Chile: 2019-2020 case against Mónica and Francesco
In 2020, anarchists Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar were arrested in Chile, accused of sending parcel bombs to a police station and an ex-Minister of Interior in 2019, and placing bombs in a park in an attempt to harm cops in 2020. Both were charged with attempted murder.
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Germany: Repression against Zündlumpen
In April 2022 and October 2022 several apartments and cellars, a print shop and a library were raided by cops as part of an investigation against the alleged editors of the German anarchist newspaper Zündlumpen published from 2019 to 2021.
During the April 2022 raid on the print shop, cops seized thousands of books, zines and newspapers, as well as all printing equipment and materials, seemingly in an attempt to disrupt the printing capacity of local anarchists.
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Germany: The three from the park bench
In 2019, three comrades were arrested while sitting on a park bench late at night in Hamburg, accused of carrying incendiary devices and planning to commit the arson of a specific building whose address was written on a piece of paper found on them. Two of the arrested comrades were being tailed by cops for a few hours before the arrest took place.
In a 2020 trial, the comrades were sentenced to between 19 and 22 months of prison. The sentences were confirmed in a 2022 appeal.
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France: Repression of Lafarge factory sabotage
On June 5th, 2023, about fifteen people were raided and arrested in France, accused of participating to the December 2022 sabotage of a factory operated by the French industrial company Lafarge. The sabotage, which happened during the day and involved between 100 and 200 activists, caused around 6 million euros of damage.
On June 20th, 2023, about eighteen additional people are raided and arrested in France, some of them in connection with the Lafarge sabotage.
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United States: Repression of the first Jane’s Revenge arson
In March 2023, a comrade was arrested and accused of a May 2022 arson against the headquarters of an anti-abortion group. The arson was the first of a series of attacks claimed under the name ‘Jane’s Revenge’ (a reference to the ‘Jane Collective’, an underground organization that facilitated access to abortion from 1969 to 1973 in the United States).
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Germany: Berlin 2023 railway conspiracy case
In February 2023, a few minutes after midnight during a routine surveillance flight, the helicopter of the German federal police identified two comrades on railway tracks close to Berlin. Three police cars were dispatched to the location and the people were arrested, suspected of an arson attempt against the railway infrastructure.
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