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Giessen, Germany: Incendiary attack upon Payment Card Coordination Centre

Posted on 2025/03/24 by darknights

On March 17th, we attacked the coordination center for the payment card in Hesse with incendiary devices. Several transporters, as well as the building on Lilienthalstraße (Gießen), were damaged in the process. We did not choose this state facility by chance. The Government Presidium (RP) Gießen is involved in deportations every day with their transports from the initial reception centers and coordinates these throughout Hesse. For the reasons already mentioned, the RP deserves every attack.

Furthermore, the premises of the RP Gießen serve as the “operational coordination center” for the payment card introduced for refugees in the fall of last year. Basically, this means that the RP is responsible for the introduction and implementation of the payment cards in the initial reception centers and serves as the point of contact for all accommodations in the state of Hesse. The payment card is another insidious endeavor in which the German state demonstrates its racist and inhumane practices. Surely we should all be aware that the payment card is an attack on all the people who seek refuge and safety here, and it is just another step in the isolation of Europe.

Not only the state’s racist practice ignited our anger and hatred, but also the fact that this is another step by an authoritarian state to practice surveillance and control. As a society, we should assume that the payment card for refugees is a pilot project testing the extent to which handling payment cards will generally be suitable in the future. It is to be assumed that at some point there will also be payment cards for, for example, social benefit recipients. Because the German state loves to kick downwards and take from the poor and already stigmatized.

In solidarity with all those who evade their deportation and develop a collective practice against the authorities.

We greet the anarchist comrades in Bavaria, who are currently being persecuted by the state for their uncompromising political stance.

We send our solidarity and hope to all those affected by racist policies with our action. Another world is possible, let’s fight for it together.

Happiness and strength to all the comrades in hiding and blazing hatred against the walls that keep our friends and comrades imprisoned.

Source: de.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Arson Attacks in Memory of Anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris

Posted on 2025/02/07 - 2025/02/07 by darknights

Forward, everyone!
Both with arms and with heart,
word and pen,
knife and gun,
irony and blasphemy,
theft, poisoning and arson,
let us wage… war on society!

~Josheph Dejacque (1821-1864), libertarian anarcho-communist

In a world of constant impoverishment, class inequalities, oppression and exploitation, social fascism advances through the dictates of the state apparatus, capital and its mouthpieces, leaving room for more and more impoverishment and repression. The reformist compromises of the once more radical sections of society, together with stupidification, selfish individualism and worship of oppressors, make it no longer able to conceive of conflict with all of the above.

Our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and anarchist comrade Marianna M. are an example of selflessness, revolutionary ethos and political commitment in all aspects of the struggle. From anarchist assemblies, to solidarity with prisoners, to struggles in defense of immigrants, labor gains, to the struggle against gentrification and repression, our comrades gave “body and soul” keeping the flame of the revolutionary cause always alight. The events of October 31st froze our hearts but at the same time convinced us to continue the struggle of Kyriakos and Marianna and so many other comrades over the years who gave their lives or were imprisoned in the battle for individual and social liberation, revolution and anarchy.

In the aftermath of the October 31st accident, we watched the media snitches try to portray the struggle of our comrades, to sell them as amoral bloodthirsty terrorists thirsting for the blood of innocent civilians, while at the same time selling death politics by showing videos from the destroyed apartment on Arcadia Street in order to increase viewership figures and satisfy their far-right audience. Naturally, a new cycle of persecution followed in the political and social circle of the comrades but also against people who had nothing to do with them.

In the intervening period, solidarity actions were carried out for the comrades accused of the Ampelokipoi case and for the memory of comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris worldwide. Marches, microphones, solidarity movements and direct action strikes from Greece to Chile and from Germany to Indonesia.

We know that the real terror is the constant abolition of labour gains, price increases in supermarkets and evictions of the lower social strata for the sake of the banks. Terrorism is the cover-up of state crime in Tempe, as well as trafficking rings in which a large part of the state and para-state apparatus participates (see the Greek police mafia case). Terrorism is the thousands of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean and the wars that push them to displacement, such as the genocidal war in Palestine.

For our part, we come to declare that the revolutionary-insurrectionary thread that connects generations and generations will not be broken. There will always be movements that challenge the monopoly of state and capital violence and return a percentage of it to those who carry it.

