via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!
[On the night of Sunday to Monday, December 2 in Berlin, at around 3am, a double incendiary attack destroyed around twenty concrete trucks at two industrial sites in northern Berlin. The 8 concrete mixers torched in Gehrenseestraße (Lichtenberg district) belonged to the Mexican multinational Cemex. And the 9 concrete mixers torched on Pyramidenring (Marzahn district) belonged to the German company HeidelbergMaterials.
You may recall that these two global concrete giants had already been attacked several times in the German capital: on December 27, 2023, CEMEX was set ablaze for the first time (five concrete mixer trucks arsoned, as well as the bulk conveyor belt and a technical building near the silos), then a second time on January 19, 2024 (two excavators present on the Berlin A100 highway construction site). On March 15, 2024,HeidelbergMaterials was attacked (six concrete trucks destroyed and three excavators damaged on the A100 highway construction site).
Here is a translation of the claim for the latest attack, on December 2, which hit both Cemex and HeidelbergMaterials at two separate sites, a text that appeared on indymedia germany on the same day].
Switch off the concrete industry
Flames once again lit up Berlin’s cold, dark nights. On the morning of December 2, machines and vehicles belonging to concrete giants Cemex and Heidelberg Materials were reduced to ashes.
This is not the first time that these companies have been targeted by well-deserved attacks. Already in the winter of 2023/24, several Cemex trucks and a conveyor were completely destroyed by fire, and several Heidelberg Materials trucks, which were used to transport concrete for the A100 freeway, were set on fire. The two action claims explained how these companies are responsible for projects of destruction of nature and colonization. Now the concrete industry has been dealt another blow. There’s no need to explain why these two companies have once again become targets. We understand this action as the continuation of a series of attacks on concrete giants around the world, as an offensive against those responsible for the ecocide that is already a reality in many territories. These companies actively participate in neo-colonial policies and profit from war, exploitation and genocide in the countries where they operate.
Concrete plays an important role in today’s world. Countless cities have been built that resemble cages for people, where all you can breathe in is exhaust fumes and misery. They are places of alienation, where it’s no longer possible to see the awe-inspiring beauty of wild nature, and where faceless towers block out the sunlight, while human idiocy tries to scratch at the sky by constructing ever taller buildings. But they forget that there will always be a little plant to find a crack in the concrete, to sink its roots in and grow. This color, in the sad gray, is living proof that wild nature can resist crushing concrete. Just as, for our happiness and their misfortune, there are people everywhere who want to destroy their concrete world. It inspires us and brings smiles to our faces, whenever we hear that, elsewhere, companies that ravage the earth are faced with anger and fire.
Or as the comrades of the Célula insurreccional por el Maipo. Nueva Subversión wrote from Chile: “May this fire be an embrace for the comrades who have dealt blows in other territories across the world […] Knowing that attack must be immediate and in all territories where the facilities and means of those responsible for the devastation are found, contributing to dialogue through direct and confrontational action, without any shade of hope in institutional processes or saviors.”
May the warmth of the fire warm the hearts of Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris and Nikos, locked up in Korydallos prison, Athens.
In revolutionary memory of our comrade Kyriakos and all those who died in combat.
Freedom and happiness for Nanuk, Maja, Hanna and all the others locked up in the prisons, as well as for all those who have went into clandestinity in the vastness of nowhere.
