413 billion euros for the army! ---- Macron announced on January 20 that France
would devote 413 billion euros to its armies for the next seven years (See CA 328under this heading). It is the military programming law which sets this budgetand which will be voted on in Parliament in mid-May. ---- The bill was releasedon April 4 and we know a little more about the main lines of the distribution ofthis "crazy dough" even if this project has not yet been voted on. ---- Thenuclear weapon will be modernized, everything suggests that it will cost theFrench at least 58 billion euros by 2030. This modernization is in "totalcontradiction with the spirit and the letter of the Treaty nuclearnon-proliferation (NPT), and still opposes the Treaty on the Prohibition ofNuclear Weapons (TIAN), a new international standard adopted by 122 States withinthe United Nations", reacted Jean-Marie Collin, Director ICAN France (Frenchbranch of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons). But Macron andcertainly the Parliament sit on it!Another costly project that raised ethical questions a few years ago: equippingthe French armies with killer drones. Let us recall here that the French armyused for the first time in Mali, on December 21, 2019, these killer drones. Fouryears later, all ethical debate has disappeared, it is now a question of"technological leaps" not to be missed! The French army will equip itself with"tactical drones", "contact drones" and "teleoperated munitions" - a modest termto designate what is more commonly known as "kamikaze drones". The latter "willprovide performance, precision and lethality with a favorable cost/effectivenessratio", specifies the bill. In total, five billion euros will be devoted toequipping drones and land robots.Military programming is not only about arms and finances: it is also about humanresources. In this regard, the executive has a credo: if it wants to win wars inthe future, France must "increase its moral forces". This is how the bill detailsa series of measures which, taken end to end, paint the - worrying - image of amilitarized society from college to retirement home: doubling the volume of theoperational reserve to reach 105,000 volunteers in 2035, maximum age of servicefor reservists increased to 70 years (even 72 for certain specialties), creationof a system of "military apprentices" (who, despite their status as minors, couldwork at night), requisitioning of goods and people facilitated in the event of a"foreseeable" (and not "immediate") threat to the Nation. The Universal NationalService (SNU) is not budgeted in the bill - but it is not abandoned for all that!We will come back!Source: MediapartMore than 120,000 injured in demonstrations since 2015 worldwide!The medical association Physicians for Human Rights (an NGO created in 1986,which documents and advocates against mass atrocities and serious human rightsviolations in the world, in connection with medicine), the International Networkof Civil Rights Organizations (Inclo) and the British Omega Foundation have gonethrough the medical reports drawn up, among other things, during the yellow vestsmovement in France, anti-racist Black Lives Matter parades or pro-democracydemonstrations in Hong Kong and Burma.On the basis of this necessarily fragmented information, their report "Lethal indisguise" (death in disguise) describes the health impact of non-lethal weaponsused by police forces around the world in the face of "the legitimate exercise ofa democratic right ".According to this report, tear gas canisters and other chemical irritants haveinjured 119,113 people over the past seven years, 4% of whom requiredhospitalization or surgery. At least fourteen people have died after inhalingthese gases. The so-called "defense" projectiles, including rubber bullets,injured 2,190 people, 65% of them in the eyes.At least 945 have lifelong sequelae and 12 died following this impact, count itsauthors who also describe the consequences of stun grenades, water cannons ortruncheons.Source: franceinfo with AFPWill the Vincenzo Vecchi case finally be closed?Like those of Rennes and Angers before it, the Lyon Court of Appeal refused,Friday March 24, to send Vincenzo Vecchi back to Italy. This activist risks 12years in prison in his native country for having participated in the Genoacounter-summit in 2001 (see article in CA 326).As after the decisions of the Rennes and Angers courts of appeal which werefavorable to it, will the public prosecutor appeal in cassation, and refer thecase to another court of appeal? There, it is still legally possible!However, the Lyon Court of Appeal rendered a very strong decision in which itdeclared that "this personal situation, related on the one hand to the age of thefacts, taken as a whole, committed in July 2001, i.e. there is over 21 years oldand, on the other hand, to the concrete seriousness of the objectively moderateoffense of devastation and pillage concerning him[...]leads to the conclusionthat the surrender would constitute a disproportionate infringement of the rightsto respect for private life and family of Vincenzo Vecchi".The support committee, which has allowed the cause of Vincenzo Vecchi to bestubbornly defended and known nationally, has 250 members. They have worked over30,000 hours on a voluntary basis. This represented more than 15,000 kilometerstraveled by each of the most active members of the committee. More than 660publications have been written. There were 11 hearings. 