Anarchist Prisoners

Chile: Claim of incendiary attack on RED bus outside the San Miguel Prison

Posted on 2023/08/07 - 2023/08/07 by darknights

Received by e-mail:

Incendiary attack on RED bus outside San Miguel Prison

When we visualize the face of the enemy, we immediately recognize the prison and its penitentiary system, with all its apparatuses and officials, as a focus to destroy, since it is there where historically they have sought to imprison revolutionary minds and actions.

Both in the past and in the present, we know that our comrades in prison have had to resist on a daily basis the constant harassment of their bodies, as the gendarmerie tries to systematically provoke the demoralization of our comrades in prison, through humiliation, punishment, torture, threats to take away their visits or orders in the face of any act that alters the codes of domination within the modules.

That is why, by means of a precision attack, we have set fire to a RED bus with an efficient incendiary device outside the San Miguel Prison, with the aim of altering the passivity that can be smelled in the streets in the face of a society that watches and controls behavior, longing for submission and building a false belief about the impossibility of fighting it.

A special greeting to comrade Monica Caballero, who is in a new trial against her together with Francisco Solar for several explosive attacks against repressors and powerful people. Insurrectional solidarity with Monica and Francisco!

A warm embrace for Itamar Diaz who recently experienced the punishment of the San Miguel jailers after confronting their authoritarian dynamics. Also for the comrades in Santiago 1 who were dispersed to different modules after showing solidarity with Itamar.

For all of you, a gesture of solidarity turned into fire, trying to oxygenate the daily life in prison, know that you are with us in every action. A speedy recovery to comrade Zukato.

For the abolition of prisons!
To multiply the autonomous action!

Seditious Cell Santiago Maldonado – New Subversion (Célula Sediciosa Santiago Maldonado – Nueva Subversión)

Naples, Italy: March 28 crackdown operation: first hearing in Zac’s immediate trial set for Sept. 13

Posted on 2023/07/31 by darknights

Update on Zac

The opening of the trial with immediate procedure for Zac, who was arrested in Pozzuoli (Naples) on March 28 and is currently imprisoned in Terni prison, has been notified by the prosecutor. The immediate proceedings requested by the prosecutor involve skipping the preliminary hearing stage (GUP). Thus, the first hearing will be held directly in an assize court on Sept. 13 in Naples.

Solidarity and complicity, free Zac!

To write to Zac:

Marco Marino
C. C. of Terni
Campore road 32
05100 Terni

For those who would like to send contributions in support we invite you to send money by bank transfer:

IBAN: IT07V3608105138299544199741
BIC/SWIFT Code: PPAYITR1XXX
Payee: Luca d’Esposito
Reason: recharge

[Received by e-mail and posted at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/27/operazione-repressiva-del-28-marzo-fissata-per-il-13-settembre-a-napoli-la-prima-udienza-del-processo-con-rito-immediato-per-zac/]

Chile: Trial against Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero for the actions of the ‘Cómplices Sediciosos – Fracción por la Venganza’ and the ‘Afinidades Armadas en Revuelta’: updates on the July 18-20 hearings and continuation of the trial

Posted on 2023/07/30 by darknights

We publish a series of updates translated from Spanish on the hearings that took place last week, beginning July 18, in the context of the trial of anarchists Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero in Santiago, Chile. In particular, we publish those on the July 19-20 hearings and an informational update (in Spanish) on all the hearings from solidarity radio stations. Francisco and Mónica’s presence during the trial in the coming weeks will be via videoconference, while for the final phase, the closing arguments and the reading of the sentence, they will be back in court. During the July 18 hearing, prosecutor Álex Cortez said that for the prosecution he intends to impose a sentence of more than 150 years on Francisco and between 20 and 25 years on Mónica , while during the July 19 hearing Francisco reiterated his assumption of responsibility for all the actions, arguing their reasons and revolutionary significance. To supplement what has been published about the first day of the trial (updates, propaganda agitation activities and the live broadcast of the solidarity radio frequencies), we also include a brief and additional photographic account of the July 18 hearing.

