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Watch out for Altametris drones! (France)

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“An extra eye on the network”: how SNCF is using drones to monitor its railway tracks

Le Figaro, May 3, 2025

The rendezvous is at 11pm in the middle of nowhere, in an undisclosed location. There, on the eve of major departures for the long weekend, the SNCF is organizing a rather special surveillance operation, using a drone at the intersection of several high-speed railway lines. High-quality equipment resembling a small plane, capable of flying more than 100 meters above the ground and more than ten kilometers away from its pilot, making it invisible to even the sharpest eyes. Equipped with a thermal sensor and able to see “as in daylight” despite the advanced darkness, it can spot the slightest intruder as well as confirm that the catenaries and other technical installations are in a good condition. “The advantage of the drone is that it can monitor a large area in a very short time, and possibly detect anything abnormal,” explains SNCF Réseau’s Executive Vice President Projects, Maintenance and Operations Olivier Bancel.

The aim of this operation? To prevent the slightest risk in these tense times, but above all to communicate the SNCF’s ability to take advantage of new technologies to protect its 28,000 kilometers of track. As we watch, the exercise begins shortly before midnight, and the drone takes off. A few meters away, the aircraft spots an unmarked car in the vicinity of an SNCF critical juncture that, on the face of it, has no business being there. On the ground, the telepilot indicated this disturbing presence to the rail safety authorities, who immediately took over and sent a team to check it out. Five minutes later, the verdict was in: “all’s well”. “That’s the end of the exercise for us,” says railway safety officer Sébastien Conseil, team leader for the evening. Although this was just a practical exercise, the SNCF assures us that it carries out “doubt verification almost every time a drone is deployed”.

Essential surveillance

The resources allocated to this surveillance are costly – the SNCF would not say how much – but invaluable, because the risks are manifold: from theft of copper or cables to sabotage, everything is considered. And while there’s nothing to fear in terms of passenger safety, we’re promised, the fact remains that such damage can have very serious consequences for train operations. Last summer, just a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the SNCF was the target of a “massive attack” severely disrupting train traffic on the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern axes. Coordinated fires affected “nerve centers” and affected around 800,000 passengers. On the same day, a malicious act was thwarted on the LGV Sud-Est by railway workers carrying out maintenance operations during the night. But the network is not only watched over by these small flying objects, as Olivier Bancel is keen to emphasize.

“Our sensitive installations are equipped with fencing, alarms, fiber optics and cameras, and inspections are also carried out on the ground by our maintenance teams, not to mention the work carried out by rail safety”, he lists. Another regulatory inspection is the daily passage of an empty train, equipped with cameras and capable of carrying out certain geometric measurements, every morning before the opening of the high-speed line. “Systematic routines that can be stepped up if necessary”, says the Executive General Manager. “Surveillance was intensified 10 years ago thanks to drones, because they offer an incomparable advantage for carrying out long-distance rounds along the tracks and are highly complementary to other existing devices”, he explains, assuring that the SNCF group has been ‘a forerunner in this field’ by developing a dedicated subsidiary: Altametris.

Drones for data collection

An essential task, given that the SNCF is the victim of some 10,000 intrusions a year, points out Olivier Bancel, for whom “every intrusion is a risk”. “It’s not necessarily synonymous with malicious intent, but it can constitute a risk and requires certain emergency measures, such as slowing down train movements”, he continues. In this respect, drones are “an additional eye on the network”. However, supporting rail safety was not the primary mission of these small technological tools, which – originally – had been developed to inspect and map the network.

“We have a fleet of around 200 drones, the majority of which are made available to SNCF. It enables us to monitor wildlife as well as any faults on the network, but our core business is data collection”, explains Alexis Meneses, Altametris’ Strategy Director. On a daily basis, some fifty people work in this subsidiary, equipped with drones of all sizes, some of which have been designed to get into steep areas, along rock faces or into any other area inaccessible to agents, such as certain bridges or tunnels. The rock faces at Le Trayas in the Var region of France, for example, had been precisely modeled in 3D. The result is improved safety for personnel, lower operating costs and better monitoring of network conditions.

