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Ile-de-France, France: Riot rage spreads following police assassination of Nahel

Riot rage spreads following police assassination of Nahel

Scenes of riots, mortars and fires marked the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in the department of Hauts-de-Seine, but also more sporadically in other departments of Île-de-France after the death of Nahel, 17 years old. The teenager was killed on Tuesday morning 27th June in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) by a police shooting [at point-blank range in the chest], the latter justifying his act by a refusal to comply. The policeman responsible for the fatal shooting, aged 38 years, is being questioned by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) as part of the investigation for intentional homicide opened by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office.
In addition to the 31 arrests during this first night of riots, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin speaks of « 24 police wounded » and of « about forty vehicles burnt ». Today Wednesday 28th June, 2,000 police and gendarmes will be deployed in Paris and its inner suburbs.

A Nanterre même, Urban violence has been concentrated in the neighbourhoods of Vieux pont where Nahel was from, but also Zilina, Berthelot, Pablo Picasso and Damades. The police were targeted by projectiles, fireworks mortars and sometimes Molotov cocktails. Approximately vehicles and garbage cans – often erected as barricades – were destroyed in the municipality. Fires were also lit along the rails of the RER A, between Nanterre and Rueil-Malmaison. Several administrative buildings (Public finances, community centre, two school groups) were also damaged by fires. « Various public and private buildings, among which some schools, have suffered significant and unacceptable degradation, sometimes irreparable », the mayor Patrick Jarry laments.
On the side of the authorities, 20 police were slightly injured, among which 18 CRS and two BAC officers of Gennevilliers. Ten police vehicles and a fire engine of the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) were also damaged.


Nanterre (92), le 28 juin 2023

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FR/EN/DE/SP/GR : A Message from S on June 17/ 23 was seriously injured, at the demonstration against the Sainte-Soline mega-basin on March 25, 2023 (France)

Communiqué du S

Salut tout le monde,

Je m’appelle Serge et j’ai été gravement blessé, comme beaucoup d’autres, à la manifestation contre la mégabassine de Sainte Soline du 25 mars 2023. J’ai été atteint à la tête par une grenade, probablement tirée en tendu par un gendarme équipé d’un lanceur de grenade cougar. J’ai subi un grave traumatisme crânien qui m’a mis en situation d’urgence absolue, situation aggravée par le blocage de ma prise en charge par les secours durant la manifestation. Après un mois de coma artificiel et six semaines en réanimation, j’ai été transféré dans un service de neurochirurgie, puis en centre de rééducation. A l’heure actuelle, je ressens d’énormes progrès dans ma faculté à bouger, manger et tout simplement échanger et réfléchir. Le chemin va être extrêmement long mais je suis déterminé à tout donner, à me battre pour récupérer ce qui me constituait, tant physiquement que mentalement. Je le fais évidemment pour moi, mais aussi parce que je pense que refuser d’abdiquer, refuser d’être écrasé par la machine répressive est une nécessité politique, à l’heure où les Etats font le pari de la terreur et de notre passivité.

Je tiens d’abord à remercier celles et ceux qui, dans ce champ de mines, m’ont porté, tenu la main, protégé, promulgué les premiers soins (ralentissement de l’hémorragie, massage cardiaque, intubation etc.) et m’ont tout simplement permis de rester en vie. Je tiens également à remercier les soignants qui, à chaque stade, ont pris soin de moi et m’aident encore aujourd’hui à reconquérir mon corps et ma tête. Je ne peux que vous faire part du bien fou que j’ai ressenti à ma sortie du coma devant la solidarité massive qui s’est exprimée : assemblées, textes, tags, dons, musiques, actions et messages divers de camarades de par le monde. L’écho de vos voix et des rugissements de la rue nous a aidé, mes proches et moi, à ne rien lâcher. Pour tout cela, je vous dis à toutes et tous un grand merci. Vous avez été énormes.
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Announcing Unravel.noblogs.org

Unravel is a counter-information project with an insurrectional perspective that aims to connect acts of negation and attack in the so-called USA. Those in power want our acts to remain disparate and disconnected, the spark that drives each of us shielded from the other’s view. By weaving together the threads of action, this project hopes to draw throughlines in the struggles that anarchists engage in, in order to broaden and amplify shared projectualities.

Domination and authority cross us in a tangled and knotted web of ever more interconnected systems; unraveling this network at one point has the potential to create a cascade that throws everything into disarray, opening spaces for freedom. This website is explicitly anarchist, and accepts/reposts communiques, reportbacks, analysis, calls to action, events, and mass media articles about unclaimed acts of vandalism, sabotage, arson, or destruction.

Actforfree receive and spread.

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Greece: Announcement concerning hunger striker anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis

Update urgent information: After so many days’ delays by the judicial authorities to respond to his requests, on June 9th our Anarchist comrade decided to stop drinking water and has also started a thirst strike.

