you, to encase you in laws, to regulate you, to record you…To control you, to measure you, to weigh you, to censor you, to order you… It means to tax you, to drink your blood… To terrorize you, to beat you, to disarm you, to strangle you, to imprison you, to try you, to condemn you, to deport you…
This is government, this is its justice, this is its morality.”

-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

As long as we experience modern totalitarianism, as long as the blades of domination cripple us, solidarity will heal our wounds like medicine. Even if they bury us, like seeds we will sprout, here and there, irregularly. In the most barren soils. We will bloom at unspecified times where they least expect it. Contaminating the fields of modern states.

On 12/11/24, I was sentenced to 6 months of pretrial detention. From the first days in prison, I submitted a request for release, which was rejected 40 days later. I submitted a second request and after waiting two months, I received a negative response, while at almost the same time, the case was scheduled for trial on May 2. This, in my opinion, is a ploy, as they rushed to set the court date without me having time to make a third request. Because in this case, for bureaucratic reasons, the procedures regarding the file would cease and therefore the result would be that I would be released due to the end of the term. However, I am quoting this as a note. I believe it is more important to mention what these responses of the judicial councils were regarding my requests. These are 30 pages of unfounded allegations and successive leaps of logic. In them, a ridiculous story unfolds where, given my guilt, they argue that the methodology and characteristics of this action demonstrate a person capable of committing more similar crimes, taking into account my particular personality, which they refer to again and again.

They talk about my disrespect for the authorities, to conclude that I have an overwhelming desire to harm them. They write once again about the books and publications of anarchist content that were found in my house, in order to strengthen the above repeated narrative of the very dangerous anarchist. They even quote part of the text that announced the action of October 11, which I am accused of. At that point, it writes about the beatings of young people by the cops in the city of Messolonghi. After this quote, they initially resort to the frivolous argument that these are incidents that only someone who knows the local police could know about. Claiming in essence that I am responsible for the specific text. Of course, in the second response, this claim is absent. It had been replaced with the equally arbitrary conclusion that I did the deed and bragged about it to third parties in the anarchist space who made the publication in question. All of this confirms how well the judicial scum know how to throw accusations into the air without any substantive basis. On 2/5 I am on trial in Messolonghi for placing an explosive device in front of the AT, facing charges of arson by intent, explosion by intent, possession of explosives and damage to another’s property.

The political background of this case is clear. I perceive this particular persecution as a direct attack on my person and on the way I choose to exist as a political subject. Not as an isolated situation, but as part of the hunt for consciences that the state has unleashed with the aim of crushing every trace of reaction even in thought. The dystopian present is growing. People are being taken to courtrooms because they possess stickers, posters and gadgets. The uniformed thugs of the Greek National Police (ELAS) are bursting into the homes of female students on charges of writing slogans, activists are being remanded in custody under ridiculous pretexts and the pit of repression is deepening. The state is death, it is the robbery of our breath, the debauchery, the suppression of human dignity. Nothing is accidental. This is its essence and it wants us expendable, if not dead.

However, unfortunately for the masters, with great stubbornness bars bend, walls fall, kingdoms crumble. The dynamics of the struggle are not suppressed. I still remember the fearful discussions of the cops who guarded the entire AT (cops station) area during my detention. Then I felt very strongly what it is like for fear to change sides. Nothing is in vain. Every moment of practical questioning of this rotten world is a punch to the body of power, a hammer blow to the knees of bourgeois justice, a blow to the foundations of confinement. Anarchy lives and will pass over them. The small streams of disobedience will transform into a rushing river. The anti-state struggles continue unmediated so that we can breathe, so that we can look each other in the eye, so that we can see the sun brighter, for the cause. Through the streets of denial, a new world will blossom.

A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who have been involved in any way with my persecution. Your solidarity gives me indescribable strength. Struggle is life and life is in the struggle.

Freedom for the comrades detained in connection with the Ampelokipi case.

Honour to the anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Fire to all cells.

K.K.

April 2025

Cassavetias Prisons

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Source: athens.indymedia

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Arson attack on government vehicles

Posted on 2025/04/25 by darknights

In the early hours of March 28, we placed six incendiary devices inside the ΕΥΔΑΠ (Hellenic Water Company) construction site in the Cholargos area, which engulfed state vehicles in flames. We are actively questioning the power of the state and the structure of its sovereignty, trying to weaken it by striking. We remind you that resistance action against the state and capital does not have one front, but many.

In order to achieve our promoted goals, it is necessary to overcome the limits of bourgeois legitimacy.

From the multiple demonstrations, to the extensive clashes with stones and Molotov cocktails in the central Syntagma Square, to the arson of state machinery, we are promoting the revolution everywhere and always.

