Internationalist Call for Actions in Solidarity with Marcelo Vollarroel after 15 Years in Prison & in the Context of the Permanent Campaign for his Freedom!

On March 15, in the context of comrade Alfredo Cospito’s admirable determination in Italian prison, and comrades Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar’s preparation for trial, antiauthoritarian and subversive prisoner, comrade Marcelo Villarroel marks 15 years of imprisonment. 15 years ago, he was captured in Argentina while fleeing Chile in clandestinity due to the case known as “Security”.

The antagonistic actions against power that the comrade chose as his form of life at a very young age made him a target of the powerful and their media. They created a brutal and crude spectacle of persecution out of the expropriation of that bank in the center of Santiago, Chile and the resulting death of the cop Moyano in October 2007.

The state kidnapping of Marcelo, which in concrete terms is a concealed life sentence, is sustained by the most rotten filth of the dictatorial inheritance: Pinochet’s putrid Military court, even in 2023. Something that seems unthinkable 50 years after the military coup and the start of the civic-military dictatorship.

However, this parallel justice, that no one seems to notice, hear or mention, remains intolerably operational. This was demonstrated this past February 27 at the sentence review hearing helf in the 7th Guarantee Court of Santiago, which confirmed that Marcelo should remain in prison until 2036.

Specifically, Marcelo could have applied for parole since December 2019, but the modification of DL 321 by law 21.124 in January 2019 applies retroactively to him.

To have an anti-authoritarian comrade held captive for years under sentences coming from military rulings only demonstrates the shameless trickery of an oligarchy that seeks to use prison to exterminate anyone who interrupts the expansion of its domination.

Fifteen years after Marcelo’s kidnapping we call on all comrades, individuals, spaces and collectives that build autonomous and anarchic subversive antagonism from anti-prison internationalism to a week of action and agitation in solidarity with the comrade from Monday March 13 to Monday March 20 for the Annulment of the Convictions of Pinochet’s Military Justice and for his immediate release to the street.

Putting our imagination from insurrectionary complicity to use.
Annul the military justice sentences now!
End prison society!
Freedom for Marcelo Villarroel now!
Subversive, anarchist, anti-speciesist and Mapuche prisoners out of jail now!
As long as there is misery there will be rebellion!!!

From different territories:

– Individualities in Affinity.
– Anti-prison Solidarity Network with Juan and Marcelo (RSAJM).

via: https://lucharcontrael41bis.noblogs.org/2023/03/03/llamamiento-internacionalista-a-la-accion-solidaria-con-marcelo-villarroel-a-15-anos-de-su-detencion-y-en-el-contexto-de-la-campana-permanente-por-su-salida-a-la-calle/
Translated by Act for freedom now!