Squatting – Dark Nights

Paris, France: Fire involving a crane at the Baudrière construction site in Montreuil

Posted on 2025/10/26 by darknights

It was in lower Montreuil, in a seemingly quiet neighborhood, that an inexplicable and unexpected tragedy occurred during the night of Wednesday, October 22 to Thursday, October 23. Passersby noticed a sudden glow: the cab of a crane was on fire, causing chaos and widespread panic.

The firefighters were slow to arrive. This gave the fire time to cause considerable, irreversible, and unspeakable damage. Although relatively invisible from the street except for the blackened windows of the cabin, the significant impact of this fire was revealed to us by a source close to the investigation. The cabin, burned out from the inside, is now completely unusable.

The vehicle in question was located on the Imava construction site at 65 bis rue Voltaire, the real estate developer that evicted the squat known as La Baudrière in August 2022. This construction site is currently at a standstill.

Shortly afterwards, we received a text containing an interview with an expert on the event in question. Will it shed light on this very dark affair? We sincerely hope so.

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Greece: 4th issue of the insurrectionary/nihilist anarchist newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame”

Posted on 2025/09/11 - 2025/09/11 by darknights

**Download link (PDF):** http://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/ENG-Blessed-Is-The-Flame-Issue-4.pdf

In early September, the 4th issue of the international anarcho-nihilist/insurrectionary newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame” has been published. As always, along whith the counter-information of July and August, we have also collected texts on counter-surveillance, counter-repression and direct action. The newspaper is available in both digital and printed form. If anyone is interested on printing it themselves, the best way is either to print it as simple A4 with a stapler, or as A3 in booklet format.

Note: for printing, we suggest you download the file directly from our website (https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/4o-teychos-tis-exegersiakis-anarchikis-efimeridas-eylogimeni-i-floga/) in case any minor corrections may be made and therefore the download link is renewed.

**CONTENTS**

Counter-information for July & August 2025
Challenges of police investigations into anarchist direct actions
A search for anarchist practices against torture
Useful information for anarchists of action from the investigation files of Operation Diana
Responsibility claim with guide for action [arson attack on machinery of Holcim, Switzerland]
Chile: Black August and solidarity actions for comrades Aldo and Lucas
Monica Caballero Sepulveda: “Political violence”
Uprising in Indonesia and calls of solidarity and support
The authoritarian trap of identity logic
Greece: Summer news about the “Synergy of Vengeance” case
Squat evacuations
About persecuted comrades from USA
Update and call for solidarity assembly for Alfredo Cospito
Message to the climate movement
Why are we being led to our slaughter? We don’t

*Note: Some of the news and responsibility claims for July and August were published after the completion of this issue. All of this will be posted in the next few days on our website.* Continue reading “Greece: 4th issue of the insurrectionary/nihilist anarchist newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame”” →

Berlin, Germany: Update on the legal situation of Rigaer94 EN/DE

Posted on 2025/07/20 - 2025/07/20 by darknights

There hasn’t been a legal update by us in the past 10 months. Now a lot of stuff is happening again and we are not sure how this will all turn out. What we are sure about is that the enemies of the house are continuing their actions in order to destroy the house. We will not stop fighting them. Here is a brief overview of the legal status of the house right now and the changes which have been going on.

What is the current situation?

Since most of the remaining rent contracts were canceled last summer, the vast majority of the flats are right now without those rent contracts. There are just five rent contracts remaining in the whole house. It seems like our enemies are trying to get rid of the rent contracts bit by bit, in order to create a legal base for a complete eviction of the house.

