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After the death of Remi Fraisse and clashes during the protests that ensued, it was
necessary to put these events in a global context and to remember that the death of Remi
is only one among many. ---- We publish two articles that analyze the meaning of the
repression carried out by the state. To cope with the escalation of calls for repression
against the "thugs" on behalf of the National Union which engage all parties it is good to
remember that the police offensive is only one aspect of the offensive that business and
deliver the ruling class against the dangerous classes. ---- It is this aspect that
obviously want to hide all the "whistleblower". And especially ecologist EELV. It will be
sufficient if the rumbles that they stand at attention to you.
After being roundly - and unfairly! - Villipend?s by the government after the death of the
Testet Remi Fraisse, environmentalists court did assault allegiance to the system not only
dissociating themselves in advance of "thugs" and denouncing them and claiming they are
punished after the events of Nantes and Toulouse! The terms used in the fight nothing to
those used by all the Ministers of the Interior for 40 years by delivering on the carpet
fantasy thugs from elsewhere.
It may very well have a tactical divergence (not present) or strategic (not right now) or
even ideological (non-violence) with this kind of event. But it's not that they expressed.
They shouted in the face of everyone "we are on the side of power and its cops." We are
respectable people, respectful of the institutions in general, including police.
What is unbearable in the EELV position is that in the way they expressed themselves
vis-?-vis the events of Sivens first, then Nantes and Toulouse is that they speak for
First power.
Mathieu Rigouste:
"THE DEATH OF JAIN IS NOT a burr IS A MURDER IS"
Mathieu Rigouste activist, social scientist, working to disrupt the mechanisms of
domination. In Police Domination (2013), he argues that "police violence is rationally
produced and regulated by the state". According to him, the zadistes Testet are facing an
"insurgency against police", which can be derived by "low intensity war". It distills an
iconoclastic reading of events that led to the death of R?mi Fraisse.
Maintenance.
Apart?.com: Place du Capitole, in the first tribute to R?mi Fraisse, reading "Police
kills" on a banner. How would you describe the death of R?mi Fraisse?
Mathieu Rigouste: The banner read "Bouna and Zied (October 27, 2005), Timothy Lake
(October 17, 2014), Remi Fraisse (October 26, 2014), RIP, police murders, neither
forgiveness nor oblivion! ". October 27 because it was the anniversary of the death of
Bouna and Zied in Clichy-sous-Bois fleeing the police, who started the great revolt of the
working class neighborhoods of 2005. Because a week before the murder of Remi, October 17,
is Timothy Lake who was killed by the BAC in St-Cyprien (Toulouse), in a supermarket and
in the almost universal indifference.
"Police distributes the ferocity of the ruling classes"
It was exactly 53 years after the police killing of 17 October 1961, during which the
Paris police killed dozens of Algerians fighting for the liberation of their people. The
state propaganda and mainstream media produce a "national" official story and allowing
legitimate operation of this industrial violence.
In the case of Remi, La Depeche du Midi got the ball mythomaniacs publishing this story of
body found in the forest, leaving open the idea that the police had nothing to do with it,
even it had collected. But we can demonstrate collectively by the People
against-investigation and self-organized murders that police regularly against media that
his violence is systemic, systematic and driven by political, economic and social
structures. Police distributes the ferocity of the ruling classes..
Remi's death she was an isolated event, or it betrays a more general logic of police violence?
You have to put the murder of R?mi in a long history where the police is very clear for
what it is: a state apparatus responsible for maintaining the economic, political and
social (capitalist, racist and patriarchal) by use of violence.
"Faced with ZAD, Western fonts experiment with new devices against insurgency"
The police can recognize his masters, and distributes various degrees and forms of
violence by class, race and gender of the people it controls. She has always beaten,
mutilated and killed parts of the "population" of the capitalist city (miserable marginal
prostitutes...). It maintains, in all the imperialist powers, a special relationship with
the neighborhoods and the poorest working class, along with parts of the most segregated
and most exploited proletariat, usually from immigration and colonization. It is
responsible to dominate and submit banish social strata that would most interest to get
rid of this system because they benefit the least.
