In Guadeloupe, the violence of the gendarmerie with complete impunity! ---- On
November 21, 2020, Claude Jean-Pierre, a 67-year-old resident of Deshaies,Guadeloupe, was arrested by two gendarmes. Twelve days later, he died inhospital, after being admitted with a double fracture of the cervical, one ofwhich compressed the spinal cord, and several hematomas on the face. Longdemanded by his relatives, the video of the arrest, entirely filmed by a CCTVcamera, ends up leaking, six months later. The recording, which lasts abouttwenty minutes, "highlights the inconsistencies in the statements" of the twogendarmes, says Sarah Aristide, member of the group of five lawyers representingthe victim's family. Indeed, in the image, the arrest seems to begin calmly.Then, the two soldiers in uniform abruptly extract the sexagenarian from his grayutility vehicle, which is rocking under the violence of the maneuver. They thenleave it in direct sunlight, lying on the asphalt for long minutes.Finally, the public prosecutor of Basse-Terre requested on February 5, 2023 adismissal in the context of the judicial investigation opened against X formanslaughter. "Throughout the procedure, nothing prevented the public prosecutorfrom asking the investigating judge to request an indictment", contradicts SarahAristide, member of the collective of 5 lawyers who represents the family of thevictim. The case, two months after the final dismissal pronounced in thechlordecone case, could cause additional distrust among the population. "There isa huge gap that is widening between the people of Guadeloupe and the Frenchstate," said Jean-Jacob Bicep, member of the Guadeloupe collective against theviolence of the gendarmes. In Guadeloupe, this case is compared to the death ofGeorge Floyd in the United States. To be continued!Source: The WorldParis March 11, 2023: Surge of police violenceKicking people on the ground, truncheons at all costs and without even trying tochallenge, journalists insulted and beaten, LBD point-blank in the direction ofthe face, loaded union procession, grenades thrown into the crowd... ThisSaturday will have marked a new escalation in the violence of the police systemagainst the demonstrators and will have shown the real face of the system of thenew prefect of Paris, Laurent Nunez, so much vaunted by the media. Despite thiswave of police violence, the demonstrators remained united and united to thepoint of defeating the repressive system several times. Let it be said, it is notby breaking the thermometer that they will lower the temperature!Source: Brains not availableArms sales: France confirms its third place in the worldThe Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) published its reportfor 2022 on March 13. The Stockholm institute favors periods of five years tobetter describe market trends. Between 2018 and 2022, the respective weight ofthe three major exporters - United States, Russia and France - changedconsiderably compared to the 2013-2017 period. The Americans have gained marketshare and now hold 40%. The Russians fell from 22% to 16%, and France narrowedits gap with them, from 7.1% to 11%, far ahead of China (5%) and Germany (4%).This is the end of the Russian-American duopoly, which has long dominated thesector. Indeed the gap between France and Russia should be further reduced, sincethe first has "many more arms orders in progress" than the second. France's majorcustomers are India, Qatar, Egypt and Indonesia. Let us recall here that France'sarms sales represent 200,000 direct jobs. The global arms trade exceeds 100billion dollars (93.1 billion euros) per year, according to an estimate by Sipri,a small part of the 2,000 billion in military spending in 2021.Source: The WorldPrisons: After new prisons... better paid guards!The "matonnerie" is the 3rd security force of France and as Eric Dupont-Morettisays "the Republic must be grateful"! Before the opening of new prisons (See CA328: "building prisons to curb crime is like building cemeteries to curb anepidemic") there would already be a shortage of guards; 700 in 2022 if we are tobelieve the national prison union-FO. The recruiting pool is dwindling. The Statehas found a solution: The agents currently in category C will now be category Bcivil servants and the officers will move to category A. In fact, their statuteswill be aligned with that of the cops and this decision would be justified by newmissions other as the opening and closing of doors, searches, ... They would nolonger be "key holders" but "supervisors-actors", an essential cog in themechanism of reintegration and the fight against recidivism. The State will haveto settle on the fact that to be a category B civil servant, you must have abaccalaureate, but today, nearly 40% of guards do not have it. Well, thatshouldn't be a problem! But who will replace the C category guards to carry thekeys? Contractors!Source: The WorldThey are filmed but do not smile!In the premises of the Dassault Aviation factory in Anglet, employees arecontesting the installation of new surveillance cameras, some of which aredirected towards their workstations. The representatives of the CGT and the CFDTseized the Labor Inspectorate and the National Commission for Computing andLiberties (CNIL). To be in order, the cameras "must not film the employees ontheir workstation", but be confined to the entrances, exits, traffic lanes andplaces of storage of equipment. In the past, the CNIL has already financiallysanctioned companies that refused to comply with this framework. A questionarises: Aren't these cameras snitches to thwart excesses that could take placeduring future social movements?Source: mediabask.euswatergate episode 3In February, a meeting of anti-basin activists was organized in a neighborhoodcenter in Poitiers, as well as a conference on the fight against racism. What wasthe surprise of the most observant among us, to discover a surveillance device inthe parking lot opposite! In a car with tinted windows, a camera placed on astand pointed directly towards the entrance to the premises. We see once again,after the discovery in recent months of a camera in the home of an activist and aGPS tracking device under a vehicle, that intelligence resources are deployed inabundance, posing once again the question of the ownership of this material andthe legal framework in which it was installed. The agricultural world still hasstate means (the Demeter cell) to spy on activists, but despite the recentphysical and violent attacks including Paul François, a farmer himself known forhaving won his lawsuit against Monsanto, the state does not still does nothing toprotect those who want to protect the Living!Source: No Bassaran press releaseRémi Fraisse: 46,000 euros, the price of a life according to justiceOn October 26, 2014, in the morning, the body of the young 21-year-oldenvironmentalist was found, killed by the explosion of a grenade from thegendarmerie. An "offensive" ammunition, composed of TNT. Throughout the nightthat has just passed, dozens of grenades and rubber bullets have been thrown at afew clusters of environmental protesters who defend water resources. Despite thefierce fight of the young man's family, this state crime remains unpunished. 