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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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Storm Warnings # 57-58 (October 2022)

Storm warnings, anarchist bulletin for the social war, issue 57-58 (October 2022) came out. It is the full English translation of Avis de Tempêtes.

Storm warnings, issue 57-58 (October 15, 2022) :

For reading

For printing (A4)

For printing (Letter)

“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…”

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FR:
Avis de tempêtes #57-58

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Istres (Bouches-du-Rhône) : fire at the municipal police station (France)

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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.

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Salindres (Gard)France: sabotage of an electric pylon which supplies the chemical center of Arkema

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.
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Vitrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône)France : The sabotage of high voltage lines cuts power to the airport of Marseille and Airbus

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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.

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Munich (Germany): the cars of the military go up in smoke

On Saturday, November 19, 2022, at about 1:30 a.m., two cars burned in the parking lot of the Bundeswehr University in the Neubiberg district of Munich.

The two vehicles, an Audi and a BMW, were more than 50 meters apart, and “the fire could not have passed from one to the other,” according to a police spokesman. A manhunt was immediately launched, including the intervention of a helicopter, but no suspects were arrested. For the time being, the police are not linking the incident to other fires in Munich, although potential similarities are being investigated.
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France: Radical ecology: looking at the sabotage

The intelligence services get out their calculator

Radical ecology: looking at the sabotage of France

Le Figaro, November 9, 2022

Deliberate fires of electrical boxes for 3G/4G antennas and relay antennas in Savoie, fiber cabinets set on fire by tires in Finistère, cables cut in Var or Isère, sabotage of protected sites in the name of “social justice” in Cahors and Haute-Garonne… This is the map of a France sabotaged methodically by ultra-left-wing and radical ecology groupings that Le Figaro has exclusively revealed.

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Night Owls #2: Summer of Sabotage (USA)

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes in An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, “Everything in U.S. history is about the land.” All nation-states rely on maintaining control over a particular territory, while capitalism has forced people across the world into dependency by taking away their access to land. But the United States is also a settler colonial state, built on anti-indigeneity alongside anti-blackness. Colonial regimes like the U.S. “create their legitimacy by occupying indigenous land and trying to delegitimize indigenous sovereignty. […] That’s the fundamental core of the colonial project” (Amrah Salomon, O’odham Anti-Border Collective). Understanding the deep significance of “land back” as an objective is of critical importance, especially as the Defend the Atlanta Forest campaign and other place-based struggles gain momentum across this territory. Prioritizing indigenous sovereignty can be difficult for settlers in the U.S. to navigate, but it is critical to the success of liberatory struggle. [1]

So are practices of autonomous and offensive direct action, which this column aims to bring together. Struggles to defend land, especially when intertwined with reassertions of indigenous self-determination, pose an existential threat to the United States as a settler colonial project. This means that such struggles are met with brutal repression. We can help avoid the containment that repression seeks by spreading the active defense of land to new places, while evading state control by taking action in unexpected and decentralized ways.
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Leipzig (Germany): prison manufacturer continues to suffer

Leipzig : prison manufacturer continues to suffer

 

Translated from German via Sozialer Zorn, November 4, 2022
(from the press)

The series of attacks on the construction company Hentschke seems to be continuing. On Thursday night, November 4, two excavators were set on fire in the Stünz district of Leipzig, causing 375,000 euros of damage.

The arsonists went to the railway construction site in the east of the city around 2 am. They set fire to two excavators and fled. The construction equipment burned to the ground before firefighters could extinguish it.

Police began to collect evidence overnight. State Protection (Staatsschutz) was involved in the investigation. The Saxon Police Center for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (PTAZ), specifically the special unit called Soko LinX, has been investigating the attacks on the Hentschke company for a long time.
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Quebec (Canada): hammer strikes to the cars of journalist-cops

TVA Quebec vehicles vandalized
Le Journal de Montréal/Le Soleil, October 18, 2022 (excerpt)

At least seven vehicles belonging to TVA Quebec [a private Canadian television network owned by telecommunications giant Quebecor] were the target of vandalism on Monday night. Several windows and headlights were smashed by the perpetrators.

