Communiqué from Jean-Marc Rouillan

from:       http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/communique-from-jean-marc-rouillan/

19022011

From Hommodolars Contrainformación (February 17, 2011) and Tokata(February 16, 2011):

On February 16, the Paris criminal appeals court decided to grant Action Directe prisoner Jean-Marc Rouillan a partial release from Muret Detention Center. The partial release period is scheduled to begin on March 7 and last for one year, after which Rouillan will be granted a conditional release.

The Paris District Attorney immediately appealed the court’s decision, as he has always done for decisions favoring Action Directe prisoners. Thus, Rouillan’s partial release may have to be postponed for a few weeks to a few months, depending on how long it takes the court to rule on the appeal.

During the partial release period, Rouillan will be allowed to leave prison during the day to go to work, but he will be subject to electronic monitoring and will have to spend nights and weekends in prison.

Rouillan was previously granted a conditional release over two years ago, but the court revoked it after 10 months, ruling that certain comments he made to the press contravened the conditional release’s speech restrictions. Those same speech restrictions, which prohibited Rouillan from speaking about the actions and events that led to his life sentence, will also apply to his upcoming partial and conditional releases.

Rouillan was imprisoned in February 1987 for his participation in the assassination of Renault executive Georges Besse and French general René Audran.

He recently released the following communiqué to mark the second anniversary of his return to prison:

Two years in prison for a few words. I, who in May ’68 opted for armed revolutionary action, am imprisoned here at the age of 58 just for speaking. How ironic! The counterterrorism magistrates thus justify the choice I made as a teenager, when like thousands of others throughout Europe, I realized that it was impossible to take revolutionary action within the limits of bourgeois politics. It seems this system won’t allow us to speak freely unless we regurgitate the pronouncements of our masters.

Blinded by their reactionary certainties and pleased with the widespread despair they cause, these judges are placing their bets on the definitive disappearance of a true far-left opposition in our countries—a class opposition able to spoil the appetites of the predators who control the fruits of the workers’ labor; an opposition coherent enough to rejuvenate the politics of the exploited. Intentionally or not, my detention reveals the fear that has always tormented the governments of the imperialist countries. It is a detention that originates from the will to annihilate any sign of a radical alternative capable of replacing the ritual customs of respectful petitions and promenading protests, the paralyzing verbal diarrhea of the “more leftism kills” crowd, the hopeless activities, the false ruptures with the system, and all the rest. Despite everything, the struggle continues: Every fight, every confrontation, every rejection carries a revolutionary alternative in its heart. I have learned from our failures. But I have never told myself that they are stronger, that nothing can be done. I have never retreated from sharing our combative experience and taking full political responsibility for our past actions. Two years in prison for a few words. This detention is based on an arbitrariness spawned by the vulgar proliferation of freedom-killing laws and decrees. Governments safeguard the impunity of hooligan bosses and millionaire thieves while increasing the number of laws that augment the severity of their coercive relationship to the exploited. Not a single year passes without a rushed (and often secret) vote to pass or amend a law that turns the screw even tighter. Extraordinary tribunals and counterterrorism squads frame the authoritarianism of this Police State and are its omnipotent expression. But these days, even “ordinary” tribunals—the ones that deport the Roma and foreign workers, acquit murderer policemen, and imprison slum-dwellers by the truckload—are introducing the arbitrary into every “ordinary” relationship between the State and its poorest subjects, coordinating with a whole stream of special squads that racially profile, search, beat, and play with their stun batons and tear gas canisters. How long will we accept the “ordinary” dictatorship of the far right? If this State were looking to give even more meaning to my militant life, it couldn’t have managed to do any better! Allow me to show my gratitude by quoting the poet Heinrich Heine: “The hatred of my enemies may serve as pledge that I have fulfilled this duty truly and honorably. I will ever show myself worthy of that hatred.” And to conclude this second anniversary, I thank—from the depths of my cell—all the comrades, friends, and people I’ve never met who include my liberation in their project of revolutionary emancipation.