KYRIAKOS YOU LIVE FOREVER A FIGHTER

EVERYTHING IN THE HANDS OF SOCIETY

CONSCIOUSNESS IS BUILT IN MASS STRIKES, OCCUPATIONS AND ON THE STREETS

EVERYONE ON THE STREETS ON MAY DAY

Revolutionary Coordination

Source: athens.indymedia

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Italy: Operation Scripta Scelera – absolution of the anarchists accused in the trial of Massa for the publication of ‘Bezmotivny’. An 8 month sentence for offense to the honour or prestige of the president of the republic

Posted on 2025/04/25 by darknights

OPERATION SCRIPTA SCELERA: ABSOLUTION OF THE ANARCHISTS ACCUSED IN THE TRIAL OF MASSA FOR THE PUBLICATION OF ‘BEZMOTIVNY’. AN 8 MONTH SENTENCE FOR OFFENSE TO THE HONOUR OR PRESTIGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC (ITALY)

On April 8th, 2025, the sentence was pronounced in the ongoing trial in Massa against four anarchist comrades indicted for the publication of the internationalist anarchist fortnightly ‘Bezmotivny’ (repressive operation on August 8th, 2023). The defendants – who were involved in the operation together with six other comrades for whom the proceedings remained at the investigation stage – were charged with incitement to commit crimes and apologia of crimes and offences of terrorism (art. 414 of penal code, paragraphs 1, 3 and 4) with the aggravating circumstance of the purpose of terrorism (art. 270 bis 1, penal code), for the publication of the about sixty issues of ‘Bezmotivny’, and of offence to the honour or prestige of the president of the republic (art. 278, penal code), concerning a specific article (‘Soffiare sul fuoco’, published in ‘Bezmotivny’, year I, issue 17, October 25th, 2021).

All the defendants were acquitted of the charge of multiple aggravated incitement to commit crimes ‘because the fact does not exist’, whereas Luigi was sentenced to eight months, without the application of recidivism, for offending the honour or prestige of the president of the republic (the other three defendants were also acquitted of this charge ‘for not having committed the fact’). The request for compensation by the State attorney’s office was also denied.

At the end of the indictment held at the previous hearing on April 1st, public prosecutor Manotti of the DDAA (‘Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism District Directorate’) of Genoa had requested 7 years’ imprisonment for Gino, 6 years for Luigi (with the revocation of the suspended sentence for a previous conviction imposed on him by the court of Ravenna) and 5 years and 6 months each for Gaia and Paolo, while the State attorney for the presidency of the council of ministers had requested compensation of half a million euro.

France: About the coordinated attack on the prisons over the last two nights

Posted on 2025/04/25 by darknights

*Armored guardhouse at the entrance to Toulon-La Farlède prison, Monday night, April 15, 2025.*

The nights of Sunday to Monday, April 14 and Monday to Tuesday, April 15, were marked by attacks on several penitentiary structures and their minions, in a dozen towns in the south of France and on the outskirts of Paris. Prison staff cars parked in parking lots (Réau, Valence, Villepinte, Aix-Luynes, Nîmes), alongside the national prison school (Agen) or in front of their staff quarters (Marseille, Nanterre) went up in smoke. In addition, the entrance to a prison was machine-gunned (Toulon-La Farlède), and the gate to an ERIS base was set on fire (Aix-Luynes).

This “coordinated attack” over two consecutive nights led the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) to take charge of the investigation, which was then entrusted to the Anti-Terrorist Sub-Directorate of the Judicial Police, local services and the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI). The investigation includes “three charges, including terrorist criminal association”, explained the Minister of Justice today, because “the very nature of the action” reflects a “concerted operation aimed at seriously disturbing public order through intimidation”. As for the prison guards, they are naturally disgusted, as Damien Tripenne, national secretary of the CGT penitentiary union, declared on a major radio station: “I have comrades, colleagues, who are bruised because it’s their vehicles that have been targeted, it’s their homes that have been targeted… fear is going to have to change sides” (RTL, 15/4).

In addition, the Ministry of the Interior’s spokespersons pointed out that in several places the tag “DDPF” (interpreted by the journalists as the acronym for “rights [or rather defense] of French prisoners”, named after a Telegram channel) was found, as well as “anarchist slogans”. This led them to put forward both “ultra-left groups” and “drug trafficking” in their chatter. A well-known “source close to the case” told a state news agency that “according to the initial elements of the investigation, the anarchist trail seems to be gaining ground in the vast majority of cases” (AFP, 15/4, 15h50).
Whatever the case, their hypothesis is that these attacks are linked to the struggle of some and others against the construction of vast high-security wards, i.e. veritable tombs where hundreds of prisoners will be buried alive from this summer onwards… and more generally against the toughening of prison conditions (reduced walks and activities, beatings and humiliations by guards…) encouraged by Darmanin’s arrival at the Ministry of Justice.

Here, then, is a first glimpse of this series of nocturnal attacks on the prison administration and the property of its minor personnel:

*Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), Sunday April 13, 11:30 pm: fire in eight cars belonging to ENAP student-guards.*

Agen (Lot-et-Garonne). At around 11:30 pm on Sunday April 13, unknown assailants drove up to the premises of the “École nationale d’administration pénitentiaire” (Enap) and set fire to the cars of prison guards in training. Six of them were completely destroyed by the flames, two others were damaged, and 1,000 student-guards were evacuated in the middle of the night to allow the fire department to intervene. A “DDPF” tag was found on the floor.
Réau (Seine-et-Marne). On the same night, Sunday to Monday, April 14, a female guard’s vehicle was set on fire in the prison parking lot, and traces of hydrocarbons were found on three other guard vehicles, which had not caught fire.

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