"Police kills between 10 and 15 neighborhood residents per year on average"
The police and kills between 10 and 15 neighborhood residents per year on average. With
the prison system and the harassment and police occupation of the street, it is a real
business of "social cleansing" and crush all forms of popular autonomy.
Meanwhile, since the early twentieth century, the policing of "social movements" tended to
minimize the risk of killing the upper strata of the working class, the working class
aristocracy, the middle classes and the petty bourgeoisie precarious and radicalized.
The police killing of 'militants' remains to this day unique in the industry face police
murders non-white poor. But the figures of Carlos Giuliani killed by police in Genoa in
2001, Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed in Athens in 2008, show that the police killing of
"militants" tends to grow as the neoliberal restructuring of capitalism and safe operates.
Like all police crimes in neighborhoods, killing Remi is not a "mistake" not a fault, but
rather the product of mechanical imposed, rational training, tactics and strategies
legitimized and justified the top of the State unit into the actions of police officers
performers, it is a state murder premeditated by implementing structures that made
possible murder.
In Testet, CRS and gendarmes are almost ubiquitous. How do you understand the role of the
police on the dam site Sivens?
Police apply tactics and strategies established at the intersection of political, economic
and social power. As industry and governments investing in the dam project consider "worth
the cost" to continue, despite the diversification and the rise of collective resistance,
police repression increases the intensity.
"Western policies are able to instantly switch the police crackdown on low-intensity war"
Faced with ZAD and their reterritorializations forms of urban and rural struggles,,
Western fonts also experimenting with new hybrid and modular devices against insurgency,
that is to say where the police-military dimension of the grid, the entrapment and
provocation is centered on a rural and forest operation theater but is also able to move
quickly or simultaneously mode "Azur" (work in urban areas). Able to instantly switch from
"policing" in "crowd control" of police repression to the low intensity war.
This is an opportunity to experiment with these devices but also to put "value" media-that
is to say, to an experience of repression, a showcase for "excellence" in the "know French
do "towards the international market security and policing. The hybridity of doctrines,
equipment and personnel is a very high value on the market for defense and security.
"In Testet as in poor neighborhoods, the police is responsible for submitting all that
resists"
Against the insurgency is also based on psychological methods of action, including
protocols to divide the resistance by designating "internal enemies" that should be wary
even bleed. In this case, the figure of the "thugs" and "violent" ("the furious robber" in
the case of Timothy Lake) is used to demonize unconventional direct action, to hide the
structural violence of power and promote face it mobilizations harmless and easily manageable.
Doctrines against insurgency call this mechanism "schismo-genesis": developing a schism, a
separation in the resistant "population". This form of "psychological warfare" renovated
based on the existence of sound boxes for this propaganda in the mainstream media and
among political and union supplementary devices.
In Testet as in poor neighborhoods, the police is responsible for submitting all
resistance to the expansion of the imperialist system. It should sweep all that hinders
the movement of conquest and programs displacement and dispossession of lands and their
habitant.es that capitalism uses to restructure.
Interview by Paul Conge
CONTINUITY BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND MILITARY CRACKDOWN
Posted by Ulyanov October 30, 2014
We have already presented two models of policing, the German model based on intimidation
and police pressure and the French model, based on the delegation of part of police work
with event organizers and repression posteriori. In recent years, these models have
hardened more, with the introduction of new weapons such as grenade attacks whose use by
the gendarmes killed R?mi Fraisse the Zad Testet of October 25, 2014, but also new
methods, inspired by the uprising against military...
Hardening of policing at the European level
It started with the anti-globalization movement. It was an opportunity for protesters from
across Europe to come together and fight together or confront the police. What is less
known is that it was also an opportunity for different fonts to work closely and develop
new methods of policing.
