Between May 17 and 19, 2023, the International Defense and Security Fair of
Spain, FEINDEF 2023, was held in Madrid. It is a biannual fair that is held forthe third time in the capital of the Spanish State. ---- An arms fair with40,000m2 of exhibition space in which the more than 450 exhibitors have been ableto sell their novelties to more than 100 foreign delegations: they have signedmillion-dollar contracts to do business with destruction and death, with controlof borders and populations. And once again, the antimilitarist movement has onceagain called, through Desarma Madrid, different mobilizations, during those days,in protest against the celebration of the new edition of FEINDEF.For this reason, on May 18 at approximately 11 a.m., a group of activists carriedout a peaceful and non-violent protest action, at the gates of the IFEMAfairgrounds in Madrid, where the FEINDEF 2023 Arms Fair was held. About twentypeople between the ages of 20 and 70, they tried to display some wooden panelsthat read "STOP Selling arms" with anti-militarist logos. The entrance to IFEMAwas cordoned off by a strong police device made up of three police vans withheavily armed agents.The consequent police action was absolutely disproportionate, charging harshlyfrom the first moment against the people who were gathered there. Which preventedthe wooden panels from being deployed. But it was possible to display a bannerwith the slogan "The war starts here, let's stop it here." The police actioncaused injuries of varying degrees to several people. One of them suffered a verysevere cut on her finger, for which she had to be transferred to the emergencyroom at the Hospital de La Paz in Madrid. Injury from which he recovers favorably.The protest lasted just under an hour, in which slogans such as "No to War", "Thewar starts here, let's stop it here" and "Warlords are not welcome" were chanted.Later, 18 people were transferred to the Hortaleza police station. And after thecorresponding searches and identifications, they were released. The reportreceived indicated that 16 of them had been transferred to police stations topropose a sanction and 4 of them for prevention of the commission of a crime.While the protest was taking place at the gates of IFEMA, inside the Arms Fairwere the Ambassador of the United States and the Minister of the InteriorFernando Grande Marlaska. Presumably this action was not to their liking, whichwould largely explain the disproportionate police action.Among the retaliated compañeras were activists and militants from the MadridAntimilitarist Assembly, Bilbao MOC, MOC Canarias Antimilitarist Alternative,Women in Black Madrid, Yayoflautas Madrid, Ecologists in Action Madrid, DesarmaMadrid, CSO La Enredadera, CNT Comarcal Sur and CGT South Zone. One of thedetainees was the secretary of Social Action of the CGT of MCLMEX. From CGT we want to express our full support and solidarity with all theantimilitarist compañeras retaliated against in the protest action against theFEINDEF23 Arms Fair and convey our wish for a speedy recovery to the compañerainjured by the police action. As well as joining all the actions that theAntimilitarist Movement calls for to respond to this disproportionate aggressionagainst the right to protest.In an international context of war, economic crisis and increase in militarybudgets throughout Europe and in the Spanish State in particular, actions such asthose on May 18 before the aberrant FEINDEF Arms Fair are an important sign ofcommitment to peace, against all wars, against all blocs, against the business ofdeath.Out Warlords!The War starts here, let's stop it here!Their repression does not intimidate us, history is written with disobedience!https://cgt.org.es/ni-feria-de-armas-ni-criminalizacion-de-la-protesta/_________________________________________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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