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Germany: Two years of Switch-Off – an evaluation

Two years of Switch-Off – an evaluation

April 2024

It has been two years since we first spoke. The call was made in the middle of the ongoing strategy debate in the climate movement. At that time, after Hambi, Danni and directly after Lützerath, the potential of mass actions seemed to have been exhausted for many. In the context of these and other climate protest and mass actions, we wanted to propose a project with a focus on decentralized and direct actions.

At this point in time, the view of and fear of the impending climate collapse made it clear to us that radical methods and an intensification of revolutionary practice within the climate movement were urgently needed.

We formulated anti-state, autonomous, anarchist perspectives on sabotage and wanted to incorporate these more strongly.

In terms of content, we focused on an anti-colonial and technology-critical analysis. We were inspired by indigenous struggles and their practices resisting against (neo-)colonial exploitation and the destruction of their territories. Colonial exploitation is not only part of the racist ideological history of the West, but continues to be part of the economic and imperialist expansion efforts of large corporations such as Deutsche Bahn with the Tren Maya megaproject. With our analysis and call, we stood in solidarity with international struggles. In the ongoing destruction of the earth, we saw the necessity of attacking industrial infrastructures and the possibilities of a strengthening international points of reference in these struggles.
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Berlin (Germany): 36 vehicles of war profiteers go up in smoke

ES:(Alemania) Reivindicación de atentado incendiario a 36 furgonetas de las empresas colaboradoras de la guerra Telekom y Amazon

DE: (B) Antimilitaristischer Angriff auf Militärkollaborateure Amazon und Telekom

FR: Berlin (Allemagne) : 36 véhicules de profiteurs de guerre partent en fumée

36 vehicles of war profiteers go up in smoke

[Note of Sans Nom: On the night of Monday to Tuesday, June 17, thirty-six vans belonging to war profiteers Telekom and Amazon went up in smoke in Berlin: 17 of the former’s vehicles in the Lichtenberg district, and 19 of the latter’s in the Britz district, within minutes of each other at around 3am. Here’s a translation of the communiqué on this anti-militaristic attack, which appeared on de.indymedia the same day]. Translated by Act for freedom now!

Anti-militaristic attack on army collaborators, Amazon and Telekom

Last night, several vans belonging to Amazon and Telekom were set on fire in the south (Britz district) and east (Lichtenberg district) of Berlin. Neither fences nor cameras were able to prevent anti-militarists from attacking these two army collaborators. Both companies benefit enormously from widespread militarization and wars. That’s why it’s appropriate to sabotage them.

Instead of a champagne reception, we chose to celebrate the opening of Amazon-Tower with the carcasses of burned out cars. But we don’t find this hideous building to be sickening only because of its impact on the neighborhood, but also because of all the other dirty tricks up the tech giant’s sleeve, and especially because of its active participation in war and genocide. Amazon’s servers and Cloud Services are used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to store the huge amounts of data resulting from mass surveillance of the Palestinian population. With its subsidiary, Amazons Web Services (AWS), Amazon is one of the IDF’s partners. In 2021, AWS, Google and Microsoft signed contracts for the IDF to use their servers (Project Nimbus). Since the Israeli invasion and the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip that has resulted, the IDF needs much greater computing capacity to employ its military AI programs (Lavender, Where’s Daddy?).
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(Netherlands ) Animal Liberation Front attacks slaughterhouse.

In early hours of 10th June 2025 the Animal Liberation Front carried out an attack on Slaughterhouse Plukon in Oosterblokker, Netherlands. 9 chicken transportation trucks and one van were completely burned down. (via: https://indymedia.nl/node/55854)

Factory manager Erlend Beltman reports to De Telegraaf (media) that he suspects arson and points to a freshly sprayed logo of the radical action group Animal Liberation Front (ALF) on the dumpster next to the fire.

The damage is estimated at more than 2 million euros. Plukon said they are investigating how they can restore logistics and limit the impact on their transportation and killing of chickens. At the time of the fire, the site was deserted.
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Watch out for Altametris drones! (France)

“An extra eye on the network”: how SNCF is using drones to monitor its railway tracks

Le Figaro, May 3, 2025

The rendezvous is at 11pm in the middle of nowhere, in an undisclosed location. There, on the eve of major departures for the long weekend, the SNCF is organizing a rather special surveillance operation, using a drone at the intersection of several high-speed railway lines. High-quality equipment resembling a small plane, capable of flying more than 100 meters above the ground and more than ten kilometers away from its pilot, making it invisible to even the sharpest eyes. Equipped with a thermal sensor and able to see “as in daylight” despite the advanced darkness, it can spot the slightest intruder as well as confirm that the catenaries and other technical installations are in a good condition. “The advantage of the drone is that it can monitor a large area in a very short time, and possibly detect anything abnormal,” explains SNCF Réseau’s Executive Vice President Projects, Maintenance and Operations Olivier Bancel.

