[Caen] Solidarity banner with the 8/12 defendants

from expansive.info (26 nov.)

From antinuk week in Caen, we wanted to express our solidarity, our strength and our rage with the defendants in the so-called December 8 case, charged with terrorist criminal association*.

The trial took place over 4 weeks in October in Paris, and the verdict is due on December 22. The prosecutor is asking for up to 6 years’ imprisonment for one of them**.
From labelling environmental activists as “eco-terrorists” to condoning terrorism for supporting the Palestinian people, the more and more fascist state is making ever greater use of the accusation of terrorism to muzzle protest.
At a time when the bourgeois justice system is seeking to make the December 8 case a precedent, we feel it necessary to express our solidarity, given that our struggles are also affected.

Solidarity in the face of repression!
Down with the State, the DGSI and the SDAT!

* For more information on the case, see here: https://solidaritytodecember8.wordpress.com/2023/09/11/what-is-the-december-8-affair/
** Daily reports on the trial, and details of the indictments, can be read here: https://paris-luttes.info/suivi-du-proces-du-8-12-17417?lang=fr (and are all readable translated into english on solidaritytodecember8.wordpress.com, NdT)

Communiqué from the Internationalist Network Serhildan

translated from serhildan (8 nov.)

Communiqué in support of the december 8 defendants

Communiqué from the Internationalist Network Serhildan in support of the December 8th defendants, whose trial was held from October 3 to 27 in Paris. The trial comes almost three years after their arrest, and many of the defendants have already been imprisoned in pre-trial detention and subjected to numerous acts of prison violence – from repeated strip searches to 16 months in solitary confinement for Libre Flot, finally released after a 37-day hunger strike.

Reports on the trial were published on the Blog des Comités du 8/12.

The trial of the December 8 defendants ended on October 27. Seven people appeared in court, charged with ” terrorist criminal association”. This high-stakes trial could lead to a broadening of the legal definition of terrorism to include left-wing protest movements. While the defense was unanimous in calling for the defendants to be acquitted, the anti-terrorist prosecutor requested prison sentences ranging from a two-year suspended sentence to 6 years’ imprisonment with a committal order for Libre Flot. The final verdict will be announced on December 22.

Even the liberal media recognize that the case against them is shaky to say the least. A group of people who didn’t all know each other, with no concrete project demonstrated despite months of surveillance by the DGSI. As in the Tarnac case in 2018, which ended in a judicial fiasco and the acquittal of all those charged, the terrorist project is constructed like a fable from disparate elements woven around the fact that the accused used tools on a daily basis to protect their privacy and encrypt their communications. A large homemade firecracker, paintball games and, at the heart of the trial, Libre Flot’s internationalist commitment to Rojava.

Since his arrest, Libre Flot has been repeatedly questioned about his reasons for going to Rojava and the knowledge he would have acquired there. During the trial, the judge insisted that he must have returned traumatized. Libre Flot asserts that he did not return traumatized and that what interested him, and brought him a lot during his stay in Rojava, was Democratic Confederalism. “What I want to share is a political experience”. He also denounces the indifference to the current bombardment of Kurdistan by Turkish military aircraft. It is precisely the political ideas of Libre Flot and the other accused that interest the court, in the absence of concrete facts to accuse them of. In police custody, Libre Flot was asked whether he used the word “comrade”, or whether he defined himself as a libertarian.

Since 2014, dozens of internationalists from France have traveled to Rojava to take part in the process of building a society based on basic democracy, women’s liberation and social ecology. It is these internationalists, many of whom have contributed to the fight against Daech, who are in the DGSI’s sights. Those who have left for no political purpose, solely to take part in the armed struggle against Daech or for Islamophobic reasons, are not worried. Against a backdrop of growing social protest in France, it’s hardly surprising that the spread of the ideas of social revolution in Rojava, and of international unity between socialist forces around the world, should rattle the tyrants who rule us.

Repression of the political ideas of the Kurdish movement has a long history in France. We recall that recently, between 2021 and 2022, as part of the investigation of those indicted on March 23, 2021, over 800 people were questioned by the DGSI. 11 of them were convicted of membership of the PKK, considered a terrorist organization by the European Union. They are now appealing against this decision.

In response to this attempt to intimidate and criminalize internationalism, we say that it only strengthens our determination to continue our work in solidarity with Kurdistan, and to spread the ideas and practices of the Rojava revolution and bring them into dialogue with our local struggles.

Freedom for the accused!

Imbrattamenti al consolato francese a Zurigo e a una gendarmeria in Alsazia (Francia)

Tradotto da: https://barrikade.info/article/6173 (29 ott.)