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Communique and footage released from torching of three vehicles at Lovitt technologies

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 0.8.07.25 – Communique and footage released from torching of three vehicles at Lovitt technologies

Hello. This is an anonymous communique by the cell that torched three cars at Lovitt Technologies on the morning of July Sth 2025.

Let there be no illusions as to what this was. This was not an accident nor thoughtless vandalism. This is a clear and serious threat. If you continue making weapons components of any kind there will be consequences. Consider this a warning.

After 21 months of an accelerated genocide against the Palestinian people by the illegitimate zionist entity, eight decades of “american” warmongering and imperialism, two and a half centuries of the most violent colonial oppression, ethnic cleansing, and murder of Aboriginal peoples across so-called “australia” – Lovitt Technologies has chosen its place at the intersection of these catastrophes.

Lovitt was the first “australian” producer of components for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets, proudly deployed in service to colonialism and imperialism by “america”, “israel”, “australia”, and “the uk”.

Lovitt was targeted because it is a bottleneck in the supply chain. This factory has the Makino T1 milling machine to make precision titanium and aluminum components. When it was acquired this was the only machine of its kind in so-called “australia”, and only one of ten in the world.

15 suppliers to the F-35 supply chain including Marand, Ferra, HTA, Levett AW Bell, Quickstep and Varley all depend on Lovitt, in addition to its subsidiary Electromold. Lovitt is also a supplier to BAE Systems, “israeli” weapons company Elbit Systems, and manufactures components to Boeing’s F-15, F-18, the so-called “chinook” helicopters, and the Ghost Bat an armed Al-powered drone.

Every worker in this supply chain is complicit. You have had years to contemplate the consequences of your actions. We will decide your fate, as you have decided the fate of millions.

For the past few months we have been closely watching you. We have your addresses. All the information we have about you will be distributed to our underground networks. Stop arming “israel” or else…

That the tools of colonisation and imperialism are manufactured on stolen Wurundjeri country is no accident. The illegitimate “australian” state only becomes a greater colonial and imperial power with its involvement in these supply chains. It is an affront to this sacred land and its true owners – who know genocide – that these weapons factories exist to continue another. Genocide begets genocide. And violence begets resistance.

We are behind the enemy lines of this genocide, and it is our duty to attack the belly of this colonial-imperialist beast at every opportunity. If you are watching this you can do what we have done.

Place half a slab of firestarter into each paper bag. Place one bag under the front and one under the back of the tire. Do this for both of the tires on the fuel cap side of the car. Be mindful of fingerprints and DNA. Set the bag on fire and run.

Every colony will burn.
Land back and liberation will grow from their ashes.

DEATH TO “ISRAEL”!
DEATH TO “AUSTRALIA”!
DEATH TO “AMERICA”!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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Berlin (Germany): 36 vehicles of war profiteers go up in smoke

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36 vehicles of war profiteers go up in smoke

[Note of Sans Nom: On the night of Monday to Tuesday, June 17, thirty-six vans belonging to war profiteers Telekom and Amazon went up in smoke in Berlin: 17 of the former’s vehicles in the Lichtenberg district, and 19 of the latter’s in the Britz district, within minutes of each other at around 3am. Here’s a translation of the communiqué on this anti-militaristic attack, which appeared on de.indymedia the same day]. Translated by Act for freedom now!

Anti-militaristic attack on army collaborators, Amazon and Telekom

Last night, several vans belonging to Amazon and Telekom were set on fire in the south (Britz district) and east (Lichtenberg district) of Berlin. Neither fences nor cameras were able to prevent anti-militarists from attacking these two army collaborators. Both companies benefit enormously from widespread militarization and wars. That’s why it’s appropriate to sabotage them.