Court cases that happened in the last months (or didn´t)

On September 4th 2024, there should have been an appeal about some of the rent contracts from 1992 in the back house and against the people who were added to these lawsuits, as a result of the raid in October 2021. Before that, the Amtsgericht dismissed those eviction lawsuits against the rent contracts. The court date was postponed because the so-called lawyer of Lafone, Bernau, sent some documents too late to the judges to include them. Since then there has been no new date scheduled for this.You can find a more detailed description here.
The lawyers of Lafone lodged a disciplinary complaint against judges of the 66th chamber of Landgericht II, accusing and suing the judges for allegedly delaying the trials. This disciplinary complaint was declined. We can only laugh at both our enemies fighting each other.
As we published last year, in three proceedings about two apartments in front house as well as one room in the attic of back house, the legitimacy of the letterbox company Lafone was not questioned by the judges anymore. The apartments in front house still did not get eviction orders, though for one of them a person is supposed to pay their alleged ‘rent debts’, about 20.000€. For the room in the attic on the other side, the judges actually seem willing to issue an eviction order. Since we published this information, all those decisions were confirmed by the Kammergericht – therefore, the highest court in Berlin now seems to accept the legitimacy of this letter box company.

Leonid Medved is the “Owner” of Lafone

Part of this change is also that Leonid Medved is now officially listed as owner of Lafone (and therefore R94) on Companys House. He is described as an “individual person with significant control”. It is said that he directly or indirectly holds 75% or more of the shares in the company. (PDF) Medved became registrable as shareholder on 06/04/2016, but the entry note was just published on 25/04/2025. With this first listing in an official document of the company we now have proof of what we have known for a long time.

Info on upcoming eviction court cases

There are a lot of trials regarding our house coming up in September. Besides attempting to get eviction titles for the squatted flats and those who had rent contracts since 1992, Lafone is trying to get rid of the remaining renters of front house by cancelling their rent contracts.

On 17th of September, all of the rented flats of front house will have appeal hearings. The first lawsuits that attempted to cancel those rent contracts were rejected years ago. Aditionally, some of the trials against people who were added to the lawsuits following the raid in October 2021 will happen that day in the same court room. These hearings will happen at Landgericht II.

Also on 17.9., there will be a court case against the Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle. The last eviction lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle was rejected by the Kammergericht. Bernaus appeal against that was declined by the federal supreme court (BGH) in November 2023. In the end of last year, Bernau filed another eviction lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle, starting from scratch.

For all the court cases all the affected parties have to come. That means the accused, but also Lisa Close, the director of Lafone Investments, will be there. Let’s give her a proper welcome!

Call for participation in the court cases

We call for participation in solidarity at the upcoming court cases. The courtcases will be public (bring ID if you want to go inside).

(Wednesday) 10.09.2025 at 13.00. Littenstr 12-17 room 3705 (3rd floor). Lawsuit against the last existing rent contract in backhouse.

(Wednesday) 17.09.2025 at 10.30. Tegeler weg 17-21. room 148 (1st floor). Lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle.

(Wednesday) 17.09.2025 at 13.00. Littenstr 12-17 room 3705(3rd floor). Lawsuit against the rented flats in front house and some other eviction lawsuits.

For more context read our last two texts “Rigaer94: Sommergewitter in meinem Block – “thunder storms on my block” and “Rigaer94: Return of the Phoenicurus. News from a letterbox“

More infos will follow soon.

Rigaer 94 stays!

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Athens, Greece: Beneath the concrete, something is burning. Statement regarding the occupation of a building and creation of Rasprava Squat

Posted on 2025/04/19 - 2025/04/20 by darknights

Following the end of the event “Revolutionary memory and perspective of the struggle” in Mesologgiou street, a crowd of comrades descended to Kolettis and Themistokleous streets to defend the liberation of the building.
The following is the self-introductory communique of the occupation:

