(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Call for active solidarity with those of NDDL February 22 movement (fr, pt)

We now approach a major victory for the struggle against the dealer manager and planning 
of the territory. And that, among other things, because those who resist have managed to 
remain uni.es despite desperate to demonize the anger that is expressed on February 22 
attempts. However, arrests, prosecutions and convictions raining down on opponents . ---- 
The airport project Notre Dame des Landes sees every day more fragile. The demonstration 
of 22 February saw an unprecedented mobilization and once again demonstrated the strength 
of the movement with 50,000 people, 500 tractors and 67 cars from all over France. In the 
aftermath, the declarations and agreements renewed the fact not start work before 
exhaustion currently filed against the airport (1), could act his swan song.

When Valls is ready to propose abandoning the project to catch the Greens (2), we can 
already say that the government does not believe anymore. Anyway, out of the circles, the 
movement is more prepared than ever to prevent it from starting work and any new wave of 
expulsion.

We now approach a major victory for the struggle against the dealer manager and planning 
of the territory. And it is, among other things, because those who stand on the ground 
were able to stay uni.es, despite desperate to demonize the anger that is expressed on 
February 22 attempts.

In this context of defeat for pro-airports, a series of arrests (3) nevertheless came a 
day after the municipal elections in full Valls appointment as Prime Minister.

This is an attempt to revenge unfolds that requires broad support, but that does not 
undermine the determination of the movement.

After the grandiose announcements about ongoing investigations, the result is, moreover, 
not very impressive. It was in the end a sample of a few people who, like hundreds of 
others that day, it may be thrown a few shots at the police and are also accused of 
having, like tens of thousands of others, "participated in an armed mob" . These were so 
good suspect.es profil?.es on 9 arr?t?.es, two were almost immediately rel?ch?.es 
unanswered, one of which was not even in Nantes during the event. 4 have already gone 
immediate appearance, and 1'autre be tried in a few months. For the first who have not 
been able to prepare their defense, despite the heavy sentences are empty files: 4 months 
suspended, 4 months in prison, five months and finally a firm-year prison term deposit and 
a ban all manifest in Nantes and Notre Dame des Landes for one to three years.

If the operation is poor, these arrests are nonetheless serious. First, because a comrade 
go to jail and many others may go in the coming months. They are also serious because they 
represent an attempt to gain acceptance of new clean criminalize more repressive measures 
in the future, all social struggles and all-are those who are actually barriers to 
large-scale projects.

As with activists Val Susa (4), the workers of PSA or Contis (5), the so-called terrorist 
Lab?ge (6) Tarnac (7) or insurgents beautiful (8) Villiers, the State facing what he 
considers as a threat, deploys riot police and media means to criminalize the movement. 
The crisis and calls for denunciation in the media seek to return those targeted in small 
boxes foils of "cracker" isolated or "terrorist" band organized and build a well-defined 
enemy within and outside the movement . Valls, it is necessary to believe in the fiction 
of the "black block" those manipulators and marginal groups that intervene in the 
struggles to satisfy their desires nihilists. They must isolate, stigmatize, divide 
because the reality of a broad and multifaceted struggle, the possibility of solidarity 
between various tactics is unacceptable and dangerous for them. It is this reality that 
has defeated the Caesar operation and making them difficult if the idea of a return to the 
area.

The method used: Stop weeks after a demonstration of people at home, without the act on 
the basis of images, photos, videos or confessions extracted is relatively new in this 
country (9). And it is this method that active solidarity must neutralize. The method is 
primarily intended to distill sustainable afraid to participate in events, especially if 
it is possible that they are not a docile parade and a tension emerges there. Recall that 
as a major catalyst clashes 22 February has undoubtedly been the Prefect will prevent the 
event takes place and the transformation of the heart of Nantes in the red zone. In a 
context where the prefecture announced its intention to resume faster evictions and house 
demolitions on Zad, as well as protected species. Also keep in mind that, despite the 
media-political fiction of "the devastated city of indiscriminate way" , most acts of 
sabotage that occurred that day were focused on carrying the airport project and their 
minions, or actors other major projects such as the Val di Susa. Although 50,000 attendees 
have not participated, although certain.es manifestant.es were angoiss?.es situation or 
critical of these acts, it is undeniable that thousands of people have supported or 
participated more actively the momentum to go downtown despite police barricades, and 
quite a few others have applauded and smiled at the vision gear destruction Vinci fire. 
Police responded the same day at this affront to blow rubber bullets or grenades, she 
maimed for life and seriously injured dozens of manifestant.es (10)

But that was not enough, failing to judge the crowd, the repressive lottery falls 
afterwards a few isolated individuals.