Instead of a champagne reception, we chose to celebrate the opening of Amazon-Tower with the carcasses of burned out cars. But we don’t find this hideous building to be sickening only because of its impact on the neighborhood, but also because of all the other dirty tricks up the tech giant’s sleeve, and especially because of its active participation in war and genocide. Amazon’s servers and Cloud Services are used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to store the huge amounts of data resulting from mass surveillance of the Palestinian population. With its subsidiary, Amazons Web Services (AWS), Amazon is one of the IDF’s partners. In 2021, AWS, Google and Microsoft signed contracts for the IDF to use their servers (Project Nimbus). Since the Israeli invasion and the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip that has resulted, the IDF needs much greater computing capacity to employ its military AI programs (Lavender, Where’s Daddy?).

For this, it is mainly AWS servers that are used. The IDF and AWS collaborate very closely and consult each other on certain air strikes. This means that the annihilation and starvation of Gaza taking place before our very eyes, the planned forced displacement of the entire population, and the AI-based massacre and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them children, are calculated and stored on Amazon Web Services servers. But Amazon is also militarily active in several other fields: for example, as a major economic partner of the US military and as a generous sponsor of King Trump’s military parade last Saturday in Washington. State and Capital moving in the same direction towards fascism.

War, militarization, genocide and imperialist politics are all based on high technology today. To function, the state and global military system requires a highly complex technological infrastructure. In Germany, this is managed and developed by the state-owned Telekom. No war works without technology, and the German Federal Army benefits enormously from the militarization taking place worldwide. Telekom supports the Federal Army in the field of cyber-defense, and trains soldiers in IT. Companies like Telekom are profiting from rearmament, from the government’s 400 billion budget to make people “fit for war”, and from the reintroduction of military service.

In the same way, Telekom is making money as an IT supplier to border authorities, police and intelligence services, on the war against refugees on Europe’s external borders and on the increasing militarization at home. Nor have we forgotten that, they are one of the world’s largest telecoms providers thanks to its acquisition of the Greek telephone operator OTE under the Troika measures. Telekom was a major beneficiary of the wave of massive privatizations during the Greek crisis. For this reason, the company has already attracted a great deal of criticism, both here and elsewhere, becoming the target of numerous attacks.

In addition, Telekom is doing business with techno-fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink company through T-Systems. T-Systems offers the US and other countries a service that uses thousands of Starlink satellites to send text messages into space, despite zones without cell service. Elon Musk isn’t just a gleaming fascist, he’s the richest man in the world, and with his megalomaniac projects wants to colonize not just Earth, but also space and the planet Mars. In the race to see which macho man has the most satellites and the most power, he is closely followed by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, with his Project Kuiper satellite project (soon to include 3,200 satellites). These two companies now resemble non-state empires that also have ever-greater military importance: so Starlink not only supports the Ukraine and Israel in their military attacks with data – Musk also has the power to prevent these same attacks by not making Starlink data available. So, with their networks of technocrat companies, Musk and Bezos not only profit from war, they can now also determine its course.

We believe that today, as in the past, it is legitimate to attack the military’s collaborators. What’s surprising is not that anti-militarists are attacking military enterprises, but rather that not everyone who abhors war and mass murder is doing the same. What’s surprising is not that anti-militarists want to sabotage war, but that all those who are against militarization and rearmament don’t get active contributing to disarmament. What’s surprising is not that people are deeply affected by the genocide and war of extermination in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinian populations on the West Bank, but that half the world has apparently become accustomed to watching a far-right government commit genocide. What’s surprising is not that so many people are trying to stop this genocide, but that so few are trying to reduce to ashes the homes, businesses, warehouses and infrastructures that profit from and make possible this merciless bloodbath.

Whether in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Ukraine or Myanmar – it’s the dominant who profit from wars.

Sabotage and revolt are right, it is right to demand life against militarism and the technologies of death, just as it is right to demand and defend antimilitarism against nationalism.

It’s right to liberate life from militarism and war, from the state and patriarchy.

Against all wars and armies.

Love & strength for Maya on hunger strike and for all the others imprisoned in the Budapest affair, for Nanuk, Daniela, and the anarchists N and M.
A hug and fiery greetings to Athens, where Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris, Nikos and AK are being held prisoner in the Korydallos jail.
In memory of Kyriakos Ximitiri’s struggle

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Bouchemaine, Maine-et-Loire, France : Starry windows for Vinci!

