Counter-information bulletin – January 2014

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01/01/2014

Russia: Εxcavator and bulldozer torched in Moscow by International Revolutionary Front/Earth Liberation Front.

Switzerland: Attack with paint against a police station in Zurich.

Belarus: Quarry excavator torched in Krasnoselsk by Friends of Freedom FAI/IRF.

02/01/2014

Greece: School bus owned by Doukas Educational Facilities torched in Agios Eleftherios area, in Athens. The action was claimed by the group Armed Teenagers.

Chile: Attempted bombing of two police precincts in Santiago by Friends of Gunpowder.

Switzerland: Attack with paintbombs against branches of the banks UBS and Credit Suisse and a police station in Bern.

04/01/2014

Greece: Slogans painted in solidarity with Spyros Mandylas, Andreas Tsavdaridis and FAI/IRF in Komotini.

05/01/2014

Mexico: Fallon Poisson, Amelie Pillierst and Carlos Lopez Martin arrested and accused for the attack, that took place at 10 a.m. of the same evening, against the facilities of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) and a NISSAN dealership with stones and molotov cocktails in Mexico city, causing damage to buildings and several cars.

Spain: Incediary attack against church in Seville, in solidarity with Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar.

06/01/2014

Italy: Intervention with posters and spray-painted slogans against vivisectors in Milan by ALF.

Italy: Incendiary attack against mechatronics facility in Rovereto.

07/01/2014

Greece: Solidarity intervention with posters for Spyros Mandylas and Andreas Tsavdaridis in Corfu.

Greece: Banner drop in solidarity with Spyros Mandylas and Andreas Tsavdaridis in Veria.

United Kingdom: Bombing attack at Vinci’s offices in Bristol. The action was claimed by Informal Anarchist Federation (F.A.I.) Insurgents: Bristol North.

08/01/2014

United Kingdom: Incediary attack at a KIA car dealership in Bath. The action was claimed by Perennial Resistance ELF – FAI.

09/01/2014

Canada: Incidiary attack against an HSBC branch in Vancouver, in solidarity with Fallon Poisson, Amelie Pillierst and Carlos Lopez Martin.

Indonesia: “Phoenix” project, Act #10, ATM blown up in Malang, eastern Java, by Sebastian O. Seguel Cell – International Conspiracy for Revenge/Informal Anarchist Federation.

Argentina: Incediary attack against Fiat car dealership, which resulted in the torching of 10 cars, in Buenos Aires. The attack was claimed by Friends of the Earth/Informal Anarchist Federation.

11/01/2014

Spain: A solidarity event for long-term anarchist prisoners took place in La Gatonera squat, in Madrid. The event was organized by the translation and counter-information project Contra Info and former and present anarchist prisoners participated with their letters (1,2).

Canada: Gathering in solidarity with Fallon Poisson, Amelie Pillierst and Carlos Lopez Martin outside the Mexican consulate in Montreal.

17/01/2014

U.S.A.: Police cars attacked in Bloomington, Indiana, in solidarity with Fallon Poisson, Amelie Pillierst and Carlos Lopez Martin.

Italy: Two vehicles owned by Emir SPA torched, in the quarry of Verucchio.

15/01/2014

Greece: Examination of the request of the sentence interruption by anarchist prisoner Babis Tsilianidis (a request in order for the comrade to be released until his trial in the court of appeal about the robbery in AHEPA hospital). His request was rejected and he remains imprisoned in D wing, in Korydallos prison.

18/01/2014

Russia: Birds liberated from private zoo in Moscow by ALF. This action marks the reactivation of ALF in Russia.

20/01/2014

Mexico: Anarchist Mario López was arrested upon his weekly appearance in court for giving his signature as part of the conditions imposed for his conditional release. He was interrogated and then detained following an arrest warrant for violation of the federal law of firearms and explosives, concerning the events of June 27th, 2012. He was released on 24/o1 on bail.

Brazil: Attack against a power substation in Balneário Camboriú by Movement of Civil Disobedience (MDC) – Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI).

Greece: 6 members of CCF recieved an one-year disciplinary sentence for obstracting and immobilizing a prison guard and 30 points (inner disciplinary point system for prisons) for beating another prisoner.

21/01/2014

Chile: Arrest of anarchist Tamara Sol Farías Vergara, who is accused of having barged into a branch of Banco Estado on 21 January, shot a security guard four times, shouting “Revenge!” and then, left the bank on a bike, taking the cop’s gun and leaving the one, with which she shot him, behind. Some time later, Tamara appeared at a police station, pretending that she wanted to declare the theft of her bicycle. When the cops tried to search her, she tried to catch the gun, but she was stopped and arrested.

Israel: McDonald’s windows shattered in Tel-Aviv by ALF.

U.S.A.: Kevin Olliff was sentenced to 2,5 years of imprisonment for the possession of tools the prosecution claimed were intended to be used to “burglarize” the largest fox farm in the U.S.

Mexico: Demonstration in solidarity with Fallon Poisson, Amelie Pillierst and Carlos Lopez Martin in Mexico city.

U.S.A.: Eco-capitalist cooperative Bloomingfoods sabotaged in Indiana.

22/01/2014

Lithuania: Two butcher shops and a fur shop sabotaged in Vilna by ALF.

26/01/2014

Spain: Francisco Solar was transferred in Codoba prison.

27/01/2014

U.S.A.: Rebecca Rubin was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in a federal prison in U.S.A. Rebecca turned herself in in 2012 after being in clandestinity for 7 years and has claimed responsibility for 4 action carried out by ALF and ELF cells, in 1998 and 2001.

29/01/2014

France: Attack against the police station of Les Lilas, in Paris from the group Gang of pissed off rhinos.

Other news:

Switzerland: Eco-anarchist Marco Camenisch went on hunger strike from 30/12/2013 until at least 26/01/2014, in order to protest against his mistreatment by prison’s staff and as a contribution to the global anticapitalist and anarchist struggle.

Greece: Τhe release request, issued by comrade Spyros Mandylas after the passing of the six-month pre-trial detention, has been rejected. We remind that the pre-trial detention limit is 18 months.

Greece: The last ten days of January, the greek state initiated a repressive operation against anarchists, which involved house searches and arrests in Athens and Thessaloniki. No one of the arrested was detained, but the operation is still going on.

Zines:

Italy: “Conto alla rovescia”, pamphlet with texts from the anarchist robbers of Velvedo and other robberies, published by anarchist editions Sole Nero.

United Kingdom: Issue #39 of the anarchist insurrectional zine Dark Nights.

Greece: Issue #4 of Nihilistic March for the Diffusion of Fire and Chaos zine from Greece.

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by Inter Arma