Bank Attack

Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary attack on a bank in solidarity with anarchists Thanos Chatziangelou & Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2023/01/19 by darknights

Because we’re the ones who hang out at night, conspire in our meetings and constantly think of ways to act. When we are hit, we have an obligation to make our presence felt, to show a signal of resistance, to give a breath of life to what we call solidarity.

We are hit in many ways, at work where the need to survive is exploited, on the street where a person may think a person is vulnerable and become abusive or an immigrant is dangerous and let out their racist rant, in the marches with the mats attacking, but we have shown that we have aggressive characteristics too and we will be confronted, in our social and political spaces where the power with the bullshitocracy thinks it will suppress us. But we will not let that happen.

We experience violence in various forms every day, we have learned to resist through our relationships, collectively and individually we are determined and we will win.

The road to anarchy is rough, if it doesn’t happen today, it will happen tomorrow, if you and I don’t see it, the next ones will see it, but we will not give up, that is the only certainty.

And when one is imprisoned, that is when one is confronted with power in all its glory, that is when the system thinks it has a victory to show its masters. But no. Because inside and outside the walls that separate us we continue to act. For each other, we are side by side, fighting to change what oppresses us, what we will no longer tolerate.

With all our strength, thought and patience, we never lose the appetite to come back, to challenge the existing that you have turned into a giant prison of fear and repression.

We have sharpened our blades to cut the chains you are passing through our bodies.

As a minimal sign of solidarity with imprisoned comrades on Thursday 29/12 at dawn we placed an incendiary device in a bank in Martiou Street in Thessaloniki.

STRENGTH AND GOOD RECOVERY TO THE ANARCHIST FIGHTER THANOS CHATZIANGELOU

SOLIDARITY TO THE ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER ALFREDO COSPITO. VICTORY IN HIS STRUGGLE

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Portland, USA: Bank of America set on fire

Posted on 2023/01/04 by darknights

Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish.

I attack for revenge against capital for the hell it creates, to break the illusion of police control that usually protects it, and just because I can.

Bank of America funds the Atlanta Police Foundation and a thousand other projects of control. Earlier that day, the six friends in Atlanta charged with “domestic terrorism” were released from jail. May this fire bring them some warmth in winter.

Long live anarchy!

Submitted anonymously over email

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Rome, Italy: Damage and fires in the Appio Latino neighborhood in solidarity with anarchist Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end

Posted on 2022/12/19 by darknights

We learn from the media that on December 18, in Rome’s Appio Latino neighborhood, shortly after midnight unknown persons damaged a number of banking facilities, including a post office-specifically, at least one postamat was set on fire and some glass windows were smashed-by spilling into the street and also setting fire to some garbage cans. According to media reports, the damage and fires occurred, very quickly, between Macedonia Street, Via Latina and Roselle Square. Murals were left on some of the buildings: “Alfredo libero,” “No 41 bis,” in reference to Alfredo Cospito, an imprisoned anarchist on an all-out hunger strike against the 41 bis prison regime (in which he has been imprisoned since May 5) and the hostile life sentence (which is likely to be the final sentence for the comrade at the end of the Scripta Manent trial, which has reached its last trial hearings).

The repressive forces, which arrived shortly after the events, were unable to stop anyone as the unknown persons had already left the area.

[Images are taken from regime media].

Source: La Nemesi

Perugia, Italy: Incendiary attack against some vehicles in front of Unicredit’s executive headquarters in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/12/02 by darknights

We learn from local media, from an article published on Dec. 2, of an attempted arson attack against some vehicles parked in front of Unicredit’s executive headquarters, including a corporate vehicle of the bank, in Perugia’s Madonna Alta neighborhood. According to reports, the vehicles were not seriously damaged. On some were found the inscriptions ” Fire to the prisons” and ” Out Alfredo from 41 bis,” in reference to the all-out hunger strike against the 41 bis prison regime and hostile life imprisonment undertaken by the anarchist Alfredo Cospito since Oct. 20. Currently, other than the writings found by the repressive forces, no claim or communication regarding the attack appears to have been released.

