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Berlin, Germany: Construction machine of the company Hentschke Bau GmbH set on fire

Posted on 2023/05/05 by darknights

On Tuesday night, we placed incendiary devices at a construction machine of the company Hentschke Bau GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof. Already a few years ago, comrades claimed responsibility for several attacks on the infrastructure of this company, which is also responsible for the construction of the prison in Zwickau. (https://chronik.blackblogs.org/?p=10502) The company was also brought into focus because its owner Jörg Drews is affiliated with the fascist party AfD.

The ruling ideology says that it is necessary to keep people in constant fear so that they do not resist patriarchal and colonial oppression and docilely join the capitalist routine so that they can ultimately be shaped and standardized. All the more encouraging are the signs of those who, even in the moment of almost total isolation, confront fear and do not fall silent in their struggle for a world of solidarity, mutual aid and self-organization. As we take it from the words of the Italian prisoner Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for over 6 months since last October to fight against the 41bis regime imposed on him:

“I simply cannot live under an inhumane regime as 41bis means, where I cannot freely read what I want, books, newspapers, anarchist magazines, magazines of art and science as well as literature and history. The only way to escape the regime is to give up my identity as an anarchist and sell it to someone else to take my place. A regime in which I cannot have human contact, in which I cannot pick a handful of herbs or hug a loved one. A regime in which the photos of our parents are stolen. Buried alive in a tomb, in a place of death. I will continue my struggle to the extreme, not because of an “accusation,” but because this is not life.”

Although the hunger strike has ended and we are happy to know Alfredo is alive, this does not mean that we will stop fighting against the prison society. On the contrary, his struggle for dignity, as well as the numerous attacks in which comrades themselves risked their freedom, wrote words of solidarity and in this way connected with each other worldwide, have inspired us. With the strength unleashed by the hunger strike, we continue on the path of attacking all that the world of incarceration and punishment embodies. Continue reading “Berlin, Germany: Construction machine of the company Hentschke Bau GmbH set on fire” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, AfD, Aldershof, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anti-Fascism, Antifa Ost, Berlin, Colonialization, Dresden, Germany, Giorgia Meloni, Heavy Machinery Arson, Hentschke Bau GmbH, Hunger Strike, Incendiary Attack, International Solidarity, Italy, Jörg Drews, Lina, Neo-Nazis, Patriarchy, Prison Construction, Prison Profiteer, Social War, Zwickau prison construction

Canada: What we know so far about Montreal’s proposed new women’s prison

Posted on 2023/03/18 - 2023/03/18 by darknights

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

Quebec recently announced the construction of a new provincial women’s prison in Montreal, with work slated to begin this fall (2023). The new prison is intended to replace Maison Tanguay, which was closed in 2016. Since then, women have been imprisoned in Leclerc, which was initially a mixed-gender facility, in Laval. The provincial government’s plan is to demolish Tanguay in 2024, and to build the new prison between the old Tanguay site and the still operational Bordeaux prison, in Ahuntsic-Cartierville. The whole project is billed at $400 million.

We want to share some cursory research into the construction plans, in hopes that it will be helpful to anyone considering organizing against the construction of this prison in the coming months and years.

As it stands, construction will begin in fall 2023, with the new prison opening in summer 2029.

The prison will have 237 beds.

The approximate location of the prison is indicated on the map below:

DN Note: We do not encourage the use of Google Maps to do online research, we encourage the non use of online map apps, using instead good old physical maps along with scouting out a site is always more preferable but if really needed there is OpenStreetMaps and of course always with the use of Tails.

The following four contracts have already been awarded by la Société québécoise des infrastructures for work on the project. For each contract we have included a link to the contract details, but downloading associated documents requires an account.

1. Professional services in mechanical and electrical engineering

This contract was awarded to Groupe TT / BPA / ÉDFM, for a total of 7,285,762 $. Their mandate began on January 15th, and will likely end in April 2029.