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Last week, the French state implemented a huge police detachment to carry out raids on undocumented persons.

After being rounded up these people were taken to various CRA – Administrative Detention Centres. Without these detention centres, its abhorrent policy with the exiles would be more difficult to carry out.

A subsidiary of Vinci construction is about to participate in the construction of the CRA of Dijon.

So rage got us out for a starry night.

We smashed the windows of the Vinci Constructions premises in Bouchemaine in the Brunelleries industrial area. The subsidiaries GTM Ouest and SOGEA were also present.

Strength to Maja !

Fuck borders, jails and the world that goes with them.

– some anarchists –

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Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility for attacks on real estate agencies, Airbnb and My Flat buildings by Anarchists

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Claim of responsibility for attacks on real estate agencies, Airbnb and My Flat buildings

In a world where all goods, material and non-material, are slowly being commodified in the most brutal and cynical way, it was only a matter of time before we saw a coordinated effort by the State and capital to transform our basic needs into class privileges.

Alongside the privatisation of electricity and water supplies, we are witnessing the invasion of large real estate investors in the centre of Athens, who are trading properties at an uncontrolled pace and these are basically included in short-term rental platforms. This has resulted in thousands of people being displaced from their homes either due to inability to cope with rent increases, or through evictions, or forced relocations as the owner chooses selling or Airbnb.

In short, in an attempt to squeeze every possible perspective of profit out of our neighbourhoods, houses are being converted into tourist accommodation and of course the local city is being reshaped to adapt to the new needs of the neighbourhood… Hipster shops of all kinds are springing up all around to sell the neighbourhood lifestyle to eager consumers while we see our squares and parks being choked with their shops and tables.

A similar process is happening with student rooms, where, based on a classic state tactic of promoting privatisation, they degrade public structures to a tragic extent so that investors appear who build private dormitories and profit handsomely from students who stay in them or do not fight for public ones. In this context, companies such as My Flat are squeezing students and their families, renting out their rooms-coops in their private “student dormitories”, with their showcase “safe controlled” environment with security cameras and digital entry recording.

The State, of course, plays a very critical and clear role in all of the above. By choosing which neighbourhoods it wants to redevelop, by promoting development and gentrification that means nothing more than the displacement of the poorest strata to make room for the rich and tourists. By promoting the real estate market to foreign investors, in the name of national development and by enacting laws that pave the way for the auctions that are already taking place, they are creating the ideal conditions for the city to be transformed into an endless tourist park.

Whenever we hear about redevelopment, we know full well that it comes with control and surveillance. Police patrols in the housing estates are increasing significantly, while streets and squares are filled with security cameras to protect the new properties and ensure the smooth movement of capital.

In this context, we take responsibility for the attack with heavy tools and paint, as well as the writing of slogans between June 1-13:

• in the My Flat buildings in Daphne and Agios Ioannis
• at the real estate agency “Real Estate Now” in Kato Patisia
• at the real estate agency specializing in Airbnb “Dorothy’s Apartments” in Kypseli
• in the wake of Israeli interests in Neapoli Exarchia
• in the Airbnb luxury accommodation complex “The Rooster’s Egg” as well as the adjacent building that has just been renovated and is intended for the same use in Kypseli

We are not going to let our homes become hotels or our neighbourhoods become shopping malls. We are organizing class-based and from below in every neighbourhood and we are sabotaging in many ways any movement that tries to impose the sterile and dystopian reality of power on us.

Redevelopment means impoverished displaced people

Anarchists

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Interim President: Further Intan Jaya massacre shows West Papua needs MSG membership

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I am deeply saddened to learn of the murder of three West Papuans by Indonesian troops in Intan Jaya.

The deadly incident occurred on 18th June, after soldiers conducted raids in the Sugapa district. Isak Kobogau, aged 43, Alphon Kobogau, aged 20, and John Tipagau, aged 40, were all shot dead while sheltering in their yard near the village’s Catholic Church. Many villagers fled to the forest after the raids, adding to the 100,000 currently displaced across West Papua.

