Bavaria: Police relay antennas burned
translated from German to French from de.indymedia, 17 December 2021
During the night of 13.12. we set fire to two transmission antennas of the Bavarian Criminal Police Centre in Nuremberg.
There are countless reasons for hating and attacking the police.
The main mission of the police is to keep the existing social status quo in place. This means that police officers are paid to ensure the preservation of an exploitative, racist, sexist social and economic system based on the exclusion of minorities. It is their job to defend profit and the dominant position of the powerful in this system against any attempt to change in the direction of social justice, equality, redistribution or environmental sustainability. The police thus share the ideology of inequality in which LGBTQIA+, migrant, poor or disabled people are worth less than others, so are systematically denied access to basic and equal rights. By their very function, the police are necessarily conservative and politically right-wing.
In the media, political and legal spheres, the police are attributed inexistent neutrality and expertise, which is supposed to allow them to describe events or judge situations objectively. In fact, they are a political operator who openly acts against those they consider the embodiment of their enemies (people considered to be deviant, those who aspire to social change, or migrants), and are also given the sole right to interpret their attacks.
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