News Briefs from Lucioles #18 - August 2014
AGAINST BAILIFFS AND EXPLOITERS…In response to the arrest of a
dozen anarchists in Italy, eight ATMs are smashed or trashed with foam
and windows are shattered to pieces on the premises of two estate
agencies in Pré-Saint-Gervais and Pantin on 8th June.
AND AGAINST PRISON SOCIETY…On 13th and 18th
May two vehicles belonging to ONET Sécurité (a security company also
involved in the nuclear power industry) are set on fire in Paris and
Montreuil. On 4th June, in Pantin, it’s a van belonging to
Boygues (a company that builds and runs prisons and detention centres),
that goes up in flames.
WALKING IS MORE ECO-FRIENDLY… At the end of May 27 Keolis buses
ceased to exist. The company usually transports the rich and tourists
from the airport of Roissy to city hotels and vice-versa … In the depot
of Mesnil-Amelot only charred wreckages could be found (and right near
the prison for Sanpapiers – maybe those vehicles were also used
to transport people to their deportation?) Near Lilas three public cars
for hire are set on fire, and in Paris the tyres of 453 public bicycles
(and also 8 cars of the municipal administration) go up in flames. Now
take a walk, you lazy people! It’s much more eco-friendly! And it is
also a loss for companies like JCDecaux, which exploit prisoners.
A CHANGE OF ROLE… On Thursday 4th June, at around
6:20pm, a jailer working at Osny prison is recognized in the street by
six individuals, who break up his face and thrash his car before
disappearing. A just retribution for his job!
LOVE AND MOLOTOV AT THE COURT… On Friday 27th July a
Molotov bottle and a rubbish bin blow up close to a metal door of the
court of Créteil, right where prisoners are held up. Probably a
declaration of love and freedom!
A FIRE STRIKING TWO TARGETS, AN ELECTION POLLS STATION AND A SCHOOL… On the occasion of the EU elections of 25th
May, classrooms of the school Roland-Dorgeles in Chantelup-Les-Vignes
(Yvelines), as well as many other places where children are
indoctrinated, were set to host election polls. But on the following
night someone tried to set fire to the first floor of the building after
smashing a security door.
ACAB… Non one loves cops and sometimes someone demonstrates it in a
very ‘warm’ way. So at the end of May some brave people threw stones at
a police van that was patrolling the streets. The attackers resisted
the arrival of cops’ back-up pretty well, but three people were arrested
in the end. A bad night even for the police patrol that ventured in a
wrong neighbourhood (Tarterets in Corbeil-Essonnes) as some of them
ended up in hospital. And at around the same time of the year, in the
neighbourhood of Oly in Montgeron, only with great trouble did the
police manage to escape the many ambushes set on them. In the
neighbourhood of Luth, Genevilliers, a fifteen-year- old boy was
arrested (thanks to CCTV cameras) as he was trying to set two bulldozers
on fire in a yard. Shortly after he was released, on Friday 23rd
May, the boy was arrested once again as he and a friend were throwing
stones at cops. It seems that people attacked the police station with
firecrackers on the same night in response to the boy’s arrest. No cops’
offensive must go without response!
ON 14TH JULY LET’S STRIKE THE COPS! On the occasion of the 14th
July’s celebration the police station of the XII Arrondissement in
Paris and that of Choisy were attacked with firecrackers. In Argenteuil,
the party lasted three entire nights with skips on fire, firecrackers
and stones against the cops in Val d’Argent and other areas. In
Villeneuve-la-Garennepoles some poles set on fire attract the attention
of the cops, and so do skips on fire in Villiers-sur-Marne… and bum! And
down the blows! In Essonne about 20 cars are set on fire, whereas in
Gennevillers the building hosting a school goes up totally in flames…