Groupe TT – https://facebook.com/people/Groupe-TT-construction/100065212462242
BPA (bouthillette parizeau) – bpa.ca
ÉDFM – https://b2bhint.com/en/company/ca-qc/gestion-edfm-inc–1170270806

https://www.seao.ca/OpportunityPublication/avisconsultes.aspx?ItemId=0eae49b7-e977-4ed8-aa8c-30cf4954af56

https://www.seao.ca/OpportunityPublication/avisconsultes.aspx?ItemId=4a1afcfc-33f5-44a6-96f4-a2aa678f5a55

Continue reading “Canada: What we know so far about Montreal’s proposed new women’s prison” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Bordeaux prison, BPA (bouthillette parizeau), Canada, CIMA+, ÉDFM, Groupe TT, Maison Tanguay prison, Montreal, NEUF architectes en consortium, Parizeau Pawulski Architects, Pelletier de fontenay, Prison Construction, Quebec, SDK, Société québécoise des infrastructures, Vertima Inc

Mülheim, Germany: Lützerath is Everywhere! Strabag Vehicle Torched

Posted on 2023/01/24 by darknights

The Strabag construction group runs a dirty business: highway and jail construction. In addition, the company cooperates intensively with the energy company RWE on the opencast mines in the Rhenish lignite mining area, also directly near Lützerath. Now we have joined the action campaign against Strabag and continue the fight against the mining of the extremely climate-damaging lignite in a decentralized way! Lützerath is everywhere and wherever we are, our resistance can unfold in many ways!

The small hamlet of Lützerath has made it to worldwide fame after its occupation, although this place had been doomed for a long time. The fight against the eviction and the brutally enforced capital interests of RWE, Strabag and Co. was magnificent, although the destruction of the place could not be prevented. Lützerath is currently the symbol of resistance against the deadly energy policy of the government at the federal level and in NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia). Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, have made it clear that something has to change fundamentally and that the state and its police do not bring justice, but rather help capital achieve its objectives in the most brutal way.

Lützerath is lost, but the battle can now be fought with renewed fires! In any place!

With our small contribution and very simple means, we see ourselves as part of an alliance with all forms of struggle of the anti-capitalist climate movement. Demonstrations, sit-ins, discussions, attacks, gluing, sabotage, lock-ons, occupations and tunnels – anything that helps in our counterattack for the good of all life!

Much love to all the injured and the prisoners.

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/252737

Via: Abolition Media & translated by Nae Midion

Posted in Direct Action, Eco StruggleTagged arson attack, Lignite Mining, Lützerath, NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia), Prison Construction, Prison Profiteer, RWE, Strabag, Vehicle Burning

France: Multiple direct actions across the country

Posted on 2022/10/15 - 2022/10/15 by darknights
Leftovers of the municipal police car

Thouars (Deux-Sèvres) : Municipal police targeted 10/10/2022 https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/13868

Municipal police targeted in Thouars

Courrier de l’ouest/La Nlle République (newspaper), 10 octobre 2022

It was 6.30am, this 10 october monday, in Thouars city hall backyard (department Deux Sèvres), when a maintenance worker heard crackin noises. And noticed someone escaping. In the night, he saw flames devouring a vehicle. Firepeople quickly intervene : 31 firepeople are engaged and a fire hose is used. The calcined corpse is the one of the second intervention vehicle from municipal police.

This monday morning, the staff of the town hall is appalled. Firepeople limited the spread of flames to the wood parts of a reprography office, located in an annex building of Thouars town hall. A computer has also been damaged and the office will be unusable for some times. Upper floor windows, which is the temporary local of the municipal police, are also heavily damaged. The investigation was taken by the national police.

