Loire/Puy-de-Dôme: double attack on Aubert et Duval steelworks, supplier to war industries
During the night of November 19 to 20, we attacked the power supply of two production sites of the Aubert et Duval corporation:
– At Firminy, we sawed through a pylon on the 220kV line supplying the site. It only partially fell.
– In Ancizes-Comps, we also set fire to a 220kV line, at the point where the high-voltage cables went underground. We were able to get close and place our devices at the foot of the sheaths, without harm.
Aubert et Duval is a key player in the French military industry. It supplies parts for Naval Group submarines, Dassault Rafales and Framatom nuclear power plants.
Our action coincides with the international call for a week of action against all wars, from November 17 to 25, 2023, published at the beginning of November (it’s a bit late…) on Iaata.info. We applaud this kind of initiative, and in turn call for the military industry to be attacked everywhere and at all times.
One thing’s for sure: we’ve achieved our goal of attacking the military industry. While we don’t have the means to know exactly how much damage we’ve caused, we do know that these industries know they’re being targeted, and that their weak points are being exposed by our actions.
“Behind the war, ordinary factories”.
As the tag left on the site of an aeronautics factory burned down in March 2023 in Beauchastel so aptly put it, the war we’re told all day long must end and is unjust, starts here; and is made possible by seemingly innocuous businesses too.
It’s no secret that global conflicts are escalating in intensity. For almost two months, bombs have been falling on the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, at an unprecedented rate, and with broad political, military and financial support from the United States and most Western countries. The same people who call for a truce, respect for civilians and international law, are producing the bombs that massacre in a way they claim to condemn, there or elsewhere, since several billion people live in war zones, with the horror that this engenders and that we all know about: rape, torture, forced displacement, etc. This hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t so macabre.
These wars are the very concrete result of a military-industrial complex, with its factories, laboratories and technicians. In France, the eight major military industry groups – Airbus, Arquus, Dassault, MBDA, Naval group, Nextor, Safran and Thales – are celebrating record sales. Some 4,000 companies work for the defense industry, with the active, ongoing support of the state, which has earmarked a budget of 417 billion euros to increase its killing power and export its arsenal worldwide. Machines of death that are used directly for massacres, as in the case of Dassault fighter jets or Nexter tanks and guns used by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen.
We don’t want to remain indifferent to this. We also want to send a message to the workers in these industries. That our actions will deprive them of their work for a while, and make them face up to their responsibilities. We also hope that these acts, and the words we put on them, will help to make these discreet factories of death more visible.
Our thoughts go out to those who fight for their freedom, and to those who face repression.
Let’s attack everywhere!
via: sansnom.
Translated by Act for freedom now!