The silence of the metropolis weighs like a stone on our shoulders. The streets are filled with worn-out stares, bodies crawling out of habit, out of fear, out of submission. The world moves along predetermined paths, without a second thought, tempering its dreams. Everything is programmed to work exactly as they want: work, consumption, obedience. Yet, always, beneath the surface, something is boiling.
History is not written by the obedient. A few choose to bear the burden of disobedience. To crack the concrete of normality. To confront the invisible hand of power that chokes every aspect of our lives. Refusing to submit is not a mere stance. It is a call to question, to overturn, to take back everything that belongs to us.
We are comrades, anarchists who derive from different political and ideological backgrounds, but we have found ourselves in the very same fires of struggle. It is there, where our common struggles and collective experiences united us, that we recognized the vital need for the creation of a space for meeting, political maturation¹, exchange of views and organizational empowerment.
At a time when isolation is imposed and communities of struggle are being dismantled by repression, the formation of such spaces is not only necessary – it is crucial.
The repressive blows of recent years have not come by accident. The authorities are attempting to eliminate any focus of resistance, to crush any form of self-organisation and to extinguish the flame of contestation.
Great achievements have been lost, the movement has been put on the defensive, the recession is now on the horizon. But we know that history is written by those who do not fall back, by those who are not afraid to confront reality.
To remain on the defensive is to accept defeat. And that is not going to happen.
The time is now to turn words into action, to move from defense to attack.
So let’s make it clear that the enemy will not get rid of us so easily.
We must define our own field of struggle, reclaim our space and time.
To liberate territories from domination, to create a vibrant centre of resistance, a radical cell for mobilisation² both in theory and action.
We perceive the occupation as an integral part of the movement and the movement as an organic element of the occupation.
The existence of territories of struggle is not just a practical question, but a deeply political one.
Squats are not just places to hang out, they are not just places of hospitality.
They are strongholds of resistance, laboratories of radical practices, cracks in the normality they try to impose on us.
And this is a non-negotiable reality.
Every neighbourhood, every street, every square is not a neutral ground. It is a vibrant map of oppositions, conflicts and claims. Cities are built on the basis of discipline, policing and the sterilization of public space. Squares are filled with surveillance cameras, walls are painted grey, buildings become inaccessible bastions for those who cannot afford to pay the price of existence in a world where everything has a tag price.
Dominance is implementing a strategic plan of universal control of the metropolises, crushing any source of resistance.
Armed with black propaganda and ideological warfare, it attempts to shape consciousness, while the deliberate degradation of neighbourhoods through the spread of organised crime and the violent expulsion of the local population is paving the way for its complete absorption by capital. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Beneath the concrete, something is burning. Statement regarding the occupation of a building and creation of Rasprava Squat” →

Genoa, Italy: Ex Latteria Occupata under seizure

Posted on 2024/12/05 by darknights

On the night of December 2, the carabinieri, under the usual order of PM Giuseppe Longo, seized the Ex Latteria Occupata and reported three comrades.
Ex Latteria, like others, is a place that has always opposed the exploitative and repressive logic of the state at war. A place of gathering, frequented by many girls and boys.
After the arrests on May 4th, the prosecutor still wants to tell the tale of defending decorum, that is, the normalized, racist, and alienating everyday life at the expense of every individual’s freedom.
This latest attempt to stifle anger and dissent will not work, you will find us in the streets.

THURSDAY, December 5th from 6:30 PM at Stradone Sant’Agostino
FRIDAY, December 6th at 5 PM at Piazza San Donato

Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on the NTUA rectorate

Posted on 2024/11/21 - 2024/11/21 by darknights

Power means total denial of freedom. Imposition is the quintessential means used by those who decide to dominate. So we are talking about a world that was built on this fundamental aesthetic choice. This choice of the ruling class calls upon its servants to implement it. The rectorship of NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) is yet another cog in the machine, one of the threads in the institutional fabric of the state, whose ideological role is sterilization, increased productivity, and the creation of an “excellent” specialized worker who only raises their head when it comes to a better career choice. In short, the ideological role of the university in the neoliberal urban state is to present “governance of science” as the only way societies have to organize themselves. The means by which the university fulfills this role is the monopoly on knowledge, or rather the cultivation of the illusion that it indeed monopolizes knowledge.

