Our friend and comrade Jan has to go to prison for one year and two months, and a
ruling state and a particularly statist and biased judiciary in Nuremberg areresponsible. Even if Jan had done the things he was accused of, we would not have
accepted these sentences and announced our resistance - now all the more.
Therefore, we call on all anarchists, anti-authoritarians and people in
solidarity to go to the big demonstration on 16.10.2010 in Nuremberg and to carry
our solidarity with our friend and comrade Jan as well as our anger and
resistance into the streets.
Since a large crowd intervened in solidarity against a deportation on 31 May
2017, the police and investigating authorities have been targeting Jan.
Plainclothes police harassed him on his way home at night on his birthday and
then charged him with "resistance" and "assault" - resulting in his detention. On
Jamnitzer Platz, people in solidarity courageously opposed racist and classist
police measures and drove the police away with angry shouts - resulting in 15
months in prison for Jan, who was proven not to have been there. And even if he
was, an award for civil courage would be more appropriate instead of a long
prison sentence without probation.
The sentence is part of a blatant wave of international repression against
anarchists and is an impressive demonstration of the Nuremberg authorities'
desire to persecute and their authoritarian ideology. However, the alleged rule
of law exposes itself at this point by breaking its own rules and revealing the
underlying ideology of a non-neutral executive and judiciary. In a show trial
full of lying police witnesses, biased judges, punitive prosecutors and
intimidation of exculpatory witnesses, the Nuremberg authorities as state
institutions show their true face - the primacy of the unconditional maintenance
of a capitalist system based on racist order, oppression and coercion behind the
façade of criminal law. It shows what seems most dangerous to them: actions and
structures based on solidarity that challenge the racist regime of order and
deportation. It is Jan who is affected, but it is all of us who are meant!
Not only is this deprivation of liberty excessive and illegitimate - the entire
logic underlying criminal law and the penal system stems from an authoritarian
spirit that consolidates a society full of inequality and more than stands in the
way of a free and just world. After all, what does society gain from tearing
young, committed and solidaristic people like Jan from life, separating him from
his friends and loved ones and putting him in a lonely cell for 14 months?
Therefore, our slogan must be: Against prisons - and a society that thinks it
needs them!
Our anger, our determination and our resistance will grow with every day that our
friend has to sit in prison, every day we will stand up for his freedom and fight
for it until we know Jan in our midst again!
Down with the authoritarian conditions, in Nuremberg and everywhere! Freedom for
all prisoners! For the social revolution!
If you want to support Jan and his companions, please contact us or
solikreis-jamnitzer@riseup.net.
You can find a donation account here:
Rote Hilfe e.V. OG Nuernberg
IBAN: DE85 4306 0967 4007 2383 59
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
Subject: Jamnitzer
You can find more background information about the events of 31 May at Jamnitzer
Platz and in the courtrooms here (in German): aufdersuche.blackblogs.org
You can find the call for demonstrations of the Nuremberg groups and all
information about getting there, the place and time here (in German):
jamnitzer.noblogs.org
Federation of German-speaking Anarchists (FdA-IFA)
https://fda-ifa.org/freiheit-fuer-jan-demo-16-10-2021-nuernberg/
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