Le Vigen (Haute-Vienne): Cell Tower Goes Up in Smoke
[On Thursday, May 7, around 4:50 a.m. in Le Vigen, about ten kilometers south of Limoges (Haute-Vienne), the TDF transformer located at the base of a Bouygues Telecom telecommunications tower was deliberately set on fire. The fire destroyed batteries, equipment cabinets, and the relay antenna’s cables. Bouygues’ mobile phone services, as well as the radio stations BFM, RMC, and Radio Espérance, were cut off in the area. Below is the claim of responsibility, published the following day on Indy Nantes.]
War Is No Accident
At dawn on Thursday, May 7, a Bouygues relay antenna and a TDF transformer for the digital radio station broadcasting BFM burned down south of Limoges, at a place known as “La Croix de l’Arbre.”
This media and telecommunications infrastructure has been targeted because it is integral to the military industry and the widespread integration of digital technology into our lives.
For Bouygues, ongoing wars are just another source of profit. Through one of its subsidiaries, INEO Defense, it provides communications infrastructure for the French army. As for BFM and RMC, their networks help turn us into spectators of the massacres in Palestine, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
War begins with social pacification and our acceptance of the hegemonic narrative disseminated by the media. We won’t dwell on introducing BFM, well known for being one of the reactionary mouthpieces for industrial interests. Their narratives also accustom us to our powerlessness and define for us the enemy to be fought, whether internal or external. The war effort we reject is the one that seeks to make us accept social austerity as inevitable.
Yet the plundering and militarization of the world continue to face resistance. As demonstrated by the millions of people who took to the streets in support of Palestine and by all the acts of solidarity. Digital technology is being targeted as one of the pillars in the development of AI-driven remote control in military operations, as Israel is using it on a massive scale against the Palestinian people.
Furthermore, military exercises will be taking place in the region in the coming days. Let us not forget that when the military deploys, it is never merely an exercise but always an operation of psychological warfare designed to acclimate people to their presence and make them accept a state of permanent war.
Let’s not remain indifferent.