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Leipzig (Germany): incendiary attack against the forest devourer

Leipzig: incendiary attack against the forest devourer

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[North of the city of Dresden (capital of the region of Saxony) is the Heidebogen (“Heibo”) forest, which has been occupied since August 2021 to prevent it from being razed for the adjoining KBO gravel plant.
On Wednesday, February 15, about 50 people who had built tree houses and erected barricades at Heibo began to be evicted from the forest in a large-scale police operation that ended the next day. Since then, the public company Sachsenforst (the German equivalent of the ONF for the region of Saxony, which also manages the “natural parks” of the region) has taken possession of the site with four harvesters and 70 forestry employees, beginning to level the hectares of state-owned forest promised to the gravel pit.
On Thursday, February 16 in Leipzig, four vans parked in the Sachsenforst parking lot were set ablaze during the night in retaliation, causing nearly 100,000 euros of damage and the opening of an investigation under the aegis of the PTAZ (the Police Center against Terrorism and Extremism). Here is a translation from the German communique, claimed three days later by “anarchists”].

Sachsenforst vehicles set on fire – Heibo stays!

On February 15, the cops commissioned by Sachsenforst started to clear the occupation of the Heibo forest near Dresden. This is the third time this year that an occupation has been evicted. This is the next place where people oppose the destruction. And as in Danni, Hambi or Lützerath*, it is the interests of capital that are to be imposed. The clearing of 900 hectares of forest and the associated destruction of irreplaceable wetlands and springs is unique in Germany. For years, various environmental associations have been warning of the extent of the phenomenon, and for just as long, those responsible have ignored them. The state-owned company Sachsenforst, which is directly subordinate to the Ministry of Ecology of the state of Saxony, is in the front line. A green policy, as usual.

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Treasure Hunt for Coastal Gaslink (Canada)

Treasure Hunt for Coastal Gaslink

Over the past few months, several sections of the coastal gaslink pipeline have been vandalized. Financially, the consequences of each act were minor: a few holes in the pipeline here, some corroded welding seams there, damaged concrete here. Our goal was to contribute to the small delays in a project that was already well over budget.

  1. We drilled holes less than a penny wide in a section of pipe that had not yet been lowered into the trench. We covered the holes with fiberglass film, which temporarily prevents leaks in the pipes, but only lasts a few months. We know that welded sections of coated pipe are assessed before being lowered into the trench. After the trench is backfilled, they are tested under pressure. The holes were sealed in the hope that they would pass the first pressure test, but will have to be excavated and repaired before the pipeline is completed. This occurred during the last week of October on section 8 of the pipeline, between Kilometers 610 and 613.
  2. Between 585 and 588 kilometers of the pipeline, we found a section of pipe that had been dug out, so we damaged the coating at the joints by chipping and sanding it off in less visible places. This coating is needed to protect the pipe from corrosion and rust. We did this in early November. We liked this approach because the damage is not visible, but can still have a significant long-term structural impact if corrosion and rust show up, so it will need to be fixed.

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Grand Est,France : sabotage of an EHV pylon, some technical advice

Communique #2: Sabotage of an extra-high voltage pylon in France/

Grand Est

Indymedia Lille, February 12, 2023

In December 2022, in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoner Alfredo Cospito, we sabotaged an EHV pylon and partially removed its bolts (https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/27/france-grand-est-attack-against-nuclear-infrastructure-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito/). The sabotage of a high voltage line is not without risk and, even if it is done without error, there is always some risk. However, we found this risk acceptable and the action entertaining. Since direct action is always an attempt to motivate and inspire other contexts, we had already announced our intention to give some technical advice:

Choice of target: When choosing the mast, make sure that the insulators (the ceramic coils to which the cables are attached) are vertical! A diagonal or horizontal position indicates a tensile load in the corresponding direction. Choose the most isolated location possible. Make sure that there are no people between the object and the nearest pylons (e.g. busy roads crossing the line). Choose your escape route so that it cannot be blocked by the falling line.

Risk assessment/mitigation: It happens occasionally (although rarely) that electricity pylons bend or fall, even without sabotage. This can happen, for example, due to storms, the weight of snow, or simply material fatigue or inadequate maintenance. The result is a risk of premature collapse of the mast. This risk increases with each screw loosened and exponentially with each foot completely unscrewed. It is up to you, as a group, to decide how far you want to go. In all cases, plan the action taking into account the possibility of the mast falling while you are still there. Both at the base of the mast and where the cables touch the ground, there is a potentially lethal amounts of electricity on the ground within a certain radius! Move away from the object as quickly as possible in the opposite direction of the fall. Ensure that your body remains in contact with the ground at all times (grounding), walking with small “shuffling” steps. Make sure that the weather conditions are favorable. Do not perform this action in strong wind, heavy rain or snowfall!

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Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) France : sabotage the welcoming of the Minister of Labor

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne): sabotage the welcoming of the Minister of Labor

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Welcoming committee for the minister of labor
IAATA, February 11, 2023

sabotage of the railway north of Toulouse

The Minister of Labor was invited to the headquarters of the newspaper La Dépêche on Thursday to promote the pension reform and defend his vision of the world.

