translated from soutien812.net (30th Nov.)
The judgment will be handed down. We invite all the people, groups and organizations who have shown their support over the past three years in the face of this anti-terrorist farce to attend in solidarity.
Three years we have been denouncing the methods of counter-terrorism (in France and around the world), supporting the defendants in the face of staggering legal costs, forging links between comrades targeted by the repression, breaking the isolation in which the state was trying to confine us. This is three years of bearing witness, documenting and warning about the case and its implication.
Today, it’s clear that only the far-right media are supporting the aberrant narrative of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office. The shameful shenanigans of the DGSI, the PNAT and the examining magistrate have come to light: all those false minutes, those sound recordings where nothing can be heard, that selection of 0.7% of sound recordings to build a narrative, that criminalization of basic IT tools, and above all the abject violence inflicted by this procedure (from surveillance to trial, via arrests and imprisonment).
Despite the proven absence of paramilitary training and the total absence of any terrorist plans, the sentences requested by the prosecution are heavy: prison (suspended), obligation to undergo medical treatment, registration on the FIJAIT (20 years); and the aim is to send LibreFlot back to prison for 4 years. A punitive hargue that serves no public safety purpose, but which bears witness to the radicalization of the justice system that we observe on a daily basis.
We invite you to join us in solidarity with the defendants on 8/12. We’ll be sharing coffee, zines, news, songs, a picnic and (rhythmic) music to keep us warm! Don’t hesitate to bring anything you can think of to warm up the court [Tribunal de Grande Immondice = Tribunal of Big Trash, NdT].
The delivery of this historic judgment will decide whether or not anti-terrorism can be deployed against radical activism: from ZADs to squats, from head of demo [tête de cortège, in french, NdT] to parties, from support for exiles to internationalism.
For life, for liberty, release the accused!
THE DECEMBER 8th CASE. 