Da settimane lo Stato turco attacca il progetto rivoluzionario del Rojava. I militari bombardano le infrastrutture civili per logorare la popolazione.
Attacchi alle basi di Gerila sono in corso anche nel Kurdistan meridionale.
La nuova escalation della guerra di lunga durata è accolta con molta resistenza. La Gerila, l’YPG / YPJ e la popolazione del Rojava stanno opponendo resistenza al fascismo turco.
Lo Stato turco non è l’unica parte in causa nella guerra. L’Occidente sostiene Erdogan, partner della Nato, e anche la Svizzera ha ottime relazioni politiche ed economiche con la Turchia.
Anche la Francia collabora con il regime di Erdogan e spinge per la criminalizzazione del movimento per la libertà dei curdi e degli internazionalisti che si sono uniti alla rivoluzione.

Alla fine di ottobre, 9 compagni internazionalisti [in realtà sono sette, di cui solo uno è andato in Rojava; NdT] saranno processati/e in Francia in un processo antiterrorismo. Sono accusati/e di aver formato un’organizzazione terroristica. Una delle accuse è di aver combattuto per la rivoluzione con i compagni dell’YPG in Rojava.

Cinque dei nove compagni/e sono stati/e tenuti/e in isolamento per mesi nel tentativo, non riuscito, di spezzare la loro resistenza.
Con l’imbrattamento della gendarmeria in Alsazia e del consolato francese, inviamo i nostri saluti ai/alle compagni/e in Francia e in Kurdistan. Le vostre lotte sono le nostre lotte!

La guerra inizia qui! Viva la solidarietà internazionale!

Biji berxwedana Rojava!

Paint Attack on the French consulate in Zurich and a gendarmerie in Alsace (France)

translated from barrikade.info

For weeks, the Turkish state has been attacking the revolutionary project of Rojava. The military is bombing civilian infrastructure in order to wear out the population.

Simultaneously, in South Kurdistan attacks on guerilla bases are taking place.

The new escalation in the long-running war is being met with much resistance. The guerilla, the YPJ / YPG and the people of Rojava are putting up their resistance to Turkish fascism.

The Turkish state is not the only war party. The West supports the NATO partner Erdogan and Switzerland as well maintains excellent political and economic relations with Turkey.

The French state is as well collaborating with the Erdogan regime and is pushing on the criminalization of the Kurdish Freedom Movement and of internationalists who have joined the revolution.

At the end of October, 9 internationalist comrades [in fact they are seven, among one person left to Rojava ; NdT] are on trial in France within the anti-terrorism framework. They are accused of forming a terrorist organization. One of the charges is that they fought for the revolution together with the comrades of the YPG in Rojava.

Five of the nine comrades were held in solitary confinement for months in an unsuccessful attempt to break their resistance.

By colouring the gendarmerie in Alsace and the French consulate, we send our greetings to the comrades in France and Kurdistan. Your struggles are our struggles!

War starts here!

Long live international solidarity!

Bijî berxwedana Rojava!

Farbangriffe auf französisches Konsulat in Zürich und Gendarmerie im Elsass (Frankreich)

from barrikade.info

Seit Wochen greift der türkische Staat das revolutionäre Projekt Rojava an. Das Militär bombardiert zivile Infrastruktur, um die Bevölkerung zu zermürben.
Auch in Südkurdistan finden Angriffe auf die Stützpunkte der Gerila statt.
Der neuen Eskalation im lang andauernden Krieg wird mit viel Widerstand entgegengetreten. Die Gerila, die YPG / YPJ und die Menschen in Rojava stellen dem türkischen Faschismus ihren Widerstand entgegen.
Der türkische Staat ist nicht die einzige Kriegspartei. Der Westen unterstützt den Nato-Partner Erdogan und auch die Schweiz pflegt politisch und ökonomisch hervorragende Beziehungen zur Türkei.
Auch Frankreich kollaboriert mit dem Erdogan Regime und treibt die Kriminalisierung der kurdischen Freiheitsbwegung und diejenige von Internationalist:innen, welche sich der Revolution angeschlossen haben, voran.
Ende Oktober stehen 9 internationalistische Genos:innen in Frankreich in einem Anti Terror Prozess vor Gericht. Ihnen wird die Bildung einer terroristischen Vereinigung vorgeworfen. Eine der Anschuldigungen ist, dass sie mit den Genoss:innen der YPG in Rojava für die Revolution gekämpft haben.

Fünf der neun Genoss:innen sassen monatelang in Einzelhaft, als erfolglosen Versuch ihren Widerstand zu brechen.
Mit dem Einfärben der Gendarmerie im Elsass und dem französischen Konsulat senden wir den Genoss:innen in Frankreich und Kurdistan unsere Grüsse. Eure Kämpfe sind unsere Kämpfe!

Der Krieg beginnt hier! Hoch die internationale Solidarität!

Biji berxwedana Rojava!