This wave of arrest could be repeated. It is now all-es those who, on February 22, could 
not bear to be impeding their right to manifest, which are es-insurgent against police 
violence and repression, and beyond to all those who care about the same opportunity to 
fight, organize, leaving no persons charged after this day only face justice or behind bars.

First signatories:

- The occupant of the es-Zad, groups and individuals fighting against the airport and his 
world.

- The meeting of the inhabitants of the Zad-es of Thursday, April 10, 2014

- The Carila (Anti-Repression Committee Deriving anti-Airport Fight)

The OCL joins the call.

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Additional information:

A support committee Enguerrand, sentenced to one year firm was established with his family 
and loved ones - contact: soutien.enguerrand (@) riseup.net
A demonstration of solidarity should be organized quickly.

The Carila (anti-repression resulting from the anti-airport control panel) provides legal 
and material support charged. You can send donations for legal costs and lawyer. Support 
Committee Indicted es Le Gue 44220 Cou?ron

Of injured Feb. 22 filed complaints for "voluntary violence with weapons" . A call to the 
wounded on February 22 was launched.http://22fevrier2014nantes.blogspot.fr/

The assembly of the movement signed a joint statement inspired by a text NDDL 22 
Committee: http://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?artic ...

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Notes:
(1) This position has already been announced by Ayrault following the demonstration of 22 
February, and the urgent calls Auxiette, regional president, to expel immediately Zad. It 
has been confirmed in writing by an agreement between the PS and EELV between the two 
rounds of municipal and recovery by S?gol?ne Royal during his arrival at the Ministry of 
Ecology.
(2) Emmanuelle Cosse, boss of EELV said April 5 national council of his party had proposed 
that Valls their "half-words, the end of NDDL" so that they remain in government.
(3) people had been arrested and charged during the event and the week followed. For more 
information and tips on arrests March 31: http://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?artic ...
(4) On 9 December 2013, the political police on the orders of parquet Turin and Milan, 
jailed Chiara, Mattia, Niccolo and Claudio, to "attack purpose of terrorism." They and are 
accused es taking part in an attack on the construction of the TAV during which equipment 
was sabotaged. They face up to 20 years in prison. This is far from the first time in 
Italy that this type of anti-terrorist procedure falls on anti-TAV activists
(5) End of 2012 and early 2013, faced with the announced closure of the PSA plant of 
Aulnay-sous-Bois, various qualified shares "militaristic" by management and reported by 
the main trade unions have been carried out by workers in struggle: sequestration 
frameworks, masked processions and sabotage inside the factory riots. .. In April 2009, as 
part of a struggle hard to face a social plan, 200 workers sacked Continental 
Sub-prefecture of Compiegne. 6 of them will be charged for these facts.
(6) 05/08/11, ten people had entered the premises of the judicial protection of youth, 
Lab?ge near Toulouse, to protest against the incarceration minor due to the suppression of 
a revolt in EPM and smelly liquid spilled on computers. November 15, 2011, after months of 
investigation, several houses and squats were raided and 4 Toulouse found themselves 
incarcerated with heavy charges. http://pourlaliberte.noblogs.org/
(7) On November 11, 2008 9 people are arrested and charged with "conspiracy and damages in 
relation to a terrorist enterprise", accused of having participated in the sabotage of a 
catenary TGV. See: http://www.soutien11novembre.org/
(8) On 25 November 2007, and Lakhmany Moushin, 16 and 15, die hit by a police patrol. The 
city rises for two days. Months later, people are arrested following a public call to 
denounce the government, and are condemned to heavy sentences.
(9) If these methods are fairly new in France, they are unfortunately common in other 
European countries . And following the riots that have taken over Tottenham and several 
English cities in August 2011 after a police killing hundreds of people were arrested in 
post on the basis of video images and calls for denunciation in the days, weeks and months.
(10) The police had already unleashed violence during evictions of Zad against in November 
2012. Among other things, November 24 during an operation in the forest Rohanne, where a 
hundred people were injured, some seriously, by rubber bullets and grenades.

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