The aim of this operation? To prevent the slightest risk in these tense times, but above all to communicate the SNCF’s ability to take advantage of new technologies to protect its 28,000 kilometers of track. As we watch, the exercise begins shortly before midnight, and the drone takes off. A few meters away, the aircraft spots an unmarked car in the vicinity of an SNCF critical juncture that, on the face of it, has no business being there. On the ground, the telepilot indicated this disturbing presence to the rail safety authorities, who immediately took over and sent a team to check it out. Five minutes later, the verdict was in: “all’s well”. “That’s the end of the exercise for us,” says railway safety officer Sébastien Conseil, team leader for the evening. Although this was just a practical exercise, the SNCF assures us that it carries out “doubt verification almost every time a drone is deployed”.
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Jonquières (Oise): severing the arteries of data (France)

In the south-east of Oise, more than 10,000 households without internet after an act of vandalism
Courrier Picard/France3, May 23, 2025

During the night of May 22 to 23, a major service outage affected the south-east of the Oise region, depriving more than 10,000 homes and businesses of internet, fixed telephony and television, and disrupting the mobile network.

According to Orange, the incident took place between midnight and 1am. The perpetrators opened underground access hatches and vandalized the cables. However, the cables were not stolen. In the process, they cut the optical fibers, causing the major outage. Around a hundred communes were affected, notably in the Crépy-en-Valois area and in the Compiégnois region, around Jonquières.

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(USA) More Fiber Optic Vandalism – Kansas City, MO

More Fiber Optic Vandalism – Kansas City, MO

June 20, 2025

Spectrum says vandalism caused an outage for some of its customers across Kansas City on Friday.

Several agencies across the region reported communications issues due to the vandalism on one of Spectrum’s fiber lines.

“These acts of vandalism are not only a crime, but also affect our customers, local businesses and potentially emergency services,” a Spectrum spokesperson said.
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Houdremont (Belgium): sabotage of wind turbine project

Houdremont wind farm measuring mast vandalized
Matele, May 17, 2025

An unusual act of vandalism took place last weekend in the heart of the Ardennes countryside, in such a remote part of Houdremont (Gedinne) that the crime was only discovered yesterday. The measuring mast installed a few weeks ago as part of the wind farm project in the communes of Bièvre and Gedinne had been blown down. Some ill-intentioned person had cut the cables holding up the 80-meter tower. The wind is said to have done the rest.
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Greece: Taking responsibility by ALF in Thessaloniki

On the evening of June 13, in New Beach, Thessaloniki, we vandalized the car of businessman Georgios Galis, who owns a company that sells livestock equipment. The company in question, through its website, advertises the upgraded and modern machinery that contributes to the best conditions in livestock units.

For us, animal farms are prisons, in which hundreds of millions of
animals around the world are forced to endure a life with the sole aim of exploitation by humans for their milk or eggs and their death for their meat and skin. And all this to end up to the human consumers.

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Grete chania,Greece: Snails released from Halkiadakis supermarket chain

Snails released from Halkiadakis supermarket chain

Snails are the only animals sold live in supermarkets. Most are hibernating, huddled together somewhere next to the vegetables. A few have woken up and are sticking out their antennae that find stacked shells and nets. If they had a voice, you would pay attention to them. Somewhere between fasting, gourmetism and Cretan tradition, the next stage is to buy them, soak them, get rid of the dead ones and boil the rest alive.

We “see” the rest of the animals in the supermarket dead in the refrigerators and on shelves. Their chopped and packaged bodies and derivatives are passed by in the aisles, since for the depraved human-consumer, this horrible reality is a common sight. Their corpses are completely disconnected from the animal itself that was tortured and killed in order for civilized man to buy it, without dirtying his hands or his conscience. As objects, the other animals are placed as marketable products, all at his disposal always according to his pocket, to cover his imaginary needs.

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Rhodes island,Greece: Dying in a slaughterhouse

Rhodes, Dying in a slaughterhouse

Slaughterhouses are factories of death. No power, no system, no habit legitimizes the slaughter of innocents. Every living being has the right to life — without exception, without negotiation. We are not asking, we are demanding. We are not retreating, we are fighting. Our struggle will not end until the last slaughterhouse is demolished. Until violence ceases to be normal.

ALF

GR:

[Ρόδος] Βαψιματική σε σφαγείο
από ALF
Τα σφαγεία είναι εργοστάσια θανάτου. Καμία εξουσία, κανένα σύστημα, καμία συνήθεια δεν νομιμοποιεί τη σφαγή αθώων. Κάθε έμβιο ον έχει δικαίωμα στη ζωή — χωρίς εξαιρέσεις, χωρίς διαπραγματεύσεις. Δεν ζητάμε, απαιτούμε. Δεν υποχωρούμε, συγκρουόμαστε. Ο αγώνας μας δεν τελειώνει μέχρι να γκρεμιστεί και το τελευταίο σφαγείο. Μέχρι να πάψει η βία να είναι κανονικότητα.
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Nice (Alpes-Maritimes): electrical sabotage on the rise -France

After Cannes, Nice targeted by electrical sabotage

Le Monde/Le Parisien, May 25, 2025 (excerpt)

The day after a power cut in and around Cannes, a transformer was deliberately set on fire in Nice on Saturday night. According to a police source and the public prosecutor’s office, the transformer in question is located in the Moulins district, to the west of the city.