To contextualize the trial and the actions for which the comrades stand accused today, we also invite you to read the following articles, updates, and statements: “Assuming responsibility” (Francisco Solar, December 2021), “Statement in view of the upcoming trial” (Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar, April 2023), “Statement on the struggle of anarchist and subversive prisoners in Chilean jails” (Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Joaquín García, Juan Aliste, Marcelo Villarroel, July 2023), “Declaration Facing the Beginning of the Trial” (Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar, July 2023), “They are not the first, nor will they be the last. In view of the beginning of the trial against Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar, accomplice words from the anarchist and subversive anti-authoritarian brotherhood in prison” (Joaquín García, Juan Aliste, Marcelo Villarroel, July 2023), and “Trial against Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero for the actions of the Cómplices Sediciosos – Fracción por la Venganza and the Afinidades Armadas en Revuelta: Agitation and propaganda, live on solidarity radio frequencies, presence outside the court (July 18, 2023).”

Revolutionary solidarity with Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero!

More pictures from the July 18 solidarity presence

Some of what happened today at the solidarity presence at the hearing for Mónica and Francisco [photographs are at the bottom of the article, ed.]

Let’s overflow in solidarity with comrades!

(Published in Spanish on the Coordinadora por la libertad de lxs prisionierxs politicxs 18 de Octubre ~~facebook page~~)

The trial against Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar has begun.

Around 08:30 this Tuesday morning [July 18, ed.], in Santiago’s Centro de Justicia, oral arguments began on the first day of the oral trial by which authorities intend to punish anarchist comrades Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar for attacking the former minister of the first Piñera government (nefarious repressor Rodrigo Hinzpeter), the 54th police station, located in the northern zone, and the Tánica building in the rich quarter.

The day was held in the Rondizoni building, with the presence of Mónica, transferred from San Miguel prison, and Francisco, transferred from La Gonzalina prison in Rancagua.

At the beginning of the hearing, the defense of the comrades asked for the removal of the excessive and ridiculous security measures, which consisted of handcuffs on the wrists, chains on the feet and a yellow vest, a request that was withdrawn only for the latter, maintaining the remaining measures.

Nicolás Toro, Francisco Solar’s lawyer, during a special broadcast of free anarchist radio stations in support of Mónica and Francisco, said that the trial because of its magnitude could last until September and that as a defense they are trying “to see the different legal aspects that will allow us to have the lowest possible sentences in relation to this attack by the state, this revenge.” The lawyer also referred to the pressure exerted by the media: “Mega has already launched a totally biased service, where they try to criminalize the actions of our comrades. We are facing this situation permanently,” he explained. Continue reading “Chile: Trial against Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero for the actions of the ‘Cómplices Sediciosos – Fracción por la Venganza’ and the ‘Afinidades Armadas en Revuelta’: updates on the July 18-20 hearings and continuation of the trial” →

Thessaloniki, Greece: Solidarity Posters for Comrades in Chile – Squat Nadir

Posted on 2023/07/20 - 2023/07/20 by darknights

These are the new posters from anarchist squat Nadir about comrades in Chile:

1. Francisco Solar Domínguez and Monica Caballero Sepulveda
https://anarxiko-steki-nadir.org/?p=2121
https://anarxiko-steki-nadir.org/en/?p=2121/

2. Lucas and Aldo Hernández Valdés
https://anarxiko-steki-nadir.org/?p=2116
https://anarxiko-steki-nadir.org/en/?p=2116/

Keep strong

$hile: Words by compañero Lucas Hernández. 6 months after the arrests for the Gendarmerie Case

Posted on 2023/07/13 - 2023/07/13 by darknights

Words by compañero Lucas Hernández. Six months after the arrests for the Gendarmerie Case.

“For me there was no opposite to freedom but death. I did not conceive the term prison or jail as anything other than a synonym for death…” Juan José Garfia

Months go by without much novelty, inserted in this redoubt of the underworld, which silences and hides. It is difficult to understand that your mobility is guarded and limited at every moment. It is easy to nourish myself with hate. If my eyes see daily officials, abuses, bars and uniforms in this implanted and repugnant routine, which overwhelms and suffocates.

But that does not paralyze or torment. Neither their punishments nor their decorated uniforms make me doubt my ideas and position in the face of this system of domination. In this process I have had the good fortune to live and experience political imprisonment with various comrades. Supporting each other, but we will not always be together, nor close, nor prisoners. Anti-prison solidarity has brought us together.

Captivity can suffocate, exhaust, but never defeat me… this prison process has reaffirmed how little I believe in. A joyful disappointment in those I once called brothers and sisters… today there are few I still love.