Source: La Nemesi

Trento, Italy: Smashed windows at Deutsche Bank branch in solidarity with Alfredo, Juan, Ivan and Anna

Posted on 2022/11/16 by darknights

On the night of Nov. 10-11, the windows of the Deutsche Bank branch in downtown Trento were smashed. They left the inscriptions “With Alfredo on hunger strike” and “Warmongers.” Alongside Alfredo, Juan, Ivan and Anna.

Daje!*

Source: Inferno Urbano

*DN Note: Slang for come on. can be used to tell someone to hurry up, to encourage someone, often used in sporting context.

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), France : Stop paying, make pay !

Posted on 2022/10/12 by darknights

Originally published : 24/09/2022

Source: lille.indymedia

On the night of the 23rd to the 24th september, in Toulouse, Frédéric Mistral alley, 2 LCL banks have been painted and attacked with hammer hits. Austerity, misery and inflation don’t fall from the sky.
Some take everything, and leave their crumbs. In echo to the calls to stop paying*, to burn our bills, to the 29th september demos** and those to come, let’s also take the night.

Against end of the month anguish, some hits in the face of the war profiteers.
Against the end of the world anguish, some hits in the face of those financing it.
We know it’s not mad, mad, mad to make bang, bang, bang on banks windows.
But when prices rise, windows fall, and it’s already something. Strike is coming, may it comes with fracas.

And a solidarity salute to Boris***

CCA (confédération des copaings d’avant)

*https://dontpay.uk
**Interprofessional strike and demo called by big french syndicate against inflation and pension reform
***https://bureburebure.info/solidarite-avec-boris/

Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for hammer attacks in solidarity with anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis

Posted on 2022/07/10 - 2022/07/10 by darknights

On Friday night, July 8th, we carried out a raid with hammers on the policed, touristic and “gentrified” centre of Thessaloniki on Tsimiski Street. We chose to attack a central store of the AB Vassilopoulos chain, which, apart from its constant stance on the implementation of the most neoliberal dictates in the labour regime of the chain’s branches, has taken the current intensity of the capitalist crisis as an opportunity to make a fortune at the expense of society by blowing up the prices of basic goods. We also attacked a branch of elpedison, which, respectively, is ensuring a rapid increase in its profits in the context of the current crisis, bringing poor households to their knees. Finally, we hit a Eurobank branch by breaking its ATMs.

This raid was carried out in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis. The comrade is on the 47th day of his hunger strike and while his health condition is getting worse day by day, the state and the judicial mechanisms continue to prolong his vindictive detention. The comrade has been entitled to be released from prison since December and yet every request for his release has been repeatedly rejected. Thus, while a state murder is in full swing, the establishment media are concealing both the struggle of G. Michailidis’ struggle and his just demands, as well as the movements of the solidarity movement, reinforcing the state’s death policy, paying off their political debts for the Petsas list*.

We are going through a period when dozens of people are committing suicide, unable to pay the electricity bill, unable to cope with the unbearable cost of living and meeting their basic needs, and the first homes of poor families are being auctioned off, those who are fighting to defend university asylum are beaten, migrants are murdered by the security forces at the borders, political prisoners barricade their own lives in order to claim their rights. At the same time, the state and capital demonstrate every day in the most violent way that they are not only indifferent to the social base, but that the bleeding of the social base, together with the repression of those who resist, are necessary conditions for ensuring their domination.

