Against the Olympics, fire at the cell tower and fiber optics
Game-Over in Gameville
IAATA, July 26, 2024
On the night of July 25 to 26, in Saint Orens de Gameville, we set fire to a cell tower and a fiber optic interconnect node, and tagged “No J.O.” on the tower housing the cables.
There is no Olympic truce. The government’s rhetorical bombardment of appeasement through sport, at both geopolitical and parliamentary levels, is accompanied by military bombardment around the world and a war against populations.
What kind of truce, what kind of appeasement are we talking about? The displacement of the most marginalized populations, the increased police presence in the capital, the development of panoptic surveillance in all directions, based on the installation of new video surveillance cameras and the repressive use of artificial intelligence?
Or the massive transfer of public money to the private sector, a situation which in 2004 ruined Greece and plunged it into financial crisis and austerity.
What kind of truce, too, for the Kanak prisoners deported to French jails, who are denied political autonomy so that our mining companies can continue to gorge themselves on nickel there? We need to secure a place in the sun for the new electric car and green tech markets.
That’s also why we’ve set our sights on a fiber-optic interconnect node, an essential link in the ongoing capitalist restructuring and technological war.
Behind the celebration of athletes running shoulder to shoulder, the bombs of world war are piling up. Behind every sporting smile, a fanged canine; behind every medal, misery and ruin.
The attacks have already started singing against these cynical festivities.
At the stadium as in life, let’s make a move toward resistance.
Some bad sports
Haute-Garonne: a cell tower set on fire to protest against the Olympics, an investigation opened
Le Parisien, July 28, 2024
It’s likely to be an anti-Olympic act. A cell tower was set on fire in Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, near Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), at around 4 a.m. on Thursday night, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien on Sunday, confirming a report by La Dépêche. “No JO” was spray-painted on the antenna.
The act was claimed on Friday by an ultra-left group. « There is no Olympic truce. », the group writes in a text published on various anarchist sites. For them, the local technique and the « fiber optic interconnect node » targeted are « an essential link in the ongoing capitalist restructuring and technological war ». « Behind the celebration of athletes running shoulder to shoulder, the bombs of world war are piling up. Behind every sporting smile, a fanged canine; behind every medal, misery and ruin. », launches this small group.
Firefighters were on the scene very quickly, at around 4am. According to La Dépêche, ten firefighters and three vehicles were on the scene, taking two hours to extinguish the blaze. As a result, the telephone network was damaged. According to Orange, quoted by La Dépêche, some 5,000 people were affected, all operators included. “In addition, a deterioration in mobile services can be observed in the same area. Orange teams are mobilized and doing their utmost to return to normal as quickly as possible”, the operator told the local newspaper on Saturday.
This act occurred on the same night as the sabotage of several high-speed train lines. During the night of Thursday to Friday, fiber-optic cables running close to the tracks and guaranteeing the transmission of safety information for drivers (red lights, switches…) were cut and set on fire in various strategic signal boxes at Courtalain (LGV Atlantique), Croisilles (LGV Nord) and Pagny-Sur-Moselle (LGV Est). Traffic is expected to return to normal on Monday.
via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!