Demonstrations have taken place in Dublin, Belfast and Cork in solidarity with the
anarchists arrested in the Spanish state under Operation Pandora. You'll find images and
more information in this album* ---- On Tuesday, December 16th, at 5am, hundreds of cops
broke into several houses, social centers, and ateneos in Barcelona, and also an apartment
in Madrid. It was part of Operation Pandora, an anti-terrorist initiative carried out by
the the highest level of the Spanish court system. Several houses were searched and eleven
anarchist comrades were arrested. They did not know what charges they were accused of when
they were arrested, just given a vague ?anarchist terrorism? charge. ---- On Thursday,
December 18th, seven of them went to prison and the other four were released under
surveillance. All of them are now accused of the participating in the GAC (Coordinated
Anarchist Groups), a group of people who held some meetings and edited some books.
The coordination between the police force and the media during Operation Pandora was very
apparent. Together, they created panic and justified the repressive operation in terms of
?criminal groups?, ?terrorists? and ?violent ones?. These police raids happened one day
after the enactment of the ?Ley Mordaza?, a very restrictive law that criminalizes
disobedience and protest in the Spanish state.
* https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1054376377921508.1073741901.132000150159140
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