ΓΙΑΝΝΗ ΓΕΡΑ ΩΣ ΤΗΝ ΛΕΥΤΕΡΙΑ

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Cardiff (Wales, UK) : a riotous night of vengeance, rage and defiance


 

Cardiff:A riotous night of vengeance, rage & defiance

22/5/22 – A night of rioting in Ely, Cardiff after two teenagers 15 and 16 years old…, pursued by police, were killed in a crash on their electric bike/scooter. Crowds fought the police with stones and fireworks, smashed and burned cars, and other burning barricades until erly morning ours of 23/5/23.
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Hamburg, Germany DE/EN: Tracking technology discovered on motor scooter



[Hamburg-Germany] Tracking-Technik an Motorroller entdeckt

Im Sitz eines Motorrollers wurde in den vergangenen Tagen ein
sogenanntes „AirTag“ der Firma Apple gefunden. Der Roller wird genutzt von einer Hamburger Anarchistin, die in der Vergangenheit bereits von Überwachungs- und Ermittlungsmaßnahmen betroffen war.

Das kleine, flache Gerät von einem ungefähren Durchmesser von 3
Zentimetern und einer Höhe von weniger als 1 Zentimeter wurde durch einen augenscheinlich mit einem Cuttermesser oder ähnlichem angebrachten
Schlitz ins das Sitzpolster des Motorrollers gesteckt.
Die Vermutung, dass eine Ermittlungsbehörde oder der Verfassungsschutz für die Platzierung verantwortlich ist liegt nahe.

Apple vertreibt die AirTags ursprünglich zu dem Zweck, Gegenstände wie
Schlüsselbund, Brieftasche oder ähnliches in der unmittelbaren Umgebung des eigenen Smartphones zu orten. Es funktioniert über Bluetooth und hat zunächst eine unmittelbare, maximale Reichweite von ungefähr 100 Metern im Freien.
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Ears and Eyes moves to the CSRC!


2023/05/05

Starting today, the Ears and Eyes project is now hosted by the Counter-Surveillance Resource Center (CSRC). The present website will not be updated anymore. The new address is:

https://csrc.link/earsandeyes

This new website has a modern design, is easier for us to update and brings advanced search features to our database, allowing you to filter and search through our 100 cases of surveillance devices hidden by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Feel free to check out CSRC’s other projects, including their database of resources on targeted surveillance and their Threat Library (a threat modeling tool for anarchists).

As usual, you can get in touch with us if you have feedback, criticisms or information to give us. We also welcome translations in any languages. You can now contact us at CSRC’s email address – csrc@riseup.net – or use our old address if you prefer.

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30/04 2023, Is Linux hard disk encryption hacked?

30/04 2023
Is Linux hard disk encryption hacked?

Ivan, an anarchist who has been in pre-trial detention in France for some time, reported in a letter that French police were able to gain access to the contents of his laptop.1 The laptop in question had an encrypted Ubuntu Linux installed. Another device with Windows installed and encrypted with Bitlocker could not be accessed. Ivan explained in his letter that he had used a 20-digit password consisting of letters, numbers and special characters for the system.

TL;DR

No, the Linux disk encryption has neither been cracked nor is it “insecure”. The performance of the technology as well as the algorithms have evolved, so the encryption settings should be checked and updated if necessary.

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Since then, there have been discussions on the web and in our environment about how this was possible, whether an outdated crypto algorithm in Ivan’s Ubuntu installation was to blame, and what this means for the security of other Linux systems. We even received claims that the encryption of the Tails operating system – which is also a Linux system – was not secure due to outdated algorithms. The topic of device encryption is not easily accessible to many, so we’d like to frame the discussion a bit with this post.
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Minimizing DNA Traces During Riotous Moments.

 April 27, 2023 
In our experience, most of us in North America aren’t in the habit of thinking very much about DNA traces. Information about how DNA traces are created or prevented is limited to several myths that are passed around. That said, you can be pretty certain that whenever arson is involved, a DNA forensics team will be involved too. For example, an arrest was made recently for a Jane’s Revenge arson after DNA was recovered at the crime scene. We want to briefly summarize some practical considerations. By arming ourselves with some preparation and an accurate understanding of how DNA is transferred, it is possible to drastically limit the amount of DNA we leave behind.

Although DNA is something we should always keep in mind when planning our participation in a riotous moment, we don’t want people to feel overwhelmed by this information. Actionable knowledge empowers us to avoid the dual traps of recklessness (acting as if DNA doesn’t exist) and immobilization (as if leaving traces and their analysis in a laboratory is inevitable).
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On March 29, a demonstration was held to commemorate the Day of the Young Combatant, 38 years after its origin. (Chile)

via:informativoanarquista Translated by Act for freedom now!

March 29: Day of the Young Combatant Report-Back

“Nothing changed in terms of the targeted repression that began to be applied to those who did not want to submit to the transition and to the itinerary of Pinochet’s constitution (…) How much young blood was still to be shed in this last year of dictatorship and in the years to come of police democracy of the Concertación*”
– Hans Niemeyer, 2015

On March 29, a demonstration was held to commemorate the Day of the Young Combatant, 38 years after its origin [1]. Historically, this date has brought together thousands of people in different parts of the territory who gather, generally, to denounce the dictatorial legacies of the Pinochet regime, extended by the rearrangement of the transition to democracy and, specifically, to give life to the memory of anarchist and subversive combatant youth.