We assume responsibility for the following arson attacks between 18/12 and 28/12 on the following targets:

- - HEDNO van vehicle in Elliniko,
  - car dealership in Patisia,
  - police car in Holargos,
  - state SUV vehicle in Kypseli,
  - the study center of New Democracy MP G. Kallianos in Glyfada,
  - cop car in Zografou.

We call on comrades here and everywhere to raise the flame of direct action and insurrectionary prospects.

Kyriakos Xymitiris always present!

Solidarity with anarchist comrade Marianna M.

Immediate release of the anarchists Dimitra Z., Dimitris, Nikos Romanos and A.K.

Solidarity with comrade K.K. in pre-trial detention

Solidarity with former RAF member Daniela Klette in pre-trial detention and wanted former members Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub

night slalom / commando Kyriakos Xymitiris

Source: https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/athina-ellada-analipsi-eythynis-gia-empristikes-epitheseis-sti-mnimi-toy-anarchikoy-kyriakoy-xymitiri/

Via & translated by Abolition Media

Strasbourg/Cherbourg, France: Two examples of the widespread use of police drones

Posted on 2025/02/03 by darknights

Drones, the new Swiss army knives of the border police
La Presse de la Manche, January 11, 2025 (excerpt)

For the past year, drones have been used at the port of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin to monitor the restricted zone. This high-tech equipment is now being used for other missions.

For just over a year, the Prefect of the Manche department has authorized the use of drones to monitor the border zone of the port of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the restricted access zone (ZAR) and its immediate surroundings. This is where migrants are accustomed to moving around. The drones can be adjusted to suit the weather conditions, providing high-quality images and precise positioning.

“They can fly at a maximum altitude of 120 meters, in complete silence. This means they can access places that were previously inaccessible by car, such as the rock face near the Mielles area, which is a common hiding place for migrants”, explains Chief Brigadier Anthony, a remote pilot based in Cherbourg. The thermal cameras fitted to their drones also help them to discover where migrants are hiding, particularly at night. Continue reading “Strasbourg/Cherbourg, France: Two examples of the widespread use of police drones” →

Berlin, Germany: Claim of Responsibility for the Incendiary Attack Against a Greek Diplomatic Vehicle

Posted on 2024/02/07 by darknights

On January 30, we placed an incendiary device under a car with the number plate of Greece’s diplomatic mission in Germany. The action took place in the Rosenthaler district in Berlin.

The action is not directed against a specific person but against the relations between two racist and murderous states and those responsible for them. The burning diplomatic car is once again a vehicle for international messages between the oppressed and at the same time a message to those who want to rule the world…

..that we have not forgotten the hundreds of murders committed last June off the coast of Pylos at the hands of the Greek coastguard and Frontex.

…that we have not forgotten the racist, murderous acts of violence by the police against Roma youth in Greece.

…that we do not remain inactive in the face of the persecution of anarchists and individuals fighting against oppression and exploitation.

In 2024, at a time when indifference in the face of daily mass murders is far advanced, we anarchists continue to reach out to migrants. We want to remind them once again that mass migration has its origins in the system and that those who try to control it are the same ones who live off our labour and resources. The thousands of murders at the borders are murders of our brothers and sisters. The victims of the coming pogroms and assassinations in this increasingly openly racist European Union live among us and stand side by side with us.

In memory of Oury Jalloh, who was tied up and set on fire alive with broken bones in a police cell on January 7, 19 years ago.

Signed: Anarchists

PS: For the immediate release of Nikos Maziotis and solidarity with Pola Roupa!

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/338369

Via & translated by Abolition Media

Germany: Code Name Jenny / Deckname Jenny

Posted on 2023/08/04 - 2023/08/04 by darknights

“Code Name Jenny” is a highly topical political feature film. We are putting the film on the net for free. It is a gift for all people who like political films. And for all people who fight for a better society.
“Code Name Jenny” was made by independent filmmakers at the self-governing Berlin film school “filmarche”. The film music was made by the wonderful band: “Guts Pie Earshot” and “Nomi & Aino”.

A film that was not interfered with by any production. It was made by critical filmmakers and activists, without money. Filmed at resistant locations in the city of Berlin, where no other camera can get to.
Spread the link to the film. Do screenings. Don’t pay money for screenings or only a contribution to political projects. Discuss the film. Invite us if you want political discussions or want to know how such a film can be made as a no budget film. If you have money and want to support another film, please contact us (there is a good idea!).