Attacco incendiario contro un’automobile di Eiffage in solidarietà con gli/le imputati/e del processo per l’operazione dell’8 dicembre (Tolosa, Francia, 9 ottobre 2023)

tradotto da iaata.info

Solidarietà con gli/le accusati/e dell’8 dicembre

Con la Coppa del Mondo di rugby alle porte, La Dépêche de Minuit [“la Dépêche de Midi”, in italiano “Il dispaccio di mezzogiorno”, un giornale borghese di Tolosa, ndt] non ha voluto dimenticare i festeggiamenti che si sono svolti fuori dal centro città, pieno di gendarmi. La notte del 9 ottobre, durante la fase di gruppo [phase de poules: gioco di parole con la parola francese poulets, letteralmente “polli”, che indica anche gli sbirri, ndt], ma soprattutto spinte dall’odio per i polli, alcune mani hanno preferito la benzina ai palloncini per bruciare un’auto Eiffage nel quartiere borghese della Côte Pavée. L’azienda è uno dei pesci grossi dell’industria delle costruzioni e dei lavori pubblici e costruisce autostrade e prigioni. Prigioni come quelle in cui sono state imprigionate le persone arrestate l’8 dicembre 2020, attualmente sotto processo a Parigi. Per tre anni, la macchina antiterrorismo ha cercato di schiacciarli: di fronte alla repressione, sosteniamoli.

Firmato: il XV dell’anti-Francia

[Toulouse] Eiffage car burns in solidarity with December 8 defendants

translated from iaata.info
Solidarity with those charged on 8/12 (20th Oct.)

New match: Antifrance-Eiffage

In these days of the Rugby World Cup, La Dépêche de Minuit [La Dépeche de Midi = mainstream bourgeois newspaper in Toulouse, NdT] didn’t want to forget the celebrations taking place outside the city center full of gendarmes. On the night of October 9, during the group phase of the tournament [phase de poules – pun with the french word for ‘chicken’, i.e. cops, NdT], but mostly driven by hatred of cops, some hands chose petrol over balloons to set fire to an Eiffage car in the bourgeois neighborhood of Côte Pavée.

This company is one of the big fish in the construction industry, building highways and prisons. Prisons like the ones where the people arrested on December 8, 2020 are currently on trial in Paris. For three years, the anti-terrorist machine has been trying to crush them – in the face of repression, let’s support them.

Signed: the XV of antifrance

[Toulouse] Call for a gathering in support of those charged on 8/12

translated from iaata.info (8th oct.)

*photo of the gathering in Paris the 3rd of oct.*

At 6pm on Wednesday 18th at the Palais de Justice in Toulouse

The charges laid by the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT) cover refusal to hand over encryption codes for computer equipment during interrogation, possession of category C or B weapons (4 of which are undeclared), transport and possession of elements or substances used in the composition of explosives, manufacture of explosives and robbery as part of a group.

These facts would therefore all be linked to a terrorist enterprise, even though no plan of attack has been established after 2 years of investigation, but where the profile, supposed political affiliation and lifestyle of the protagonists would be sufficient to corroborate the idea of a terrorist project according to the white notes of the DGSI. At the end of the investigation, the case was not classified as a crime.

Thanks to the anti-terrorist tool, the State has free rein to exercise repression in its most complex and terrifying forms against those under investigation, while at the same time boasting that it is acting for the common good: surveillance, pressure, confinement, humiliation, isolation, control… with not inconsiderable consequences for all those who experience them.

Since then, Darmanin and the DGSI have claimed to have foiled “ultra-left” attacks in December 2020, when the movement against the “global security” law was gaining momentum. The anti-terrorist toolkit aims to silence all social protest, all questioning of the state, and the revolutionary ideas and practices have been on the front line for decades.

While the indiscriminate jihadist attacks of recent years around the world have been deeply shocking, we have seen states use anti-terrorism to reinforce the prevailing security discourse and legitimize authoritarianism, in France as elsewhere. And we see this discourse being reinforced in these troubled times, by designating numerous enemies (ultra-right, ultra-left, Islam, radical ecologists, rioters…) in a great catch-all that denies their political significance.

This anti-terrorist logic is applied in the same way in Russia or Belarus against anarchist, feminist or anti-war activists, but also against those fighting for emancipation and against authoritarianism in Spain, Chile, Burma, the Philippines, Italy, Turkey, the USA…

IN THE FACE OF THE ANTI-TERRORIST TOOL, LET’S NOT BE ATOMIZED. WE INVITE ALL THOSE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO VOICE OUR DETERMINATION AND RAGE AGAINST THIS SHITTY WORLD, AND OUR SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE ON TRIAL IN PARIS FROM OCTOBER 3 TO 27, 2023.

[Nantes & Nice] Joint action with a banner in support of the 8/12 defendants.

from Mastodon @Collectif Anarchiste Nantais (3rd and 6th oct.)

Banner : CAN, AFS, antifa nantais-es et Comité antifa 06.

[Nancy] Anti-prison collage and in solidarity with the 8/12 defendants

from manif-est (5th oct.)

On the night of September 28, posters were put up in Nancy against the planned new prison in Toul, against prisons in general, and in solidarity with the defendants in the December 8, 2020 case, who are on trial in Paris from October 3 to 27.