—Jean-Marc Rouillan, Muret Detention Center

Letter of Olivier in jail on remand in Paris since the 14/01

Summarized: "No freedom for the enemies of power," they tell us.
We say "no peace for the enemies of freedom."

Olivier

Prison La Santé

21/01/2010

We are not in jail for graffities

We have been arrested in the street, in the Belleville district, by the BAC (brigade against criminality). Two patrols were turning knowing what they were looking for. In a bag, the cops found a spray and our fingers were a bit too dark for their taste. Our passage to the police station was not long, just enough for the cops to get out all their outfit of old tricks, less to force us to talk than to pressure. In the afternoon of 13, those of the SAT-Criminal Brigade (anti-terrorist section of the criminal brigade) pick us up, smiling. Therefore it is quite clear that the graffities will be only one insignificant detail, a pretext to bring us down
"Too bad, you had subsided, we went away with all that, but now you've relauch everything ." Some attempts to auditions for the form. Before that, houses searches to update their publication archives, to put a little mess. In offices, beamed notes inform us of complaints by the Red Cross. We quickly fixed. Already in the police station of the twentieth district the cops were talking to a special meeting among them after a call from 36 Quai des Orfevres about the degradation of several locals of Red Cross in Paris, the night of January 11 to 12 . Other graffities targeted the house of Justice and Law, in the tenth district. Anti-Terrorist Section on their teeth for graffities? There is something wrong there. The night of our arrest, graffities have benn spraid with messages of solidarity with the revolt these recents weeks in Tunisia, Algeria, against the state, whether democratic or dictatorial. So asked us question about this, but also graffities the night before, claiming that the subject would be the same (it's true that very few people show their hostility to the state ...) and that expressions like "death to the State" have been found in both cases
Beyond these specific facts, they blame us for the continuity of polical activities, our participation in fights, and thus complicity links and friendship forged during these struggles. In this context, the prison to punish a violation of judicial control which forbade , for two of us, to see and communicate clearly intended to destroy all forms of struggle and organization, beyond the informal democratic framework and its social control.
The criminal conspiracy as a charge, even if it's not formally mentioned in our case remains the obsession of those who seize on any fact, even as "trivial" as graffities, smoke bombs, posters to fit them into the mold "anarcho-autonomous" A good building practice, for each separate force, terrorizing the others, taking apart possibly the "leaders" of the "supporters", "theorists" and "Billposters" "pickers" and "performers" writ in authoritarian and hierarchical model is that of society as we're fighting, and that disgusts us in every way. This kind of pressure surges, in time where some struggles against detention centers and all forms of confinement, for example, seems to be marking time, act as a "precautionary principle" to nip in the bud any attempt of conflict against what dominates us. The regular complaints from the Red Cross participate fully in this cops's offensive, not losing an opportunity to collaborate with them. Hand in hand for the management of prisons, hand in hand in the suppression of anti-authoritarian struggles. A little paint for these humanitarian with red hands, it's not a heavy price to pay ...
Beyond the particular practices and means used in the fight (since both are mentioned fires, destruction targeted, degradation simple, collectives occupations...) it's the struggle itself and what it is in terms of desires and perspectives (a world without exploitation, without money, without prisons, without a state) that wants to stifle. This is anything but the consequence of a state, or "emergency laws". Freedom and democracy have nothing to do together. It must be quite a liar for saying the opposite. What piss them of is that our rage, our revolt and our struggles have nothing to claim, to concede nothing, nothing to deny, nothing to beg. We leave all that happy to the professional and opportunistic politics. Similarly, our friendships, our affinities are not negotiable. The freedom we want is unconditional.
A slogan of the revolt in Kabylia said:
"You can not kill us, we're already dead."
The State may also fuck us in jail, but the existing social relations already lock us up.
One thing that we do not forget: we have only one life.
Summarized: "No freedom for the enemies of power," they tell us.
We say "no peace for the enemies of freedom."
Olivier

A communique about the arrests in France and the solidarity to the revolt in Maghreb- a definition of Liberty among different revolts. CLIK TO READ.... polisson.noblogs.org/post/2011/01/25/communique-about-the-arrests/

Vincennes, near Paris - Viva Escape!

