October 8, 2025 / informativoanarquista

Translated by Act for freedom now!

On July 21, already 10 weeks ago, the trial against comrades Aldo and Lucas began.

The 8th week took place from 7 September, continued the evidentiary phase, in which each of the defense attorneys began to present their evidence. These consisted of a number of witnesses and a criminal expert who prepared a comprehensive report addressing various points of the investigation carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, including the detection and identification of the subjects under investigation. He reviewed videos compiled by the police at the instruction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office showing the exit and escape route of the explosive attack on the National Directorate of the Gendarmerie, and sets of photos related to investigations after the day of the action, which were recorded by cameras that were installed on the public road at two points of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and one in Recoleta, as well as footage taken from cameras on private home and municipalities. In conclusion, the defence expert held that it was not possible to identify, let alone recognize, either of the two people responsible through the images provided by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, therefore, it cannot be indicated through these images that one of the perpetrators of the attack is indeed Aldo.

On September 16, the trial of Aldo’s defence ended and the trial of Lucas was carried out. It consisted of only a statement by the police officer who arrested him to give detailed information about this particular event, Thus, the exhibition of the defence evidence was completed and the 9th week concluded. Continue reading (Chile) Update from Weeks 8, 9 and 10 of Trial Against Comrades Aldo and Lucas →

The Hostage-taking does not end, it just changes its face

Conditional release imposes the well-known restrictions: Presence at the police station and a ban on leaving the country until the end of the sentence. This is a normal procedure. However, what the state reserves for the cases of prisoners convicted under 187A, the well-known “anti-terrorism” law, is the subjection of everyone to the control and restrictions of an authority that was also established in Greece following a European directive.

This is the Anti-Money Laundering Authority, Section B (from now on in the text I will refer to it as an Authority) which is headed by prosecutors. Based on Article 50 of Law 4557/2018, everyone who has been convicted of dynamic-armed forms of resistance, that is, for “terrorism” according to state phraseology and legislation, has no right over any asset in their possession, whether it concerns bank accounts or real estate or anything else, since everything is frozen by the Authority.
Continue reading Pola Roupa:The Hostage-taking does not end, it just changes its face →