We therefore stand against the “preventive detention” of G. We stand against the G. Michailidis’s “preventive detention”, which demonstrates the real intentions of the state: the vengeful and exhausting treatment of those who struggle and at the same time the preventive terrorizing of those who will inevitably be radicalized in the face of the oppression of their lives by the state and the bosses. That is why we have to realize that the struggle of G. Michailidis’ struggle is a struggle of the whole society and we must show our solidarity by every means, from marches and rallies to occupations and attacks. Because the defense of political prisoners and their struggles should and can be another stone, a driving force in the direction of the struggle for the total overthrow of the capitalist system.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

IN THE FACE OF THE DETERIORATION OF THE COMRADE’S HEALTH WE WILL RESPOND WITH VIOLENCE AGAINST THE VIOLENCE OF CAPITAL AND STATE DEATH POLICY

WE SUPPORT THE NATIONWIDE SOLIDARITY MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMRADE, SATURDAY 9/7 – 18.00 IN LAMIA

Solidarians

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Note

* Petsas list, a corruption case involving a list of 1,232 media outlets that received moneyfrom the Greek state as part of the coronavirus public awareness campaign “We Stay Home”.

Minneapolis, USA: Attack on Bank of America in Solidarity With Arrested Forest Defenders

Posted on 2022/05/21 by darknights

We smashed up the windows of the Bank of America on Hennepin Ave in MPLS, and painted the front to read “DEFUND COP CITY.”

Our attack was in solidarity with those arrested in the recent raid on the forest, and we pray for the safe return of our comrades and a continuation of the fight for life against cop city and hollywood dystopia. Bank of America will need to end their sponsorship of the Atlanta Police Foundation or they will continue to be under threat from our friends across the so-called united states.

a toast to the nights we gave ’em hell.

FUCK COP CITY
FUCK HOLLYWOOD DYSTOPIA
FREE THE FOREST DEFENDERS
TRUST GOD, FUCK 12

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Minneapolis-Saint Paul, USA: Bank of America Attacked to Stop Cop City

Posted on 2022/03/31 - 2022/03/31 by darknights

January 31st, 2022

In solidarity with the 4 forest defenders arrested this week in the fight to #stopcopcity, autonomous vandals smashed the windows of Bank of America, one of the largest sponsors of the Atlanta Police Foundation. The building was also redecorated to read “STOP COP CITY”

Those wanting to support the fight can donate at atlsolidarityfund.org and get plugged in at defendtheatlantaforest.com

Free the brave, fuck the boys in blue.

Atlanta will remain a forest.

– Received Anonymously Over Email

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Philadelphia, USA: Banks Attacked in Solidarity with Atlanta Forest Defenders

Posted on 2022/03/29 by darknights

This month we sabotaged card slots of Wells Fargo and Bank Of America in Center City, Philadelphia. This attack was done in solidarity and complicity with those disrupting the construction of a police training grounds in Atlanta. Cops in Atlanta want to cut down a forest to build a mock city to practice squashing uprisings. In response, individuals are occupying, protesting, and sabotaging. People have started staying in the forest and fucking with the construction. The Atlanta Police Foundation is being funded by Wells Fargo and Bank Of America. We are excited to hear about construction workers being chased out and construction vehicles being messed up.

As proponents of self-directed revolt we decided to target the banks contributing to building the cop city. We hope that by communicating our action others feel encouraged or inspired to attack and disrupt the social order in their own context. While it would be preferable if the police project in Atlanta collapsed, for us destruction is an end in itself. We take pleasure in disrupting capital.

Our sabotage involved collecting plastic cards, which we cut into thirds. The purpose of this was to prevent the cards from easily being removed. Before going out we wiped down the pieces with gloves on and dressed anonymously. We inserted the pieces into atm and door card readers after putting a strip of super glue onto them. One benefit of this action is that it fucks up the machine without making a lot of noise or seeming out of place. We feel this is relevant to point out because the cop city is an example of the police preparing for mass unrest and we feel it is strategic to be able to act discreetly in light of increasing policing and surveillance.

Fuck cops
Fuck banks and money
Solidarity and complicity with the feral anarchists in Atlanta
Death to civilization
Long live anarchy
Chaos forever

– Received Anonymously Over Email

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest