On the night of November 26, 2024, we attacked the headquarters of OptoPrecision in the Horn district of Bremen with incendiary devices. We set fire to the building in two different places. Stones, Molotov cocktails, and several liters of flammable mixture helped us with that.
OptoPrecision GmbH is a company based in Bremen. In its Security Systems division, the company develops surveillance technologies for the police, security services, and the military. Its product range extends from various laser and LED light sources to complete, custom-made systems for complex observation and surveillance tasks, both on land and at sea.
The company attracted our attention because of its close collaboration with the Saxony police. In collaboration with the Görlitz police department, OptoPrecision developed a mobile camera system for reliable video recordings, regardless of daylight, in order to identify people and vehicles. The use of the PerIS person identification system has made headlines this year. The system was tested in Saxony and, with the help of administrative assistance, at least in Lower Saxony, Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg and Baden-Württemberg.
Special technique for secret investigations
The cops are snooping around and increasingly intruding into all our private lives. OptoPrecision provides the technology for this. The company offers infrared laser lighting systems, specially designed for covert investigations by law enforcement agencies, which should allow for readable images from hundreds of meters away and in poor visibility conditions. It is increasingly being said that the cops are surveilling comrades for months, even years. OptoPrecision is happy to accept orders from the repressive authorities. This company is therefore co-responsible for the psychological terror, the sleepless nights, the isolation, the fear of searches, and also for the fact that comrades are in jail. We therefore consider our attack as a contribution to the practical work of fighting against repression. On this occasion, we send fiery greetings to our comrades who are in jail or on the run!
Surveillance technology has always been an important tool of the repressive apparatus. The digitization of society and the ever-new technical possibilities help the State to continue, in the future, to improve its public order capabilities. The radical left movement, anti-racist and anti-authoritarian, is already too often threatened by this evolution. A pessimistic view of the future must start from the fact that tomorrow’s right-wing governments and authorities are already preparing their weapons today. In the end, this will not only affect those who resist, but anyone who deviates from a state norm, who has a “bad” origin and/or is in a precarious economic situation. It is therefore not surprising that OptoPrecision not only accepts orders from the police, but also participates in the bloody business of Europe’s borders. On the company’s homepage, you can find techniques for the so-called “border protection.” The company’s vision of humanity is demonstrated, among other things, by the following excerpt from its homepage:
“The tasks of border protection include monitoring national borders and land, maritime, and aerial areas near the border.” In border protection, the challenge is to monitor people and objects over long distances, in varying weather and light conditions.
With OptoPrecision technology, people are monitored, chased, and ultimately killed. Continue reading “Bremen, Germany: Fire and flames for those who profit from fear. OptoPrecision attacked”
For my comrade Kyriakos X.
Goodbye comrade,
”You will be ashes, old world.
You’re destined for the path of destruction
And you can’t bend us
By killing our brothers in arms…
And know this
We will come out victorious
And even though our sacrifices
Are heavy”
Nazim Hikmet
Belatedly, I would like to write a few words about my comrade and companion for the past 6 years of my life, K. Xymitiris, who passed away in an apartment on Arkadias Street.
Together we struggled and shaped our opinions on anything that troubled us. I grew up with him, on a journey of discovering my combative identity. And Kyriakos was always by my side, not in front or in the back, but next to me. Holding my hand, supporting me, with his smile and his perspicacity. Always giving the correct answers while we were all mincing our words, clearing the landscape while we were all feeling lost. With a well-developed sense of solidarity, he always stood on the side of anyone who needed it, regardless of repression, being targeted, and his own comfort. Always first in all the struggles: against repression, gentrification, the labour sweatshops, colonialism, patriarchy, prisons. Indispensable as a comrade and as a friend, wherever he stood he filled the space with his modesty and militancy.
By advocating for unity in the struggle for the revolutionary cause, for confrontation, militancy and counter-attack, always with respect for those next to him, he made space where others suffocated. So he lived, at least by my side, militant and persistent, hopeful and smiling. Ready for everything, taking risks big and small, he gave his daily life to the struggle without a second thought.
Always by our side
to me, to his friends and his comrades, to anyone who needed him for the smallest or the biggest matter.
Always by our sideto take on the most tedious, the most risky role.Always by our side to hold our hand, to accompany us, to open the way.
Always by the sideof the migrant, the abused, the worker, the prisoner.
And always by my sideto support me, to help me, to listen to me, to struggle together with me, to hug me by pushing away the fear, to encourage me by pushing away the second thoughts, to fill the days and nights with comradeship and combativeness.
COMRADE KYRIAKOSNone of the goodbyes are enough. None of the texts can describe the pain of your loss. On 31/10 I was left half, on a path where I wanted you by my side. On 31/10 I lost that smile that only you knew how to evoke. On 31/10 I lost the hopefulness that only you could transmit to me. But on 31/10 I also made a promise to you, to me, to us and to so many others, that you would not be forgotten. On 31/10 I stayed behind to speak about you, about the struggle you gave and about those you did not manage to give. On 31/10 I raised up my fist and with my bloody mouth I vowed to STRUGGLE. On 31/10 I raised my fist and in the rubble of Arcadia Street I said KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS, ALWAYS PRESENT!
”Our most beautiful days we haven’t seen yet.
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
I haven’t said yet…”
Nazim Hikmet
With unconditional love
your comrade
Marianna M.
Source: athens.indymedia