A shift to the right in Europe. Drowned people in the Mediterranean. Fortress Europe is growing against refugees. The climate is breaking down. And the wars are getting closer.
Jenny’s gang is no longer watching. And acts. But when Jenny’s father finds out about their militant ambitions, he has to face his own past as a member of a German urban guerrilla group. And now things get tight for all involved…

A story between love and betrayal, hope and resignation, resistance and friendship.
Shot from an anarchist, feminist and queer angle, subversive and self-deprecating, but always lovingly partisan… and intergenerational. That’s it.

DECKNAME JENNY 108 min
German with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek

https://jenny.in-berlin.de/

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Barcelona, Catalonia: Responsibility claim for the incendiary attack on an Indra vehicle – EN/ES

Posted on 2023/07/30 by darknights

(07/25/2023) – From BCN IMC

Last Tuesday 25, at dawn, we attacked with our favorite materials: gasoline and fire, a van of the Indra company near the Vallcarca neighborhood. Indra, an arms manufacturer, constitutes the technical part of the development of the geopolitical and economic interests of states. Numerous contracts with the Ministry of Defense in Spain demonstrate their participation in military weapons projects, aside from being the company who controls 80% of the Sociedad Española de Misiles, the Spanish subsidiary of the main European missile manufacturer. Today, the military industry has adopted a new image that moves away from that of the military giving a coup to present another, the friendliest and smiling professional mercenaries who together with their suppliers respond to a social demand for security. When excuses such as terrorism are not enough to justify the augment of militarization, then the other great concerns of society become the necessary pretext for the military descent in the Metropolis. Thus, events such as the recent creation of the “Bibby Stockholm” prison-barge in the United Kingdom destined to continue repression towards migrants is not a coincidence.

The military complex finally ends up accompanying society in its decline with its gentle image, its technological surveillance systems and its sense of security for the citizenship, seeking to establish the deathly peace of the bosses and the legal owners with the support of the silent majority.

Given all this, we are left with the decision that our battlefield is that of denial and disobedience.
Through this action we would like to spread the fire in these conditions of continuous war against each symbol and face of the authoritarian society in which we have decided to fight.
We send our warm greetings to the companions Monica and Francisco, who are now facing a trial that will last months. The complicit words of fellow Francisco fill us with strength to continue exploring the paths of the anarchic conflict here and now.
Greetings also for Alfredo Cospito who is recovering after 6 months on hunger strike.

For insurrection, attack and revenge!

Some danger0us individuals

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Para lxs que provocan incendios y otrxs individuxs afines: Reivindicación del ataque incendiario a una furgoneta de Indra (25/07/2023)

El pasado martes 25, de madrugada, atacamos con nuestros materiales favoritos: gasolina y fuego, una furgoneta de la empresa Indra cerca del barrio de Vallcarca.
Indra, empresa fabricante armamentista constituye la parte técnica del desarollo de los intereses geopolíticos y económicos de los estados.
Numerosos contratos con el ministerio de defensa de España demuestran su participación en proyectos de armamento militar a parte de ser quien controla el 80% de la Sociedad Española de Misiles, la filial española del principal fabricante de misiles europeo.
Hoy en día, la industria militar ha adoptado una nueva imagen que se aleja de aquella de los militares dando un golpe de estado para tomar otra mas amable de amigables y sonrientes mercenarios profesionales que junto a sus proveedores dan respuesta a una demanda social de seguridad.
Cuando excusas como el terrorismo no son suficientes para justificar el augmento de la militarización, entonces las otras grandes preocupaciones de la sociedad se vuelven el pretexto necesario para el descenso militar en la metropolis. Asi pues, sucesos como la reciente creación del barco-prisión “Bibby Stockholm” en el Reino Unido destinado a continuar y augmentar la represión hacia las personas migrantes no es una casualidad.
El complejo militar pues, finalmente acaba acompañando a la sociedad en su decadencia con su gentil imagen, sus sistemas tecnologicos de vigilancia y su sentido de seguridad por parte de la ciudadania, buscando establecer la mortal paz de los jefes y los legales propietarios con el apoyo de las silenciosas mayorias.
Ante todo esto nosotrxs nos quedamos con aquellxs que deciden que su campo de batalla es el de la negación y la desobediencia.
Mediante esta acción nos gustaria esparcir el fuego en estas condiciones de guerra contínua contra cada símbolo y cara de la sociedad autoritaria en la que nosotrxs hemos decidido luchar.
Enviamos nuestros cálidos saludos a lxs compañerxs Mónica y Francisco, quienes se estan enfrentando ahora a un juicio que durara meses. Las palabras cómplices del compañero Francisco nos llenan de fuerza para continuar explorando los caminos del conflicto anárquico aquí y ahora.
Saludos también para Alfredo Cospito quien se encuentra recuperándose después de 6 meses en huelga de hambre.

