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. Continue reading Hanover (Germany): Siemens under fire→
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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.
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.
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.
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. Continue reading Paris: sabotaging the daily routine.→
“Europe is overflowing with hundreds of billions of dollars for its economic recovery and rearmament plans, quite the opposite of a reduction in its electricity production centers seems to be in the making, with Germany, for example, having just reactivated all of its hundred or so coaland
lignite-based power plants (including the 27 that had previously been suspended in order to meet its carbon emission goals), and also extended the operation of its last three nuclear power plants, which were due to be shut down by the end of 2022. This grandiose combination of 19th century
coal with 20th century nuclear power to feed the devouring requirements of 21st century industry and digital technology is not surprising…”
Istres : the police station of Prépaou burned during New Year’s Eve La Provence, January 5, 2023 (excerpt)
Flames licked the entrance of the Prépaou municipal police center and municipal police officers were helpless in facing the disaster. While an undeclared fireworks display was held in the neighborhood, as in many other municipalities to celebrate the New Year, in the presence of many families, the situation degenerated once the residents returned home.
Some young people set fire to some containers and attacked the municipal police officers on the site. When they were called, the national police immediately dispatched half a company of CRS officers from Miramas. But the municipal police station had already been damaged by nearby garbage can fires. “Five arrests were then made during the night for arson and the investigation is ongoing,” confirmed the police prefecture.
Claim for the sabotage of an electric pylon
[received by mail, December 21, 2022]
We sabotaged the 225,000 Volts pylon on the main line that supplies electricity to the chemical-industrial center of Salindres (the company Arkema and others).
Method:
1) Saw the transversal bars.
Note: These are the bars that connect the legs together.
2) Saw with oblique cuts on the two legs in the direction of the fall.
Note: The pylon must fall perpendicular to the cables.
3) Saw with straight cuts on the same two legs about 30 cm above the previous cuts.
Note: Saw all the way to the end to have a fully detachable piece.
4) Strike the sawn pieces still held in place by the gravity of the pylon with a battering ram.
Note: a small tree trunk can be used
5) While the pylon is falling, move away with small steps in the opposite direction.
Note: hacksaws and oil are sufficient to perform this action. Continue reading Salindres (Gard)France: sabotage of an electric pylon which supplies the chemical center of Arkema→
Vitrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône): the sabotage of high voltage lines cuts power to the airport of Marseille and Airbus
Vitrolles: arson attacks on high voltage lines BFM Provence/RMC/VA, December 20-21, 2022
Two high-voltage electrical installations were the target of arson attacks on Sunday night in Vitrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône). One of the two fires led to a power failure at part of the Marseille-Marignane airport. For the moment, these actions have not been claimed.
According to information from RMC, around 4pm on Sunday night, two high voltage electrical installations were the target of arson attacks. These actions were performed on two pylons a few tens of meters apart and led to power cuts. 9,000 households were thus deprived of power for about twenty minutes in the communes of Vitrolles, Rognac and Septèmes-les-Vallons following the damage to one of the installations.