In reality, the excellence of NTUA lies in master’s programs in collaboration with TERNA, research on military drones, a close collaboration with police for evictions and arrests, targeting, prosecutions, and the imposition of fines on students. The latest chronological reference point, and after failing to achieve their goal with the successive eviction operations in 2023-24, is the issuance of an ultimatum for all occupied spaces on 31/10/2024. The state and social cannibals rush to stifle any attempt to build an alternative to the prevailing social decay by evicting spaces and intensifying repression, thinking they are terrorizing us. But we do not bow our heads, because we know we are right. The early manifestations of this counter-proposal are the squats, and as long as you do not let us build our own reality, we will destroy yours. After all, the goal is not to build on the existing foundations, but on their ruins. However, destruction does not come on its own.

Fire has always been a weapon of society. So we take responsibility for the incendiary attack on the administration building of NTUA in Zografou, on Friday 08/11/2014.

HONOR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST FIGHTER KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS

SOLIDARITY WITH THE INJURED COMRADE MARIANNA M. AND

TO THE PERSECUTED COMRADES D.Z. AND D.

SOLIDARITY WITH COMRADE K.K. FOR THE CASE IN MESSOLONGHIOU

Incendiaries

Via: Blessed Is The Flame

Source: athens.indymedia

Komotini, Greece: Update from the Defence Actions of the Evicted Anarchist Steki Utopia A.D.

Posted on 2024/02/11 - 2024/02/11 by darknights

A few hours after today’s eviction of the Anarchist Steki Utopia A.D., an open assembly was held in which a large number of people in solidarity were informed about the situation.

As a first move, a reflexive march of 60 people poured into the city centre, with a strong pulse and slogans. It should be noted that although the guards of the university were ordered to call the cops, the presence of police forces was non-existent throughout the protests.

The march ended outside the evicted hangout, where the next steps were discussed. We believe that the eviction of the hangout is a continuation of the state attack on the occupied law school and the arrest of 18 students, 12 of which turned into arrests.

The main persons responsible for the repressive operations are the rector Fotis Maris and the dean of the law school, Michalis Chrysomallis. Neither of them, however, has so far taken responsibility for organizing the above-mentioned actions.

We, for our part, on the one hand, call on the rectorate, if it has a trace of dignity, to stop shifting its responsibilities elsewhere, on the other hand, we assure that we will not choose the path of silence and we warn that nothing will be left unanswered.

OCCUPATIONS ARE THORNS, TO TAKE THEM YOU WILL BLEED

Anarchist Steki Utopia A.D. (Occupation since 2003… And we continue)

Source: athens.indymedia

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Germany: Rigaer94 – Evictions kill DE/EN

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

###english below

Heute sind in Spandau Poster und Flyer aufgetaucht, die auf die Geschehnisse vor Ort, vom 24. Juli 2023 aufmerksam machen sollen. Der Text von den Postern und Flyern ist der Folgende, die Poster findet ihr im Anhang:

Was sich am Dienstag, den 24. Juli am Brunsbüttler Damm in Spandau ereignet hat, ist kein Einzelfall sondern einer der vielen Momente, in denen sich das kapitalistische System in seiner mörderischen Konsequenz offenbart. Ein System, in dem das Recht auf Eigentum höher gewertet und vom Staat geschützt wird als das Bedürfnis eines Menschen, ein Dach über dem Kopf zu haben.

Wir wissen kaum etwas über die tödlichen Umstände oder was seine Ideen, ja wer der 62-jährige Mieter war, der sich mit einer Schusswaffe gegen seine Zwangsräumung wehrte und während des darauf folgenden SEK-Einsatzes sich selbst erschossen zu haben scheint. Und was wir wissen, ist vorher durch die Hände von Medien und Bullen gegangen und nicht aus der direkten Kommunikation entstanden. Doch auch ohne diese Informationen, können wir die Systematik hinter diesen Momenten erkennen. Und zwar, dass während Wohnungsbauunternehmen und Privateigentümer:innen tausender von Wohnungen fette Profite einstreichen, in Berlin die Mietpreise explodieren, das Angebot an Mietwohnungen äußerst knapp ist und gegenwärtige Krisen und Inflation Mieter:innen in eine äußerst prekäre Situation treiben, in der das monatliche Geld kaum für die Deckung aller Kosten reicht.

