During the night between Friday, November 22nd and Saturday, November 23rd, incendiary devices were planted in equipment at the Artificial Intelligence Campus construction site, adjacent to the existing Equinix data center. The construction site is located in the Vélizy-Meudon industrial zone, across from the construction site of the new Thales complex. Equinix customers include Thales, Dassault, Bouygues, Amazon, and many other companies operating in this neighborhood.
These companies are all part of the military-industrial complex that supplies weapons to Israel and is responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians. They all profit from colonial genocide, mass surveillance, and border control. The technologies they develop are tested on the Palestinian population and then sold to countries around the world at trade fairs such as Milipol, held in France from November 18th to 21st. Artificial intelligence is a key element of these technologies, which Israel uses to monitor and carry out genocide against the populations of Gaza and the West Bank. In addition to participating in colonial massacres internationally, France is militarizing its borders and strengthening surveillance and repression in colonized territories and neighborhoods. To try to put an end to all this, we have chosen the path of fire and sabotage.
We attack in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, whose fate the State of Israel seeks to exacerbate by legalizing executions, which are already the norm in its prisons.
We attack in solidarity with the “Prisoners for Palestine,” currently on hunger strike in British prisons for attacking the factories of the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit.[Hungerstrike ended at time of publication]
We attack in homage to the anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris and in solidarity with the imprisoned anarchists Marianna and Dimitra, as well as the other prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case. The flame of struggle will never be extinguished.
We attack in solidarity with those crossing borders and in homage to those who have lost their lives there.
We attack in homage to all those who have died in prison and for the freedom of all prisoners.