Over time, this day has changed, although always characterized by street confrontations against the institutions of the police: “(…) in its first epoch, Maricio Maigret, Paulina Aguirre and the Vergara Toledo brothers, all militants of the MIR, were remembered. With the passing years, this date has come to incorporate new faces and names of youth who have died in the struggle against capitalism and power: Sebastián Oversluij, who died during a bank expropriation in Pudahuel. Mauricio Morales, attacking the military academy with a bomb. Claudia López, while participating in the barricades during a September 11th demonstration in La Pincoya. Jhonny Cariqueo, killed by a police beating on March 29, 2008. Jacier Recabarren, rebellious child who died in a transit accident.” [2]

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Vince is free! (France,Italy)

Vince is free!

Following the great news of March 28th (https://www.msn.com/it-it/notizie/italia/vincenzo-vecchi-l-ultimo-anarchico-condannato-per-il-g8-di-genova-anche-per-lui-niente-estradizione-dalla-francia/ar-AA19deCp), we receive and spread the following:

After numerous hearings, court proceedings, rulings for and against, opinion of the European court of justice etc. etc.
In France Vince is finally free.

In fact, after last Friday’s ruling effectively refusing to accept the European arrest warrant, the French prosecution decided not to appeal in cassation.

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Autonomous mapuche community Temucuicui: On Recent Police Repression in Our Territory

Temucuicui – On Recent Police Repression in Our Territory

March 4, 2023

Public declaration on recent occurances of police repression in our territory.

Autonomous mapuche community Temucuicui, declare the following before local, national and international public opinion:

1. Yesterday afternoon, March 3, 2023, the special forces of the carabineros launched a brutal intervention, using different weapons indiscriminently against our weichafe who resisted the military police incursion with only lances and witruwe (1), and gravely wounding weichafe Hugo Queipul (son of lonko Victor Queipul). They shot directly at our peñi with steel pellets, causing internal bleeding and compromising his stomach and lung, a serious clinical situation for which he is hospitalized in the intensive care unit, and will require surgery for the wounds tomorrow at Victoria hospital. We must remember that these are the very same steel pellets that took the life of our weichafe Alex Lemun in 2002, in addition to being a prohibited type of ammunition in the acting protocols of public order control. It should also be mentioned that an 11 year old minor in the community was also wounded by pellets in various parts of his body, and also needed to go to the doctor’s office in Ercilla. There are also others who were wounded in the community who refuse to go to a clinic out of fear of being arrested.
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Strategies for Countering Police Access to DNA Data

Chapter 10: OPSEC for Informational Self-Determination

Languages: German

Download: PDF (read, A4 booklet, letter booklet) • TEXT

OPSEC is military and intelligence jargon for “operational security” and refers to techniques designed to prevent their people being caught during or after an “operation”.

The fact that we have to talk about such things at all when it comes to issues like exercising the fundamental right to freedom of assembly or small acts of civil disobedience is a clear indication of how far the state’s mania for security and collection has already developed. It is generally better to invest resources on pushing back the security apparatus than in a technical arms race with state agencies.

Nevertheless, there is of course nothing wrong with trying to avoid giving unnecessary material to state authorities and exercising the right to informational self-determination. To prevent or at least significantly limit leaving casual traces, it is necessary to wear new gloves, a face mask, a hair net or, even better, closed headgear (e.g. a swimming cap) and washed clothes with long sleeves and pant legs[1].
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Athens,Greece: Summary of the previous days’ actions in Athens in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (since 20/10/2022) Alfredo Cospito.

Summary of the previous days’ actions in Athens in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (since 20/10/2022) Alfredo Cospito.

Actions/Interventions:

8.3.2023: An intervention took place in Syntagma Square on March 8, day of Remembrance and Resistance against the barbarity of patriarchy and mobilizations for the mass murder with responsibilities of State and capital in Tempe. Banners were unfurled, texts were distributed, and fliers thrown. Many people were interested in the comrade’s case. At the end comrades stayed on the steps of the square with the banner open for a long time, continuing to inform passers-by.
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Who wrote that? 2020 by Zündlumpen #76

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A brief overview of modern forensic linguistics methods for determining authorship.

The following article tries to give an overview from a non-technical perspective and to make a corresponding evaluation. There are some academic publications on this topic that could be evaluated for a better assessment. However, my main purpose here is just to raise the issue, not to provide a sound and conclusive view so if you know anything more, publish it!

Avoiding traces that could be your undoing down the road – perhaps even after years or decades – is probably of interest to most people who occasionally commit a crime and come into conflict with the law. Avoiding fingerprints, avoiding DNA traces, avoiding shoe prints and textile fiber traces or at least disposing of clothing afterwards, avoiding surveillance cameras, avoiding tool traces, avoiding recordings of any kind, recognizing surveillance, etc. – all this should be a concern for anyone who commits crimes from time to time and wants to protect themselves from identification. But what about those traces that often arise only after a crime has been committed, out of the urge to explain one’s deed anonymously or even by using a recurring pseudonym? When writing and publishing a communiqué?

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