This is just one to the many military escalations that have killed dozens of West Papuan civilians – men, women, and children – in the last months alone. Many of these victims died in horrific ways, victims of the brutal and racist Indonesian occupation. Abner Karet was tortured to death by 40 soldiers. Alex Sondegau had a mental disability. Hetina Mirip was buried in a shallow grave and soldiers put bombs around her body, trying to kill her family when they found her. Yulius Abugau was only 16 years old.

These deaths demonstrate more clearly than any speech why all West Papuans need the ULMWP to upgrade its membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). More than ever before, West Papua needs a voice. We need a seat at the table to defend ourselves, our identity, our human rights, our very lives. Without it, we are finished.

I call on all Melanesians to support the MSG upgrading our membership status at the upcoming leaders’ summit. 

Benny Wenda
Interim President
ULMWP

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Benny Wenda: New massacre in Intan Jaya

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A massacre has taken place in Intan Jaya Regency, with at least four West Papuan civilians dead and seven missing.

 Victim buried in shallow grave

Fresh details are now emerging of the Indonesian military operation, which took place in Sugapa and Hitadipa districts on 13th May 2025. Soldiers shot indiscriminately at villagers during a clash with the TPNPB, who reported that they suffered four casualties – fourteen less than the eighteen dead claimed by Indonesia. Given Indonesia’s longstanding practice of labelling every civilian they murder at ‘KKB’ – armed criminal group, Indonesia’s euphemism for every Papuan who defends their land – this suggests that the true number of civilians killed may be closer to fifteen. The victims of the TNI’s brutality included a child, a 75-year-old elder, and two women, Hetina Mirip and Tapamina Tapani. Soldiers buried one of the women in a shallow grave to disguise their crime. To add to this depravity, they surrounded her grave with landmines to blow up any relatives who came near. These are the tactics the occupying regime uses to destroy my people. 

Over 1000 Intan Jaya villagers fled the chaotic violence, adding to the 87,000 West Papuans who are currently internally displaced, forced to live as refugees in the bush by countless Indonesian military operations. In a video, a Papuan elder is faced down by Indonesian soldiers in full military gear as she describes how her village has been occupied and destroyed by the TNI. Is she a security threat to Indonesia? How long will Pacific leaders entertain Indonesia while they kill their own people?

Intan Jaya refugees are victims of one of the world’s worst, and most secretive, humanitarian crises. More and more of our people are being forced to leave their homes to make way for ecocidal industrial projects. It is no coincidence that Intan Jaya is home to the Wabu Block, a gigantic gold mine spanning an area the size of Jakarta – in West Papua, business interests and military action are closely connected. 

Wabu Block is a reminder that West Papua is on the frontline of the global climate crisis. The sugarcane and bioethanol project in Merauke – the world’s largest deforestation project – will alone more than double Indonesia’s emissions. By supporting the ULMWP and our Green State Vision, by supporting these villagers in Intan Jaya through the West Papua boycott campaign, you are fighting for the future of planet earth. But I will say this directly: any climate action that does not include West Papua is pointless.

Indonesia’s current military escalation – in Puncak, Intan Jaya, Nduga, but also in non-Highlands Regencies like Meraukeand Raja Ampat – is designed to secure Indonesian and corporate interests in West Papua. The ULMWP calls on the world to condemn this massacre and stop investing in West Papua until Indonesia complies with its international obligations and facilitates the visit to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, demanded by over 110 UN member states. I also call on the Indonesian government to immediately allow the UN visit; to withdraw their military from the Highlands allow the IDPs to return home; and to facilitate an end to the violence through a self-determination referendum. 

Ultimately, this is the only path to peace in West Papua.

Benny Wenda
Interim President 
ULMWP

 Child victim of the Intan Jaya raids

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Increased Surveillance of Civilian Population by State and Private Individuals

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El Obse, made up of more than 20 local organizations seeking to document and expose attacks against human rights and territorial defenders in the state of Chiapas, denounced the use of surveillance technologies by both the State and criminal groups.