Any kind of pretensions I always wanted them aside, protagonists towards their spectacles. I am just a stealthy anarchist, brother to my siblings, and an avowed enemy of this or any state. Continue reading “$hile: Words by compañero Lucas Hernández. 6 months after the arrests for the Gendarmerie Case” →

Spain: Anarchist comrade Gabriel Pombo da Silva, on the street!

Posted on 2023/07/11 - 2023/07/13 by darknights

We are happy to know and report that the anarchist comrade Gabriel Pombo da Silva was released from prison a few hours ago.

The struggle continues!

Genoa, Italy: First-degree sentence of the Diamante trial

Posted on 2023/07/06 by darknights

First-degree sentence of the Diamante trial (Genoa, Italy, July 5, 2023)

The first-degree sentence of the Diamante trial against anarchist comrades Evelin and Gianluca (arrested on March 16th, 2022) was read out today, July 5th, at the Genoa court. Evelin was acquitted of all accusations and Gianluca was convicted to 4 years and 6 months of prison (plus a fine of 15,000 euro) for ‘illegal possession of explosives’ (art. 1 and 2 of law 895/67) and ‘attempted crime’ (art. 56 c. p., Italian criminal code), while he was acquitted of the accusation of ‘manufacture or possession of explosive materials with the purpose of endangering public safety’ (art. 435 c. p.). The comrades were not tried under the ‘aggravating circumstance of the purpose of terrorism or subversion of the democratic order’ (in relation to art. 270 bis 1 c. p.) because for this aggravating circumstance, present during the investigation phase, there had been no indictment for trial. The prosecutor’s requests had been for 5 years and 6 months (plus a fine of 15,000 euro) for Evelin and 9 years and 6 months (plus 30,000 euro) for Gianluca. We recall that the latter is still under house arrest with all restrictions (prohibition of meetings with persons other than close family members, prohibition of communication and exit permits, etc.). Solidarity!

Italy: Solidarity presence at the sentencing hearing of the Diamante trial. Solidarity with Gianluca and Evelin! (Genoa, July 5, 2023)

Posted on 2023/07/04 by darknights

On July 5th, the court of Genoa will hold the hearing for the sentence in the trial against anarchists Gianluca and Evelin, who were arrested on March 16th, 2022, within the Diamante investigation and charged with fabrication and possession of explosive and explosive material. During the hearings on June 7th and 8th, the prosecutor requested a sentence of 9 years and 6 months (plus a fine of 30,000 euros) for Gianluca and 5 years and 6 months (plus 15,000 euros) for Evelin. We recall that Gianluca — who is also under investigation in the Sibilla proceeding against the anarchist paper ‘Vetriolo’ — is still under house arrest with all the restrictions for the Diamante trial (the comrades were transferred to house arrest after a period of imprisonment in Rome’s Rebibbia prison), while Evelin was released in April 2022 following the re-examination hearing on the precautionary measures.

Along with the poster for the solidarity presence of July 5th, we also enclose some texts (in Italian) concerning the investigation and trial: “Ci troverete al nostro posto, che al vostro non ci sappiamo stare. A proposito dell’inchiesta Diamante” (‘You will find us in our place, we don’t know how to be in yours. About the Diamante investigation’, May 2022) [PDF], “Breve resoconto dell’udienza preliminare del processo di Genova contro Gianluca ed Evelin” (‘Short account of the preliminary hearing of the Genoa trial against Gianluca and Evelin’, December 2022) [PDF] and “Aggiornamenti sul processo di Genova a Gianluca ed Evelin” (‘Update on the Genoa trial against Gianluca and Evelin’, April 2023) [PDF].

SOLIDARITY PRESENCE AT THE SENTENCING HEARING OF THE DIAMANTE TRIAL

On July 5th, the first-degree verdict of the ‘Diamante’ trial involving anarchist comrades Evelin and Gianluca as defendants will be handed down at the Genoa court. We will be there for a warm greeting to them and to renew our hatred against the State and the judiciary.

Revolutionary and complicit solidarity with Gianluca and Evelin. For anarchy!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5th, 2023, 9 A.M., IN FRONT OF THE COURT OF GENOA.

