(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #241 - Nantes: Enguerrand at home, Valls in jail! (fr, pt)

 [machine translation]

After the victory of Fralib, the fight against the airport project of 
Notre-Dame-Des-Landes is the other iconic fight years Holland, which seems closer than 
ever to a victory. For cons, the power at the service of Vinci, increasing in difficulty, 
stubbornly defending this grotesque project. His only response to an increasingly popular 
struggle suppress, maim, imprison. ---- On 22 February, thousands of us to stand up to the 
police in Nantes against the airport project. The media chose to side whining politicians 
on some broken windows rather than evoke the dozens of wounded protesters. Worse, the 
union FO Police received in June a special bonus for the forces present on 22, even though 
three people have lost one eye, maimed for life, and the University Hospital of Nantes had 
the day the event more than forty admissions for injuries police! Five people spend in 
immediate appearance, arrested the night of the protest. Beginning April 9 arrests and 
searches, based on some ridiculous facts and ridiculous elements by way of evidence, took 
place. Two of those arrested will be released without further action "in the absence of 
sufficient evidence." One of the convicts is a trade unionist and member of DAL recognized 
for its investment; Nantes is another militant, another victim of the relentless police 
force; others are minor, insecure, not necessarily activists... And yet, the penalties are 
very severe, up to one year farm - a sentence twice what had required the prosecutor! - 
For one of the defendants. For carrying out a smoke in an event and launched a stone into 
the void, Enguerrand is doomed to lose a year of his life. On 19 and 27 June three others 
will be called to the court, supported by a rally outside.

Organize to cope

The repression that followed the demonstration on February 22, will certainly not coming 
to an end and other activists will surely be arrested again in the coming months. On June 
18, again, six people were arrested at their homes, without much information at the time 
of this writing. Several trials are underway for sometimes several years, for example 
refusal of DNA FILING or attempted theft blamed militants operating "recycling craft" of 
food or another. The important work necessary to maintain solidarity against repression in 
2011 has pushed the development of Carila (antir?pression Committee from the fight against 
the airport).

Carila parallel to the "support committee Enguerrand" was created to support accused-es of 
22 A demonstration was held on May 17 in Nantes at the initiative of the collective. 
Bringing together thousands of people in a festive mood and combative, popularizing 
solidarity with the accused. A petition "Joint Declaration on arming the police to end the 
use of the Flash-Ball launcher ball defense, especially in the policing of demonstrations. 
"Also circulated on the Internet [1], to attract attention to the repression of 
increasingly violent social movement and the danger of a policy increasingly armed and 
uncontrolled. While the crackdown has a perfect media silence at stake in the battle is 
the development of a solidarity that will result in a massive national campaign against 
arming the police and for the release of imprisoned... and by Airport abandonment of this 
project exceeded. Let us not be fooled by the attempts made by division Valls and his 
clique, those are they who are the thugs.

Ben (AL Nantes)


[1] Petition to read and sign on 
http://27novembre2007.blogspot.fr/2014/06/lancement-of-the-petition-nationale.html.