As a welcoming committee worthy of the name, the railway line north of Toulouse was sabotaged. The train embodies the supply tool of the economic system in labor and commodities. A system that works Just In Time can be disrupted by attacking these veins.

In solidarity with all those who refuse this world, who are in the streets these last weeks, who fight for a better life

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Hanover (Germany): Siemens under fire

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Hanover : Siemens under fire

de.indymedia, February 10, 2023

On the night of February 7-8, 2023, we placed incendiary devices with delays under four vehicles of the company Siemens in Hannover/Laatzen. Unfortunately, not all of them burned, but we know for sure that at least one of them was completely destroyed.

From Lützerath to Yucatán, Siemens is involved in every sordid affair!

Digitization, automation, data and signal transmission, energy generation, electrification, extension of the railway network – Siemens provides the infrastructural basis for capitalist and neo-colonial exploitation worldwide.
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Berlin (Germany): arson the police van

Berlin: arson the police van

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Translated from German via Sozialer Zorn, January 28, 2023
(from Berliner Zeitung)

Unknown individuals set fire to a police vehicle. At about 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, a passerby discovered the flames in a parking lot on Rudolstädter Straße in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. Police Station #26 was nearby, and their vehicles were parked there.

A police spokesman said that “firefighters extinguished the flames inside the van, whose side window had been broken,” preventing the flames from spreading to other adjacent police vehicles. The State Security (Staatsschutz) was in charge of the investigation.

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Berlin (Germany): two cars of a security company go up in smoke

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Berlin: two cars of a security company go up in smoke

Translated from German via Sozialer Zorn, January 28, 2023
(from Tagesspiegel)

Two vehicles of a security company were set on fire on Saturday morning on Köpenicker Straße in the Berlin district of Mitte. On January 28, around 5:30 a.m., the police suddenly heard a loud bang and shortly afterwards discovered the two cars in flames.

The fire department arrived on the scene to extinguish the fires completely. The side windows of the vehicles were broken and remains of pyrotechnic devices were found inside. The police are assuming political motivation, and the State Security [Staatsschutz] has been put in charge of the investigation.

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Paris: sabotaging the daily routine (continued)

Sabotaging the daily routine (continued)

Gare de l’Est: why is the interruption of traffic due to a “sabotage” so prolonged?
Le Parisien, January 24, 2023

“It’s titanic,” agrees an agent, this Tuesday afternoon, regarding the extent of the damage, which explains the interruption of train traffic at Gare de l’Est, all day Tuesday. In front of him, on the ground, a tangle of cables of all kinds. On the side, two others patiently arrange portions of fiber optics, “it’s like long hair that is tangled”.

During the night of Monday to Tuesday, a fire broke out near the railroad tracks at Vaires-sur-Marne.

The alert was given to the police station of Noisiel around 4:35 am, says the prosecutor of Meaux. The public prosecutor of Meaux specifies that, according to the first indications of the investigation, entrusted to the judicial police of Meaux, “a first box housing electrical cables had been set on fire after two concrete panels barring access to the trap door where this box is inserted in the ground had been removed and deposited,” he said. “A second box, located on the other side of the tracks, accessible through a tunnel under the tracks, had also been damaged by fire.” In total, 48 cable arteries, or about 600 electrical cables, were damaged. The equivalent of 4 km in length.

Vaires-sur-Marne, le 24 janvier 2023. Environ 600 câbles de la SNCF ont été endommagés par un incendie volontaire, sous la voie ferrée. La circulation a été interrompue toute la journée.

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Paris: sabotaging the daily routine.

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Traffic disrupted at the Gare de l’Est in Paris after a fire caused by a “malicious act”.
France Info/France 3 Grand Est/Le Parisien, January 24, 2023

Bad surprise for SNCF users. The traffic at the Gare de l’Est in Paris will be interrupted “all day” following a “fire of electrical cables”, announced Tuesday, January 24, which had initially expected a resumption at 10 hours. The Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, and the SNCF have denounced an “act of malice” in a signal box that has caused the total interruption, at the departure and arrival of the Parisian station of the traffic of TGV and TER, as well as the line P of the Transilien.

Around 8:30 am, the SNCF said that it was an act of deliberate vandalism: “The act of malice is proven: a deliberate fire on the sheaths of electrical power supply cables of signaling and switching facilities is the cause of the interruption of traffic. The diagnosis is still underway,” reads the page dedicated to the incident. “There was an act of deliberate vandalism,” confirmed Anne-Marie Pannier, head of SNCF Réseaux in Ile-de-France, who said that SNCF gutters were opened and 48 cables located inside were burned.” The consequences are that all the signaling stations no longer receive quality and reliable information that is required to run trains safely on the network,” explained Anne-Marie Pannier late this morning.

The Twitter page of Line P reports “a fire in a technical room in the Vaires sector” (Seine-et-Marne) and “a signaling incident” in another sector, with a photo of the cables that burned.
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