9years later, no policeman has been convicted, and none ever will be. Criminalremedies are exhausted!In the fall of 2021, the administrative court of Toulouse, seized by the family,admitted the responsibility of the State. Unlike criminal proceedings, thisprocedure does not attack one or more individuals, for example the grenadeshooter or his hierarchy, but an institution, namely the State. This courtnevertheless recognized that the institutions are "civilly liable for damages anddamages" that night. The magistrates called it "no-fault liability". Ahalf-hearted judgment The height of horror, the court then underlined that therewas "a culpable recklessness committed by the victim such as to partiallyexonerate the State from its responsibility". Clearly, a person killed ormutilated in a demonstration "a little looked for it", since it was there. Shejust had to stay home.The family appealed, and the final judgment of the whole affair has just beenrendered, in February 2023, 9 years after the events. The court confirms the"no-fault liability" of the State, which will have to compensate the family ofRémi Fraisse for "moral damage". 46,000 euro. On what basis? With what scale?Mystery. The judges consider that Rémi was "non-violent" in the face of thegendarmes but that he "deliberately went to the scene of the clashes", and thathe therefore committed "recklessness" which makes him co-responsible for hisdeath. . The harm is "shared" between the victim and the state.Source: France 3 and France infoThe "reminder to the law" is replaced by "probationary criminal warning"On January 1, the new "probationary penal warning" came into force. It replacesthe famous "reminder to the law", in force since 1999, with a few important details:Only the prosecutor, or his "delegates", can pronounce a Probatory CriminalWarning (APP) while a Reminder of the Law (RAL) could be addressed by a JudicialPolice Officer;The signature of the APP is conditioned by the fact that the defendantacknowledges having committed the acts of which he is accused at the time of theappearance before the delegate of the trial unlike the RALIt is, as for the RAL, an abandonment of the proceedings (therefore noregistration in the criminal record), or rather a deferment of 2 years (it was 5years with an RAL): If nothing happens within two years; classificationconfirmed; if the person is again the subject of an arrest, the proc "may"relaunch proceedings dating back to the first APP.The APP cannot intervene with regard to a person who has already been sentencedor following an offense of violence against persons or an offense committedagainst a person holding public authority (among others: the cops) or vested witha public elective mandate (the elected officials). On the civil level, theprocedure suspends the prescription of the public action, which possibly allowsthe victim to claim damages. In addition, this warning can only be issued if thevictim has been compensated or his damage has been repaired. The APP is quitesimply blackmail: if you agree to admit having committed the acts of which youare accused, the prosecution is dropped... But even without prosecution, theprosecutor has different weapons of coercion. The traps of the APP are more orless those of the RAL, only worse: "Ban on appearance" in certain areas for amaximum of 6 months: practice to punish a demonstrator for having gone to protestin the street;"Citizen contribution to a victim support association". Please note, this is nota fine: if you pay, there is no longer any possible appeal, no dispute, noappeal! We are talking about several hundred euros, and you should know that theassociation in question, like a good crook, comes to claim the wheat insistentlyfrom the first days after the signature of the Papelard.Impose on the person to "divest himself of the object of the offense for thebenefit of the State", this may be the telephone if among the offenses there isthe refusal to give his pin code, without the possibility of recovering it It isnot seized to be exploited, since the proceedings are dropped, so it is ratherpoorly disguised racketeering The person may be asked to carry out, at his ownexpense, a "citizenship course" association, or worse, a police station!It's all a bluff: you can very well leave without signing the document. But readit carefully, to see if the APP is poured straight, without anything else, or ifyou have a ban or an amount to pay in addition. If you don't sign, the DPR willbe pissed, but whatever. The anti-rep coord and its lawyers continue to adviseyou not to sign, or even to respect these additional measures: not having beenformally judged, no restriction can be imposed on you, especially not a ban oncoming and going. . Same for possible harassment by the "victim supportassociation": ignore calls and emails. What are we risking? That the prosecutorreopen the charges he had decided to drop. Nothing else.Now, when we have been in police custody for 1 or 2 days, plus 20 hours spent inthe courthouse depot, and we learn that we finally escape immediate appearance,we can easily let ourselves be lulled by the sirens of the DPR . Continue toremain silent, do not sign anything, do not give in to pressure, take the paperthat is handed to you, and leave calmly. It seems naïve to say it like that, butto be truly cleared by the courts, that is to say released, you must first bejudged. But a warning is not a judgment. Ditto if you are offered a "composition"or a "criminal order" (with a "small" fine at the end of the course), as if itwere a gift: it is a way of sanctioning you without judgment. So might as wellnot cooperate, no offense to the trial: The only risk being to have a trial, itat least allows you to have access to the prosecution file, otherwise you cannotcalmly prepare your defense.Source: Extract from a text by the Coordination against repression and policeviolence Paris-IDFhttp://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article3727_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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