50 magistrates, 7 lawyersand many counsel worked on the case. The defense of Vincenzo Vecchi cost 58,000euros, including 43,000 euros incurred in legal and legal fees...Sources: article by Eric Vuillard published in the Obs and taken up by mediapart.International bodies are looking into repression in France!The National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH), accredited to theUN, has decided to alert international bodies to the mass arrests in France.Several thousand arrests took place in two weeks, mainly in Paris, to crush therising protest following 49-3. The CNCDH seizes the monitoring mechanisms of theUnited Nations regarding the actions of the police and the arrest of journalistsduring the demonstrations.Similarly, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic,denounced on March 24 an "excessive use of force" against demonstrators. Shespecified that "the sporadic acts of violence of certain demonstrators cannotjustify the excessive use of force by agents of the State[...]Nor are these actssufficient to deprive peaceful demonstrators of the enjoyment of the rightfreedom of assembly".France is regularly called to order on fundamental freedoms at the same level asItaly or Hungary, countries governed by neo-fascists. Could Macron be a shade ofthe far right? The Council of Europe calls on the French authorities to "allowthe effective exercise of these freedoms, by protecting" demonstrators andjournalists "against police violence".The NGO Amnesty International published a press release: "Since January 2023,demonstrations have taken place everywhere in France. We warn of the excessiveuse of force and abusive arrests, reported in several media. AmnestyInternational also recalls "that participation in undeclared demonstrations isnot a crime".Major German newspapers with a centrist opinion have described France as an"authoritarian Absurdistan" and even a country on the eve of fascism, drawing aparallel with "the dying Weimar Republic".Source: CounterattackFrance legalizes biometric surveillanceArticle 7 of the law on the Olympic Games was adopted on March 23 by theAssembly, formalizing the formal entry of algorithmic video surveillance (VSA)into French law, until March 2025, six months after the Games. Olympics.The VSA could have been legalized on the basis of lies.The Biometrics Lie: The government repeated and enshrined in law that VSA is notbiometric surveillance. It is totally false. This technology permanentlyidentifies, analyzes and classifies bodies, physical attributes, gestures,silhouettes, gaits, which are unquestionably biometric data.The lie of usefulness: The government has managed to make people believe in anecessity, fabricated from scratch, to "identify suspicious packages" or "preventcrowd movements", as if there were no other methods to resolve these security issuesThe technical lie: the main application of the VSA consists in identifyingbehaviors that the police will have previously defined as "suspicious". Arbitraryand inherently dangerous, the operation of these algorithms has never beenexplained by the government: and for good reason, it is probably not understoodby the majority of decision-makers...Behind the adoption of this article 7 on biometric video surveillance, there isalso the victory of a lobby. Combining security multinationals, artificialintelligence start-ups and public decision-makers adept at repression, this lobbyis advancing its pawns to recover the shares of a market estimated at severalbillion euros, far from any notion of transparency. and public debate.This first legalization of automated video surveillance will necessarily pave theway for all other biometric surveillance technologies: algorithmic audiosurveillance, facial recognition, biometric tracking of people a posteriori...Source: laquadrature.netRepression of youthIn any social movement, the mobilization of youth can play a decisive role, theauthorities know it!When supervision and repression internal to educational structures are no longersufficient to prevent blockages, the cops intervene without any restraint. Thisis how hundreds of young people have been the subject of an unprecedented violentrepression with 36-hour police custody, insults, humiliation, sexual violence,theft of their mobile phones,....Examples abound, as shown in the video posted on "against attack" where we seeadults in uniform, holding teenagers at gunpoint with weapons of war, copspressing their weight on the body of a high school student . These are the imagesof Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris, from Thursday April 6.It can even go further! Valentin, a student in audiovisual BTS at Suger highschool in Saint Denis (93), was the victim of an unspeakable attack on theevening of Tuesday March 21, by two police officers on motorcycles, accompaniedby a BRAV-M agent. on foot while this student was running, to avoid being hit bythe police, he was hit from behind by one of the motorcyclists. In his fall, hishead hit the pavement, causing a head injury. The motorcyclist then rolled overhis body, causing a severe ankle sprain and bruises on his legs; his injuries,observed and treated immediately at the hospital, caused him to be TotallyIncapacitated for Work for 8 days.Sources: Teachers in struggle, counter-attack.netThe weapons of war of the French policeIn their final report of operations to maintain order in Sainte-Soline, therepressive forces omitted the use of GM2L grenades. Army General C. Rodriguezmentions "simply" "5,015 tear gas grenades fired, 89 GENL disencirclementgrenades, 40 ASSR deflagrating devices and 81 LBD shots", but does not mentionthe GM2Ls.This oversight raises questions as BFMTV resumed the day after the demonstration,a first count from the Ministry of the Interior speaking of 260 GM2L grenadesthrown at the demonstrators."These 260 GM2L grenades are equivalent to 11 kilograms of hexocire (explosive1.6 times more powerful than TNT) according to the disarm collective.It should be recalled here that on November 10, 2022, the authorities issued acall for tenders to purchase 840,000 additional GM2L grenades and massively equipthe police forces over the next four years. This grenade falls into the categoryof weapons of war.Mediapart had revealed that this grenade had serious technical failures. Inresponse, Darmanin had, on July 1, 2021, restricted its use and prohibitedthrowing by hand, in particular because of a malfunction of the igniter cap whichrisked seriously injuring the... thrower...The GM2L grenade was supposed to be less dangerous than its predecessors (GLI-F4and OF F1). Its intensive use in Sainte-Soline against demonstrators proves theopposite and reveals the cynicism of the authoritiesSource: Reporterre.nethttp://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article3787_________________________________________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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