Source: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/04/solidarity-presence-at-the-sentencing-hearing-of-the-diamante-trial-solidarity-with-gianluca-and-evelin-genoa-italy-july-5-2023/]

Italy: Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino were sentenced to 23 years and to 17 years and 9 months

Posted on 2023/07/04 by darknights

While waiting for a more detailed text about the hearing, we inform that on June 26th, the Turin court of assizes of appeal established the extent of the convictions against anarchists Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito in the Scripta Manent trial, sentencing them to 17 years and 9 months and 23 years respectively. Therefore, the possibility of a life sentence for Alfredo (and 27 years and 1 month for Anna), requested by the Turin public prosecutor’s office during the appeal hearing of December 5th, 2022, and later on June 19th and 26th, was definitively ruled out.

We remind that during the Scripta Manent trial — in addition to accusations of subversive association with the purpose of terrorism and subversion of the democratic order, attack with terrorist purposes, incitement to commit crimes aggravated by the purpose of terrorism, etc. — several accusations and convictions for massacre followed against Anna and Alfredo, first for the action in the bourgeois district of Crocetta (Turin, 2007) and later for the action against Caserma Allievi Carabinieri (Cadets of Carabinieri Barracks, Fossano, 2006). With the requalification by the court of cassation (July 6th, 2022) of the conviction for massacre against public safety (art. 422 of the Italian penal code) into massacre against State security (art. 285 of the penal code), the comrade risked a life sentence due to the prevalence of repeated recidivism over mitigating circumstances. The legislation that established the mandatory life sentence was subsequently amended by the constitutional court with the hearing on April 18th: not a “victory” for the rule of law or a “return” to the principles of the constitution, but a result achieved by the hunger strike against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole and the international solidarity movement that developed between May 2022 and April 2023.

DEATH TO THE STATE AND CAPITAL! SOLIDARITY WITH ANNA BENIAMINO, ALFREDO COSPITO AND ALL IMPRISONED ANARCHISTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES!

[Translated into english and published by https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/02/alfredo-cospito-and-anna-beniamino-were-sentenced-to-23-years-and-17-years-and-9-months-italy/ | Originally published in italian, on June 27th, at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/27/alfredo-cospito-e-anna-beniamino-sono-stati-condannati-a-23-anni-e-a-17-anni-e-9-mesi/]

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(IT) Alfredo Cospito e Anna Beniamino sono stati condannati a 23 anni e a 17 anni e 9 mesi
(EN) Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino were sentenced to 23 years and to 17 years and 9 months (Italy)
(FR) Alfredo Cospito et Anna Beniamino condamnés à 23 ans et à 17 ans et 9 mois (Italie)

Italy: Statements of Alfredo Cospito & Anna Beniamino at the hearing on June 19, 2023 at the Turin Court of Appeals

Posted on 2023/06/25 by darknights

We are circulating Alfredo Cospito’s statement at the June 19 hearing in the court of appeals in Turin on the calculation of sentences against Alfredo himself and Anna Beniamino as part of the Scripta Manent trial. The comrade was connected via video-conference from the Bancali prison in Sassari (as known, the regulations do not require in-person presence). Replications and sentencing against the comrades are postponed to a later hearing scheduled for Monday, June 26, at 12 noon, also at the Turin court.

Alfredo Cospito: Statement at the June 19, 2023 hearing at the Turin Court of Appeal

This statement of mine is closely related to the trial because it goes into the merits of the sanctioning treatment you imposed on me. Sanctioning treatment that is unconstitutional and contradicts your own laws. Sanctioning treatment, 41 bis, that distorts the very meaning of my imprisonment, imposing on me a senseless censure that limits my right to defense.

It is obvious to all how my trial affair has been used as a sort of cudgel by one political party, “the government,” against another political party, the so-called “opposition.” My last-minute transfer from one section to another in anticipation of the arrival of PD parliamentarians is a striking example. Which shows how the DAP and 41 bis have been exploited for political purposes.

These facts are closely related to this trial because they are the product of past political dynamics that led to our disproportionate prosecution and conviction for political slaughter. To shut my mouth now, at the only time I can defend myself would mean endorsing this dangerous and totalitarian drift. Before talking about Fossano and the so-called “massacre” (although there is little to say, it would be enough to look at the images of the damage of the tremendous explosion) for just two minutes I will have to mention three deaths, two of which I am somehow responsible for, the third death that of Cosimo occurred at the clinical center of Opera, ward 41 bis. Continue reading “Italy: Statements of Alfredo Cospito & Anna Beniamino at the hearing on June 19, 2023 at the Turin Court of Appeals” →