The police of Quebec City were called on the scene at around 5:30 a.m., Tuesday. They confirmed that a complaint was filed for vandalized vehicles, belonging to a company located on Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard. On one of the vehicles, the vandal wrote the letters CAQ, in reference to the government [the Coalition avenir Québec is the party in power since 2018]. On the surveillance cameras of ExpoCité, we see a man in a balaclava approaching the vehicles, he then left on his bike.

It wouldn’t be the first time TVA employees returned to work with a nasty surprise. Their vehicles are often targeted by vandals on the road or during demonstrations, so all the news

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Lützerath (Germany): incendiary sabotage of coal mine pumps

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Lützerath : incendiary sabotage of coal mine pumps

Fire to the coal infrastructure – reduce RWE to ashes
Translated from German via de.indymedia, 22 October 2022

On the night of October 18-19, we, several small groups from Lützerath, set fire to three pumps of the Garzweiler 2 open pit mine in the vicinity of the village.

The pumps are part of the infrastructure of the open-pit mine for which the village of Lützerath has to be destroyed. In the last two years, Lützerath has become a central place of resistance in Germany against the destruction and exploitation of nature and our ways of living. The attempt to evict the village is imminent. But Lützerath is not the only village threatened by open-cast mining.

On Monday, October 17, RWE [the operator of the giant brown coal mine] began to uproot the trees and demolish the houses in Immerath. Immerath is within sight, only a few minutes from Lützerath. All the inhabitants of the village have been evicted by RWE and large parts of it have already been destroyed.

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Poissy (Yvelines north-central France): spray the hatch with gasolineand cut the internet to the city

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Poissy. The arson of a telecom room sprayed with gasoline causes a huge internet cut
78Actu, October 31, 2022

Since Sunday, October 30, the Internet network is cut in the area of Poissy (Yvelines) following a fire in a telecom room. The cut should last a week.

This is an inconvenience that professionals and individuals in the area of Poissy (Yvelines) would have been well without. At 6:47 a.m. on Sunday, October 30, firefighters were called to a trash can fire in a residential area of Poissy, rue des Capucines.
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Marseille,France : and one beautiful night the internet was cut off 

Marseille : and one beautiful night the internet was cut off 

[Update: According to specialized sites of the industry, this coordinated sabotage struck not only several international cables in Marseille (the Amsterdam-Paris-Lyon-Marseille line, the line coming from Barcelona and the one going to Milan), but also another one in Aix-en-Provence, affecting the delivery of internet via the submarine cables which leave the port of Marseille to serve Asia.

If the national press has for the moment released sparse information so as not to sound the alarm and avoid giving bad ideas, several impacted Internet operators have nevertheless had to publish “incident tickets” following these sabotages. Cogent (North American manager of huge fiber optic networks carrying 17% of the world’s Internet traffic) said for example that one of the attacks occurred “on a private site of the water company of Marseille, which is also a major hub for fiber cables for various operators”, and the French data center manager OVH said in particular that “the cut has impacted the link between Marseille and Singapore” by “saturating all the Internet traffic coming from the United States and Europe” to this state…]

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Atlanta (USA): burning the movie studio to defend the forest

Atlanta: burning the movie studio to defend the forest

In Atlanta, Georgia, the city council voted on September 8, 2021 to allocate 34 acres of the South River Forest to a $90 million police militarization training center project, known to locals as “Cop City.” The facility includes a reconstructed city for cops to train in, as well as a helicopter landing pad, new firing ranges and more. Its development is led by the Atlanta Police Foundation and two-thirds of the funding comes from “philanthropic” and corporate donors, sending the rest of the bill back to the public.

Since April 2021, a struggle has been underway to oppose this “Cop City” project, with regular attacks and sabotage and an occupation of the wooded area to the east, which has reverted to its former name of Weelaunee Forest. And since the Hollywood film studio on the edge of the forest, Shadowbox Studios (formerly Blackhall Studios), also planned to expand by destroying another 80 hectares on the same side as the “Cop City” project, it became another target from the start. This summer, on July 31, when workers intervened accompanied by cops to try to clear the land needed for its expansion, they were, for example, pelted with stones, a backhoe was smashed and a company pickup truck set on fire, after other identical attacks (see brief chronology below).

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