Anarchist Federation (french) / IAF - Biblioteca Terra Livre : No to police cooperation ! Long live international solidarity !

At the end of 2013, the French police, the CRS (Republican Security Company), went to 
train police officers of the ?Shock Battalion? (Batalh?o de Choque - BPCHq ) of the 
Military Police of Rio de Janeiro after the demonstrations that took place in Brazil some 
months ago. ---- The purpose of the exchange between the two police forces was to exchange 
information about how to react during riots, acts of vandalism, and to control violent 
groups, and other registered depredations in view of events that might take place during 
the World Football Cup and the Olympics in 2016. ---- The French police seems to be 
specialized in managing protest demonstrations and in crowd control. ---- The French 
government has already demonstrated in the past its haste to bring a repressive and 
military aid :

- During ?Operation Condor?, which consisted of a preventive
counter-revolution in favor of the South American dictators in the 1970s,
thousands of political opponents were killed or disappeared. The French
police brought its ?expertise? (torture, techniques of counter-guerrilla,
controlling neighborhoods) inherited from the war in Algeria. This has
resulted, in particular, in the activities of ?death squads?.

- More recently, at the beginning of the revolution in Tunisia, the French
government offered its services to intervene and to assist the regime in
suppressing the protest movements. France has also sent police equipment
to Ben Ali.

- In 2010, the French police intervened in Egypt with officers of public
law enforcement and state security, in order to teach them ?crowd
management and major events?.

- Not to mention the military interventions in Africa and elsewhere...

Police States will do everything to stifle and suppress the protest
movements which appear in Brazil, Mexico, North Africa and elsewhere. In
Brazil, the amounts of money involved in the huge projects of the World
Cup clash with the reality of a population fighting for these rights, for
greater equality and social justice.

Our response must be the construction of actual solidarity so as to face
police repression, misery and exploitation.

We condemn in the strongest terms these repressive policies and invite all
libertarian organizations to join the protest movements in order to offer
them assistance and logistical and technical support, to disseminate their
actions and to establish networks of solidarity against police repression.

Signatures : Anarchist Federation (french), Biblioteca Terra Livre
(Brasil, S?o Paulo)
New signatures : International of Anarchist Federations (IAF), ...

[SOURCE : http://federation-anarchiste.org/spip.php?article1221]