“On May 25, 2025, at around 2 a.m., an electrical transformer on Avenue Paul Montel in Nice was deliberately damaged and set on fire,” the public prosecutor’s office said. “Traces of tires” were found, and a source close to the case referred to ‘a broken door [of the transformer’s premises]’.

Some 45,000 households were temporarily without power in Nice and the neighboring towns of Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Cagnes-sur-Mer, said Enedis. Nice’s streetcar network was briefly impacted, with a delayed resumption in the early morning, and the airport was temporarily without power. By 6 a.m., power had been restored.

A flagrante delicto investigation has been opened for “destruction by fire in an organized gang” and entrusted to the judicial police. For the time being, there is nothing to link this fire with the events of Saturday, when 160,000 people were left without power not far from Cannes.
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(France) Communiqué for sabotage against electrical installations on the Côte d’Azur

Sabotage on the Côte d’Azur: And… cut!

[On the night of May 23 to Saturday, May 24, 2025 in Tanneron (Var) and Villeneuve-Loubet (Alpes-maritimes), the hydroelectric power station and a high-voltage pylon were visited, just hours before the closing of the Cannes Film Festival. The former was set on fire at around 2:45 a.m., plunging the eastern Var and western Alpes-Maritimes into darkness, and the latter collapsed in the morning after its legs were sawed off, depriving the town of Cannes and the surrounding area of electricity for a second time, this time in the middle of the day. This double attack, which Sans Nom published about yesterday, was claimed the next day by “two crews of anarchists” against the Festival and also against Thales Alenia Space, in a communiqué published on Indy Nantes].

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Communiqué for sabotage against electrical installations on the Côte d’Azur

AND… CUT!

Two crews of anarchists here. We claim responsibility for the attack on electrical installations on the Côte d’Azur. On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony and gala evening, we sabotaged the main substation supplying the Cannes area, and sawed through the 225 kV line coming from Nice.

The aim of this action was not only to disrupt the festival, but also to cut power to Thales Alenia Space’s research centers and factories, its dozens of subcontractors, the French Tech start-ups who thought they were safe, the airport and all other industrial, military and technological establishments in the area. Continue reading (France) Communiqué for sabotage against electrical installations on the Côte d’Azur →

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Sabotage and blackout at the Cannes Film Festival ( France)

[On the night of Friday to Saturday, May 24, several fires broke out at the same Biançon/Saint-Cassien extra-high-voltage hydroelectric power station in Tanneron (Var), at around 2:45 am. The fence was cut and traces of accelerant were found on site. 47,000 homes were without power, from the east of Var to the west of the Alpes-Maritimes. Then, at 10 a.m., thirty-five kilometers away, the pylon of a 225,000 volt high-voltage power line supplying the city of Cannes faltered that morning. Located in Villeneuve-Loubet (Alpes-maritimes), the 28-metre-high pylon suffered “major damage”, with three of its four pillars “sawed off”, leaving 160,000 households in and around Cannes without power.

This double sabotage resulted in a huge blackout in the south-east of France, particularly in Cannes, Antibes, Grasse, Vallauris, Mandelieu-la Napoule and Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne. It cut off factories, institutions, shops, elevators, traffic lights, cash dispensers, internet and television (via the modems), the Orange cell phone network (most of the cell tower’s back-up batteries lasted only two hours), railroad lines (train cancellations between Grasse and Cannes and delays between Les Arcs and Antibes), police stations (Antibes, Grasse and Cannes) and film screenings at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. In short, as summed up by a local newspaper on Sunday (Var Matin, 25/5): “Telephone network down, traffic chaotic, stations blocked, businesses at a standstill: the blackout paralyzed a whole part of the territory, just as the world’s spotlights were focused on Cannes on the closing day of the 78th Film Festival.” Power was restored from 3pm onwards, and for all homes in the region only around 4:45pm.

Investigations have been opened by the Grasse and Draguignan public prosecutor’s offices following these acts of sabotage, and the Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes has obviously condemned these “serious acts of damage to the integrity of electrical infrastructures”. Below is an overview of the initial consequences of this anonymous blackout, as seen in the regional and national press on Sunday…]
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Number of the day: 5 million euros ( France)

The fire at the large Enedis electrical transformer in Saint-Chamond, which started just before 3 a.m. last Tuesday night, was sabotage, according to the anti-militarist ultra-left activists who claimed responsibility.

The destruction of the high-voltage to low-voltage transformer opposite the Saint-Chamond police station left more than 3,000 households without electricity for several hours. According to several sources, the cost of restoring the installations will take several months and could amount to as much as 5 million euros.

(Excerpt from Essor de la Loire, May 13, 2025)

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