In its report, El Obse denounced the following trends and concerns: the expansion of megaprojects and their associated socio-environmental conflicts; the increase in gender-based violence; more restrictive immigration policies; human rights violations against migrants; and the militarization of the territory.

As well as the use of surveillance technologies by both the State and criminal groups, there is criminalization of social protest; and the stigmatization of youth, particularly indigenous peoples. Added to this is forced displacement without dignified conditions for return, attacks on journalists, and persistent impunity for violations committed by security forces. It should be noted that El Obse represents a collective effort to articulate a response to the rising violence in Chiapas. It arose from the urgent need to expose attacks against human rights defenders in a context where silence and impunity prevail.

Surveillance Networks

A week ago, the State Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Ministry of Public Security carried out an operation to remove illegal surveillance cameras in the municipality of Suchiate.

The equipment was removed from various points in the city, such as the Municipal Palace and strategic commercial locations. The cameras were made available to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, who may determine the appropriate course of action.

In January, the same authorities dismantled an organized crime operations center, disabling 30 video surveillance cameras installed at various strategic locations in the municipalities of Frontera Hidalgo and Suchiate.

The inter-institutional group dismantled 27 cameras installed on poles similar to those used by the C5 Urban Shield, located in various areas of the Frontera Hidalgo municipal seat.

On January 27th, the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) successfully dismantled video surveillance cameras in Teopisca. During the operation, five locations where these devices were installed were dismantled. Nine video surveillance cameras, three modems, fiber optic cabling, and power batteries were seized.

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Torture Policy as Method of Breaking Migrants is Exposed

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In the framework of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center spoke out against the growing macropolitics promoted by states in the region, which instrumentalizes immigration detention to punish and break the will of migrants, dissuade them from exercising their rights, and force them to abandon their migration and/or life plans.

The organization has witnessed how, through bilateral agreements and diplomatic, economic, and tariff pressures, Mexico and various Central and South American countries have been forced to comply with policies imposed by the United States government.

As an example, on January 21st, 2025, President Donald Trump, just hours after taking office, signed an avalanche of executive orders declaring the border and immigration situation a national emergency, militarizing the borders, and classifying gangs and individuals linked to organized crime as terrorists.

As a result, anti-immigration and anti-rights laws have followed; the Guantánamo Naval Base was opened as a detention center for migrants considered “high-priority criminals.” The first group was transferred on February 4th, and to date, it is unknown who is being detained there.

In addition, there is the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador. Despite the ongoing legal battle in the US regarding these deportations, several groups have been transferred and detained. The first was exposed in the media: handcuffed, shaved, and locked up without contact with the outside world or access to legal representation, while many families learned about it through the media.

Furthermore, the United States has funded programs and agreements with countries such as Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama to curb migration.

For the Center, the situation is no different in Mexico, as people on the move continue to suffer serious human rights violations in immigration detention.

“Despite the State’s attempts to disguise their prison-like nature with euphemisms such as ‘shelters’ or ‘accommodation spaces,’ these centers continue to operate under an architecture of punitive control that currently goes unnoticed by the public,” it explained.

It also reported that in these spaces, torture manifests itself in multiple acts that, taken together, constitute torture environments, such as: disproportionate use of force, sleep deprivation, spoiled food, lack of personal hygiene and menstrual management supplies, lack of privacy, lack of communication with the outside world, absence of interpreters, denial of medical care, sexual abuse, rape, forced isolation, and even physical punishment.

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Fire against the Bundeswehr! – Arson Attack on Vehicles of the German army in Soltau (Lower Saxony, Norhtern Germany)

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Fire against the Bundeswehr! – Arson Attack on Vehicles of the German army in Soltau

War and genocide are the most brutal means in the fight for control over resources, territories, and people. They are always accompanied by the presumption to justify the mass destruction of human lives, displacement, collective traumatization, and unleashed destruction.