Zwangsräumungen sind alltäglicher Ausdruck einer stetig wachsenden Schere zwischen Arm und Reich. 2021 fanden in Berlin – allein schon laut offiziellen Zahlen – um die 1.668 Zwangsräumungen statt. Das sind mehr als 4 pro Tag. Die Verantwortung dafür tragen Hauseigentümer:innen, Politiker:innen, Richter:innen und Bullen, denn sie alle stehen auf der Seite des Unrechts. Dass ihre Entscheidungen Konsequenzen für das Leben von Mieter:innen haben, sie in die Verzweiflung und aus ihren gewohnten Nachbarschaften heraus in die Isolation, in Wohnungslosigkeit und eine Armutsspirale treiben können, ist dabei bewusste doch als nebensächlich betrachtete Folge. Indem sie, mit der politischen Rückendeckung von Seiten des Staates und mit Hilfe loyaler Diener:innen (den Bullen), wachsende Profite zur Priorität machen, greifen sie die unterste Klasse an. Immer wieder enden Zwangsräumungen tödlich, so wie:

* am 03.08.2022 in Köln, als Bullen Lousef B. während seiner Zwangsräumung erschossen
* am 31.05.2021 in Berlin, als sich Peter H. vor seiner Zwangsräumung das Leben nahm
* am 11.04.2013 in Berlin, als Rosemarie F. zwei Tage nach ihrer Zwangsräumung in einer Kältehilfeeinrichtung verstarb Continue reading “Germany: Rigaer94 – Evictions kill DE/EN” →

Milan, Italy: Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014

Posted on 2023/07/06 by darknights

Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of the Corvaccio Squat and the Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014 in Milan

On Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, the anarchist occupations Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera – Occupied Anarchist Space, located on Via Ravenna in Milan’s Corvetto neighborhood, were being evicted with a huge number of trucks, cops, DIGOS, helicopters, and the like.

On July 3, 2023, the trial process for those resisting the eviction and the ensuing day of struggle that lasted well into the evening came to an end, with sentences of up to eight months.

Support the occupations, against all evictions: solidarity and resistance!

[Taken from the web and republished at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/05/sentenza-del-processo-per-gli-scontri-e-la-resistenza-allo-sgombero-del-corvaccio-squat-e-del-rosa-nera-il-18-novembre-2014-a-milano/]

To put the facts in context, below is a text published in November 2014:

Corvaccio resists, Corvetto ignites
Communiqué for the evictions of the Corvaccio squat and the Rosa Nera anarchist space

An abnormal awakening for Corvetto on Tuesday, November 18: in Via Ravenna instead of cappuccino and brioche, breakfast with tear gas and barricades.

It is 7 a.m. when the neighborhood, already alert and on the alert for the much heralded “eviction emergency,” notices the approach of a large number of pickup trucks. They head for Ravenna Street and close with vehicles and men two entire blocks with the clear intention of evicting Corvaccio and Rosa Nera. The former is an occupied house in which little less than a dozen rebels have lived for more than two years, while the latter an an anarchist space that for almost eight months has been hosting concerts and aperitifs in support of the prisoners, meetings, screenings and assemblies on various issues of struggle, and where at low speed a drumming class, a screen-printing workshop, a gymnasium and a documentation center are also coming to life.

The fierce press campaign, which for a week now in all newspapers nationwide has been painting those two spaces as the nerve centers of a phantom “black immovables,” turns out to be insubstantial in comparison to the relationships of trust and commonality, which day by day are growing among the neighborhood’s occupants, who are now accustomed to taking to the streets to resist the evictions together. Continue reading “Milan, Italy: Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014” →

Dirty Squatters: The Story of 2000 DS

Posted on 2023/06/24 by darknights

Life and death on the road with the most anarchic punk band to ever come out of the Welsh valleys.
Kickstarter

Watch video here of 2000 DS trailer

The Jackanory is going to be told

Fuck the law – Squat the lot