Thus, the anti-globalization protests were the pretext for the introduction of means
fichages grids and unpublished, but also collaboration at European level police forces.
These are border controls to prevent militants access to places of manifestation. It is
also the blocking of entire urban areas such as the against-NATO summit in Strasbourg
where the highway leading to the city and large parts of downtown were blocked by police.
This hardening of policing is more global, it is not about that counter tops
altermondialists. For example, in England, from 1980, under the government of Margaret
Thatcher, in a context of exacerbated social conflicts (miners' strikes, riots against the
poll tax...), the policing hardens and will militarize. We see the emergence of units that
have a culture of conflict and the maintenance of order harsh such as SPG ( Special Police
groups ).
In France, it is possible to observe a similar cure. So Hac?ne Belmessous explains in his
book including "Operation Suburb" there was a hybridization between military and police in
maintaining order in the cities and popular neighborhood. Mathieu Rigouste trace of his
hand in his book "The enemy within" a parallel between the methods of the war against
insurgency implemented during the wars of decolonization and the recent changes in the law
and order in sensitive Urban Areas. People are seen as likely to host an internal enemy
and treated accordingly, as an inspired model of colonial wars.
New weapons and new laws
In France, the laws governing the maintenance of order was changed to allow the cure. This
is the meaning of the revision of the Code of Homeland Security in 2011, and most of
Decree No. 2011-794 of 30 June 2011.
It allows the use of firearms by the police without n ' there is a situation of
self-defense. This means that it allows the police to legally use live ammunition on
protesters, which can be useful to law enforcement in an insurrectional context, but is
not applied today.
By cons, legitimate and commonplace the use of weapons to "non-lethal" fire (ie sensible
not to cause death): rubber bullets and other derivatives, as well as grenades and grenade
attacks d?sencerclement (those whose use caused R?mi Fraisse death.)
The introduction and the commoditization of these weapons of policing is the consequence
of the new doctrine against the insurgency policing. They are always "non-lethal", that is
to say, they are not designed to kill, even if they can. By cons, they are much more
devastating to their victims. Mention may be made flashball that fires rubber bullets very
powerful grenades "d?sencerclement" which have the same effect as the rubber bullets and
saturate an area with pieces of rubber bullets and that really does not belong in lace.
Finally, there is the offensive grenades blast that deafen, disorient and, at close range,
can cause a lot of damage.
Maintaining the classic military-style repression order:
no rupture, but continuity.
The consequence of these developments is the creation of a gray area between maintaining
the classical order and military repression, a continuity between "non-lethal" and deadly.
The direct result of the introduction of this new policing was an increased police
brutality. Mutilations have become more frequent and no longer has eyes lost to fire
rubber bullets (Link manifest flashball release). At the time of this writing, it's R?mi
Fraisse who lost his life because of a grenade attack on the ZAD Testet.
These new laws are the materialization of a militarization of policing or rather a
hybridization between police and military. Moreover, the army is formed to crowd control,
allowing him to make policing abroad (eg Kosovo). It also allows them to intervene in
France as permitted by law, since the Decree 2007-586 of 24 April 2007, which is chilling...
"Ultimately, they may be required for operations force requiring special security measures"
This hardening has several consequences. The first is to our disadvantage: the repression
is much harder. The fact risk losing an eye, or even show up in life can be discouraging
for or, which is very understandable.
On the other hand, one of the tactics of power was divided and non-violent protesters
-violents. It's much harder to do when any protester could lose an eye. More vis-?-vis
public opinion, it is much more difficult to delegitimize the "thugs" who throw stones
that do not hurt the CRS, when "thugs" leave with injuries and deaths in their ranks.
Finally, increased police brutality may have the opposite effect: it can push people who
initially would not have chosen violence to join the ranks of those who resist more difficult.
In any case, the ball is in our court.
Source: http://www.tantquil.net/2014/10/30/...
