From Monday 13 to Sunday, October 26, 2014, a large police operation at the European
level will take place against the migrant.es Under the name "Mos maiorum operation", the
objective is to stop and control hundreds of people to collect a variety of information to
strengthen their policies against immigration. ---- The name "Mos Majorum" speaks volumes
about the philosophy behind this: the Latin " ancient customs "or" ancestral customs " Mos
Majorum means in ancient Rome lifestyle and the system of traditional values. The five
foundations are: - fides: loyalty, respect for the given word, loyalty, faith; - Pietas:
piety, devotion, patriotism, duty; - Majestas: natural feeling of belonging to a superior
chosen people; - Virtues: quality specific to a Roman citizen, courage, political
activity; - Gravitas: all the rules of conduct of the traditional Roman respect for
tradition, seriousness, dignity, authority. Something to offer fascists and supporters of
theories about the invasion.
The operation Mos maiorum is jointly conducted by the European Union (EU), member of the
Schengen area and EU agencies Frontex and Europol.
Frontex (European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External
Borders) is an EU agency that since October 2005 (when it was first used) is responsible
for conducting various operations monitoring and control at the external borders of Europe
(mainly south and east). Military, technological and police are made available (ships,
helicopters, radars, sensors, etc.) by the EU Member States and a budget of tens of
millions of dollars each year is allocated. It is the military arm of the European
migration policy: Frontex organizes the military and technological shield border. The
agency also operates outside the EU, mainly in countries with external borders, to
outsource European migration policies. It also organizes charter flights to joint
expulsions between countries. Dozens of European and international organizations work with
Frontex: international law enforcement agencies and justice organizations to manage
migration and refugee research and development for safety, etc. (see two texts on Frontex
here and there , and maps on the Frontex operations here )
Europol is the Office of Intergovernmental criminal police of the EU which coordinates the
work of national policies on terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime. Increasingly
Europol participate in the European operations against migrant.es with stated objective is
to " dismantle smuggling networks of traffickers and terrorist groups , "famous
triptych" immigrants, smugglers, terrorists "behind the whole European policy in the fight
against immigration and serves as a bogeyman to justify his actions. The current political
situation in Iraq and Syria is even more profitable for them. Another operation conducted
by Europol of 15 to 23 September 2014 under the name of " Archimedes "(which involved
Frontex), which referred to international criminal groups also led to control over 10,000
migrant.es and the arrest of 170 smugglers.
The control zone will therefore extend the territories of 32 countries (28 EU plus 4
non-EU member but Schengen) and by sea from Norway to Spain , from Iceland to Cyprus,
Portugal to Estonia through Romania. Why no fewer than 18,000 cops and Coast Guard will be
mobilized and transaction costs will be covered retrospectively by the States and Frontex.
Control zones are at the discretion of the participants and can be very large :
territorial waters, ports and airports, the external and internal borders of the EU and
Schengen, stations and trains, highways, public transportation and the streets, workplaces
and governments, etc.
Each control will result in a listing procedure: information on control (place, date,
time, means of transport); of arrestees (nationality, sex, age, place and date of entry
into Europe); travel routes, means of transportation and final destination; on documents
in the possession, administrative procedures and business payments smugglers. A
coordination office of the operation will be in place in Italy and each procedure it will
be sent via mail ( gruppo.frontiere@interno.it ). . Apparently this type of operation
should be carried out every six months, under the coordination of the country holding the
EU Presidency in October and November 2012, a similar operation took place, " Aphrodite
operation "in after which 5,298 people had been arrested across Europe.
This is both an employment card transaction / identification as hundreds of people will be
controlled (with fingerprinting, registration on European files, etc.) but also a kind of
investigation across Africa / Asia / Europe to find new routes used by migrant.es, new
countries of origin and transit that will enable European countries, in collaboration with
"neighboring" countries to strengthen their control and new devices.
For years, the EU's Frontex and member of the Schengen States are implementing enormous
resources to make it inaccessible Europe to those it wishes to receive, with the increased
collaboration called "departure" or "transit" in Eastern Europe, the Maghreb and Africa.
VISA system less accessible to the poor shielding of external borders, the war rages on
migrant.es. In the Atlantic and Mediterranean, walls and barbed technological gadgets of
Ceuta and Melilla and the military and police presence in the sea make the roads more
dangerous for long and harragas . For 26 years, more than 21,500 people have died at the
gates of Europe and the figure will continue to increase day by day.
Early 2014 the project Eurosur was established. It allows to pool resources for monitoring
existing maritime boundaries and bring others available (drones, radars, satellites, ...).
Information gathered round the clock are both centralized and distributed so that each
country can follow a real-time situation and take the necessary action, that is to say,
intervene to " reduce number of illegal immigrants who return to the European Union
without being discovered. "
A new mission called " Frontex More "will reinforce the surveillance off the coast of
Italy and Malta in a few weeks. Requested by Italy following the recent arrivals on its
shores harragas must replace " Mare Nostrum "which is nearing its end.
Specifically with this operation Mos maiorum it is likely that the number of raids will
rise in major cities, especially in transport.
Every year thousands of people are controlled, arrested, locked up in detention centers
and deported because they do not have papers (in 2012, 43,746 people were locked up in
detention centers and 36,822 people were expelled from France , according to the
associations in the CRA).
Since 2005 and the establishment of targets for expulsion, the number of facies controls
has been increasing: in public transport, streets, railway stations and trains, airports,
governments, in banks, post offices, places of work (restaurants, construction sites), at
home, etc.
Large operations are regularly organized by the Prefecture and the police for arresting
dozens of people at once.
In Paris the targeted neighborhoods are popular areas of northern and eastern Paris suburb.
Cops can act civil or in uniform, in small groups or in bulk. Mostly vans for boarding
controlled people are parked nearby.
Such raids often go unnoticed because we are so used to the police occupation.
In transport are often joint with controllers.
For many years groups of people trying to organize themselves against the raids in some
neighborhoods: sms alert, display and distribution, rallies, neighborhood assemblies,
controls disturbances, attending court hearings chains, etc. Repeatedly solidarity with
people of the area allowed the police were forced to stop and turn back.
THE HUNT IS ON? Lest IT!
OCCUPY STREET, INFORM, WE OPPOSE THE CONTROLS.
NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS, STOP THE EVICTION!
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