Continue reading “France: Multiple direct actions across the country” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged arson attack, Blagnac, Cop Attack, Cop Vehicle Burning, Fiber Optics, France, Gers, Internet, Intervention, Long Live Vandalism!, Municipal Police, Muret, Prison Construction, Rail Sabotage, Railway Sabotage, Sabotage, SNCF, Telecommunication, Thouars, Toulouse, Villers-les-Pots

Santiago, Chile: Explosive attack against Belasco construction company in Las Condes + Claim by “Grupo de Acción 6 de Julio-Nueva Subversión”

Posted on 2022/07/11 by darknights

During the night of Tuesday, July 5, around 23:00hrs an anonymous cyclist was riding through the wealthy streets of Las Condes to stop at the intersection of Ebro and Encomenderos.

In the place is located the corporate building of the construction company Belasco, the anonymous cyclist manages to enter a small package through the fence to give towards the interior of the building. After a few minutes, the device explodes, causing damage to the facade, mainly to the pillar, the entrance gate and glass of the building.

The unknown silhouette manages to continue its course without any problem or being detected. The typical police personnel for these events arrive at the place: GOPE, LABOCAR, OS-9 in charge of the already traditional Fiscalia Sur, self-styled expert for these cases.

From the progressive government, the Minister of the Interior Izkia Siches said: “the investigations are in progress, I am aware of it and we hope that they will be able to give a quick account. These are facts that we obviously reject as a government and we hope they will not be repeated in our country”.

For his part, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, said: “We must not anticipate judgments, there are audiovisual images of the person who placed the explosive device, with respect to the company Besalco”. Continue reading “Santiago, Chile: Explosive attack against Belasco construction company in Las Condes + Claim by “Grupo de Acción 6 de Julio-Nueva Subversión”” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Belasco, Chile, Claudia López, Explosive Attack, Francisco Solar Domínguez, Georgia Voulgari, Giannis Michailidis, GOPE [Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales/Special Police Operations Group], Grupo de Acción 6 de Julio-Nueva Subversión, Jhony Cariqueo, Joaquin Garcia Chanks, Juan Aliste Vega, LABOCAR, Las Condes, Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda, Marcelo Villarroel Sepulveda, Mauricio Morales, Monica Caballero Sepulveda, OS-9, Pablo Marchant Gutiérrez, Prison Construction, Rancagua Prison, San Miguel prison, Santiago, Sebastian Oversluij, Sociedad de Concesiones de Chile, Sodexo, Thanos Xatziagkelou, Vinci

Dresden, Germany: Fire Set in Prison Construction Office

Posted on 2021/09/24 by darknights

Dresden, September 17, 2021

For some time now, militant resistance has been stirring against the ongoing construction of prisons in Zwickau. In the meantime, many companies involved in construction, planning or logistics have been affected. Particular attention was paid to the construction company Hentschke Bau, whose boss had also attracted negative attention through donations to the AfD. However, such a large project involves many participants and we do not want to be accused of forgetting anyone. So in the night from September 16 to 17, we dedicated ourselves with a few liters of gasoline to the engineering office Rathenow in the Albertstadt. We broke two windows and placed incendiary devices in the rooms. We hope that the fire disturbed the smooth running of further prison planning and that the company understands: Whoever earns money from the construction of prisons will have to bear the consequences! On the area we found additionally still another Bonzenschlitten, we set it without further ado on fire.

We see in jails a place of pointed mutilation, where people are (supposed to be) broken. The outcasts of society are locked away here to hide problems in living together. Instead of taking collective responsibility for these problems, it is left to the judiciary to decide who is allowed to live in the world outside the walls and who should only view the narrow perimeter of the prison through bars and fences. As anarchists we oppose state repression, we oppose the imprisonment of people, be it through analogous walls or the technological imprisonment in the open air prison. With the same determination, we stand with the prisoners. The struggle inside and outside the jails takes a wide variety of forms that complement each other. Some people stand in front of the prison on New Year’s Eve or write letters, others organize against the conditions and make known the deplorable conditions behind the walls, still others take care of the concrete support of the inmates. Now and then, some go out with the aim of calling the profiteers of exploitation and imprisonment to account. Continue reading “Dresden, Germany: Fire Set in Prison Construction Office” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged AfD, arson attack, Dresden, Germany, Hentschke Bau, Prison Construction
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