This presumption is at the core of the logic of war we are confronted with in our context and the increasing militarization, which is concretely expressed in Germany’s active participation in various wars – for example, as one of the largest arms exporters worldwide.
It forms the basis of Germany’s “raison d`etat” to support the genocide in Gaza and the inhumane politics of the Israeli state against the Palestinian population.
It is also openly reflected in “Operation Prosperity Guardian” – NATO bombarding western trade routes in Yemen.

In the deadly proxy war in Sudan, where tens of thousands are dying and millions are fleeing, largely unnoticed by the „Western world“.
And it is embedded in the propaganda of “military readiness” here, which has prevailed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We are witnessing an impressive revival of Cold War rhetoric.
A propaganda that leads to military rearmament on a massive scale in a very short time and the militarization and takeover of various civilian and societal structures by the Bundeswehr.

It will eventually lead to the reinstatement of (compulsory) military service sooner or later.

Fire against Liberal Coldness!
The condition for a societal climate in
which all these atrocities can be accepted as inevitable, as
unavoidable, is the dehumanization of those who must suffer through war, genocide, and displacement.
It is not just about a psychological mechanism to prevent losing one’s mind in the face of these horrors. In the devaluation and dehumanization of a large part of the global population, the continuity of colonial thinking and actions is revealed.

This brought about, through war and subjugation, the dominance of the so-called Western world and bourgeois society. War and subjugation remain the means by which this dominance is maintained.
Ignorance towards the killing and domination of people is widespread throughout German society. We are witnessing a version of “reason” that, cold and unempathic, allows human lives to be devalued as “others” and separates this from one’s own existence. In this way, the status quo of a society where the dead are walked over to secure one’s own prosperity is upheld.

The militaristic brutality is in full swing! Fire of Solidarity!

These flames are for those who fight against their
dehumanization and for their survival.
These flames are also for those who doubt, who cannot remain calm in the face of these circumstances, who do not want to comply, obey, and function. For those who dream and fight for a different, more solidaristic world without states, borders, and militaries.

These flames are for Maja, who has been on hunger strike since June 5th in prison in Budapest, charged for consistent antifascism – your
determination and solidarity are our drive and inspiration! You are not alone!

These flames are for Daniela Klette, imprisoned and currently in court for her revolutionary history, attitude, and practice – your story is part of our shared future!

These flames are for those who escape state control and prosecution, and continue our common path – love and strength!
We are right in the middle, we are part of the heart of the beast.
And
we all must continually decide what role we want to play in this bloody cycle.

We have decided to contribute to the infarction.
The Bundeswehr will intervene in our lives in the coming years and become a relevant player again in the authoritarian, patriarchal shaping of society. Let’s attack it on all levels!
On the night of June 5th to 6th, we set fire to 5 heavy Bundeswehr vehicles at a workshop site on Carl-Benz-Strasse in Soltau.
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ps:
The German press about the arson:
Suspected Arson Attack in Soltau: Bundeswehr Trucks Damaged
According to the police, six Bundeswehr trucks were set on fire in
Soltau on the night of June 5th to 6th. An anonymous claim of
responsibility has been posted online. The police are currently
verifying its authenticity.
The anonymous letter condemns global rearmament, militarization, and wars. It was published on left-wing platforms on the internet. The police and public prosecutor’s office are now investigating whether the claim is genuine and who is behind it. The State Security is also involved in the investigation. According to the police, the six
Bundeswehr trucks were set on fire at a workshop site. A fence was cut open beforehand. One truck was completely destroyed by the fire, and five others were severely damaged. The police estimate the damage to be in the “high six-digit range.”

Police Seek Witnesses for Suspected Arson Attack
A similar incident occurred in March 2018 in Soltau (Heidekreis
district). Two Bundeswehr trucks were set on fire at the same private workshop site on Carl-Benz-Straße. At that time, an antimilitarist group claimed responsibility. Witnesses who can provide information about the current suspected arson attack are asked to contact the Soltau police.
(source:
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/lueneburg_heide_unterelbe/Mutmasslicher-Brandanschlag-in-Soltau-Bundeswehr-Lkw-beschaedigt,bundeswehrfahrzeuge100.html

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