Besançon (Doubs): Boris’s wheelchair is on its way!

At the beginning of July, we urgently re-launched our appeal for financial support for the purchase of a custom-made electric wheelchair for Boris. As a reminder, Boris is the anarchist comrade from Besançon who, during the first lockdown, destroyed two cell towers belonging to the cops and cell phone operators in the Jura region, before being incarcerated in Nancy and then seriously injured in a fire in the cell where he was locked up, leaving him a quadriplegic.

Boris has been back in the Besançon area for two months. He has left the hospital in Chalon-sur-Saône, where he was in an SSR (Follow up and Readaptation Care) unit, and is now living in a medicalized home adapted to his situation… where he will be able to receive the wheelchair at the end of September! What’s more, the fund-raising appeal was once again warmly received in many places, and nearly 11,000 additional euros were raised this summer.

Big up to all those who organized public initiatives (concerts, debates, canteens), to anonymous individuals and to the solidarity funds that helped complete the purchase of Boris’s armchair: from London (England), Germany, Brussels (Belgium), Canada, Lausanne (Switzerland) and Athens (Greece); but also from Ardèche, Besançon, Cévennes, Marseille, the Paris region, Toulouse… and elsewhere.

Now, thanks to anarchist solidarity, Boris can look forward to a much more autonomous return to the streets and the sun. Because even if the judicial scum still haven’t let go of the case (the examining magistrate in charge of the cell fire hasn’t closed her investigations, and the Nancy Court of Appeal still intends to retry the comrade for the destruction of the cell towers), a new horizon is gradually opening up.

We wish him strength and courage!

Anarchists in solidarity and complicity with Boris
September 2023

via:  Indymedia Lille, September 22, 2023

Translated by Act for freedom now!