POR LA INSURRECCIÓN, EL ATAQUE Y LA VENGANZA!

Algunxs individuxs peligrØsxs

British-run spy tech powers Ukraine proxy war

Posted on 2023/07/23 - 2023/07/23 by darknights

Reposted for anti-info reasons, be aware of any mainstream/corporate links:

Leaked files reveal the Anomaly 6 spy firm is providing intelligence to the British military through a cut-out involved in the Kerch Bridge bombing and other acts of dangerous sabotage in the Ukraine conflict.

On December 6th, The Grayzone revealed how British military and intelligence agencies were deploying technology created by shadowy private intelligence firm Anomaly 6 to illegally spy on citizens across the globe.

The company’s technology effectively transforms every individual on Earth into a potential target for surveillance and/or asset recruitment by monitoring the movements of their smartphone. Anomaly 6 embeds tracking software in popular applications, then slices through layers of theoretically anonymous data to uncover a wealth of sensitive information about a device’s owner.

Anomaly 6’s services are provided to Britain’s soldiers and spies through Prevail Partners, a private military company which The Grayzone has exposed as Whitehall’s arm’s-length cutout for prosecuting its proxy war in Ukraine. The firm has constructed a secret partisan terror army on Kiev’s behalf, and helped plan the Kerch Bridge bombing by Ukraine’s services.

Now, the Grayzone can reveal that Prevail is exploiting Anomaly 6 to provide “decision-enabling intelligence to the UK’s defence and security architecture.” Continue reading “British-run spy tech powers Ukraine proxy war” →

Italy: ‘To burning hearts’ Statement of the anarchists accused at the trial for Operation Renata

Posted on 2023/02/21 - 2023/02/21 by darknights

Four years after the repressive operation Renata on February 19, 2019, we publish – not for an aseptic “exhumation” of recent history, but because these are texts that address the profound social and individual reasons for the anarchists’ thought and action – the statement of the seven comrades accused during the first-degree trial (“To Burning Hearts”) and a second statement distributed during the appeal trial. In addition, we believe it is important and necessary to find and disseminate the statements of comrades who, during the trials, take the floor continuing to support the ideas and practices of attack against the state and capital.

To burning hearts

Statement of the anarchists accused at the trial for Operation Renata

The anarchist does not look to success, to victory, to competition. He fights, because it is right. And in any struggle loss is part of life. He does not change his mind because he loses, much less give up the next struggle. The System is self-feeding because of the people who do not fight, not because they are invincible. The anarchist’s job is to instill in the people revolt, not in segments but continuous. Like a wave that recedes and then returns. You ask me if we will win? You ask me the wrong question. Ask me if we will fight and I will answer yes.
Luigi Galleani

Today we decided to have our say on the “Renata” operation. In other writings, the investigation has been analyzed, both in its general repressive aspects of the state and with regard to the technological, inquisitorial and legal tools used to hit those who still dare to fight for something different and still blow on the wings of freedom.

We have decided not to turn to the court that will try us nor to the diligence of our repressors. A courtroom is not the place where we choose to speak today.

We want to speak in those places where there is struggle, where there is still critical spirit, wherever there are women and men who are aware that so many things must be changed now, that this state of affairs must be revolutionized.

So we are going to talk about the actions that we are accused of or that are included in the investigation.

These actions-night or day, individual or collective-are part of a conflict that goes far beyond the specific facts or the territory in which they are located. They are the result of a broader clash, that between the exploited, the exploiters and those who defend them.

Of these actions we share the spirit, the ethics, the method, the goals, regardless of who carried them out. They speak for themselves, they are understandable to most, they point to a path – that of liberation. They point the finger at those who live by exploitation and war, hatred and violence, they wish for something more, something that will put an end to the worst atrocities and barbarities, but above all they aim to destroy the wall of resignation, in times so poor in human solidarity, rebellion, critical thinking.

Those who in recent years have said and still say that such actions serve no purpose, that the game is not worth the candle, that nothing will change, that human beings have permanently lost their wits by reducing life to a constant fratricidal war, have stopped dreaming, have stopped questioning those responsible for injustice and the causes that have brought society to a moral, environmental and material level that is disturbing to say the least. Continue reading “Italy: ‘To burning hearts’ Statement of the anarchists accused at the trial for Operation Renata” →

Greece: ‘To break the codes of repression’, Financial support for court expenses of comrade Kostas K. EN/GR

Posted on 2023/01/08 by darknights

Back in the distant 2007, at a time of underlying and subtle social processes that would culminate in the December 2008 uprising, the authorities were looking after one of their favourite children. George Voulgarakis, a member of the deepest party-apparatus of New Democracy and Minister of Public Order, is caught up in the maelstrom of phone tapping scandals and ‘disappearances’ of Pakistani migrants and refugees. The state, however, always takes care of its children and Voulgarakis goes on “vacation”, away from the “hot potato” of the Ministry of Public Order, taking over the “loose” Ministry of Culture.

But some people do not forget and do not forgive. At 10:00am on July 3, 2007, a few hours after Voulgarakis and his police escort arrived at the ministry on Bouboulinas Street, they were attacked by a group of twenty comrades, with Molotov cocktails and a bag full of gasoline canisters and camping gas canisters, that fell into Voulgarakis’ own vehicle. The policemen open fire on the comrades, only thus managing to make them retreat.

In the text in which they claimed responsibility, they state:

“The attack on Culture Minister G. Voulgarakis was carried out as a sign of solidarity with the imprisoned militants. The Minister of Culture was chosen because a representative of the government is always a target of militants, let alone when he has served as Minister of Public Order and his term of office has remained unforgettable. He was the political head of the Ministry of Order when he intercepted and monitored the conversations of hundreds of citizens through vodafone. He was the political head of the Ministry of Order and responsible for the abduction and interrogation of dozens of Pakistani migrants. Finally, under the orders of Voulgarakis and on the occasion of the robbery of the National Bank in January 2006, for which Yannis Dimitrakis is on trial on 6 July, the anti-authoritarian movement was subjected to one of the most furious assaults of recent years with pogroms, kidnappings, slander, smears and finally prosecutions of anarchists. Freedom to those imprisoned in the cells. Solidarity to all persecuted comrades. As for their shooting, deliberately at point blank range and not in the air, the cops had better be careful because such moves can be met with the same price.”
Continue reading “Greece: ‘To break the codes of repression’, Financial support for court expenses of comrade Kostas K. EN/GR” →

Hamburg, Germany: Solidarity attack against HERTZ. Claiming the incendiary attack on the HERTZ headquarters in the Wandsbek district, against the Hellenic police and the government of Nea Demokratia, in solidarity with the anarchists on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/12/12 by darknights

Hamburg: solidarity attack on HERTZ

The next racist murder attempt of the Greek cops, but also the ongoing hunger strike of the anarchists in Italy have motivated us to attack HERTZ as a supporter of the Greek cops and thus of the racist and neoliberal Nea-Demokratia regime.At the branch in Hamburg Wandsbek we set fire to the building.

Not only in Greece HERTZ offers favorable conditions for the uniformed executioners, but also for example in the USA.
Not only the shot in the back of the head of Costas Fragoulis in Thessaloniki is an expression of the racist violence that is the order of the day in Greece. There are daily pushbacks and assaults against people fleeing at the borders. In the camps and deportation jails, it becomes clear again and again what Europe’s closure against refugees means: brutal, inhuman violence that the Greek state and other European security agencies use without scruples.
At the same time, places of rebellion and migrant self-organization are repeatedly attacked in Greece: recently the Prosfygika Squat in Athens, but also many other squats and projects face constant attacks.

Solidarity with those detained in defense of Prosfygika!

Strength to the revolt of Roma and others who are rising up as a result of the shooting of Costas!

Combatative greetings to the hunger strikers in Italian prisons who fight against the solitary confinement system 41bis – freedom for Alfredo and all others!

Victory to the revolution in Iran!