Tuesday 1 December 2009

Nights of 19 and 20 November. - Vincennes detention centre had to be rebuilt, with cameras everywhere, and that building had been in operation for just three days, because three people managed to escape. Good news!

"They arrested me at the prefecture, when I submitted my receipt for the renewal of the receipt[request for a residence permit]. They took my passport. They wanted to send me straight to the airport, then I made an asylum application to block the expulsion. I know that the application will not be accepted: Mali is not at war. I was already arrested two years ago, but I refused to board the plane. I’ve been here three days, yesterday two people tried to flee. The conditions here are bad, you have to wait, always wait for anything. All crazy, three people fled from building 1. We cannot communicate with those other buildings. The escape was at night, between two and three in the morning, the police were running everywhere, I was sleeping. We were woken up. Beating on every door. Two were taken. One of them was cut on the arms, belly and feet from trying to pass the net, it was serious because of the barbed wire. He did not want to go back to his cell on the first floor, wanted to stay down in the refectory, was without shoes, naked only in boxers, was tortured like a dog.
Here we must take medicines to sleep, there are bums, junkies, it’s too hard, there are fights all the time. People have made their entire life here and must leave, leave everything, it’s too hard. Everyone is angry, the police come and go all the time from the rooms, you cannot sleep, cannot stay out in the cold and you see nothing but wire fences. We are many in this building, we cannot eat as we want or even call our families. The social worker is not always here: is there on Saturday but not Sunday, and arrives late on Monday. People are angry, that’s why they have refused to go see the doctor. "(newspaper article)
"Good evening, all that the article says is true. Some guys helped those others to flee, they broke the window pane, helped them escape. They did it because the guys who ran away were to be expelled. You know, they are Algerians and there is chaos with their country, whereas the others didn’t follow them because they think they cannot be deported and will do their 32 days [before being released]."

The ALF has claimed responsibility for an arson attack at the Ronsard poultry slaughterhouse in Jouy during the night of October 16.

 Two trucks full of empty cages were destroyed. Firemen stopped the fire before it could spread to a nearby office. Photo from newspaper report.

The activists wrote:

"We burnt two trucks at a slaughterhouse in Jouy, a small village in France about 75km from Paris. The first goal was to burn completely the slaughterhouse but we failed. So just these two trucks.
French ALF"

Letter from French Comrades about the general strike and the riots in France

fromhttp://voidmirror.blogspot.com/2010/10/letter-from-french-comrades-about.html

Here attached and pasted is a communique from 
comrades in Paris translated into english by 
american writer Calamity Barucha. 

Please forward this widely, post onto
your blogs ect . We are trying to get this out there 
because there haven't been many communqies 
until now and hopefully people will
organize some soli-demos.
This same group who wrote this will soon 
come out with another 
communique that will be broader, consolidating 
more info and having a bigger anylisis and 
comrades will translate it.... 

But for now this is all we have so help us 
get it out there.
-sleepless in europe, 

Void Network

The following is a communiqué that appeared 
on Paris Indymedia, written by comrades who breifly 
occupied the Opera in Bastille, Paris on Satruday. 
Since the appearance of this communique,
mainstream media reports rising violent resistance 
across France on Tuesday, as once
again up to three million people took to the 
streets and riots occurred from Lyon to the Paris 
suburbs. As the Guardian reports, the
strikes have “appeared to be pushing France closer 
to crisis today as fuel shortages were felt across the 
country and violence erupted on
the sidelines of protests by children.”  
According to media, if fuel is not made available 
to cargo trucks in the next few days (due to
blockades and strikes), the economy could become 
paralyzed when factories and workplaces 
run out of supplies.

Translated from French:

The state and the bosses only understand one language
Monday, October 18th, 2010


During the last days numerous initiatives have begun to flourish
everywhere: secondary schools, train stations, refineries and 
highwayshave been blockaded, there have been occupations
of public buildings,workplaces, commercial centers, 
directed cuts of electricity, and ransacking of electoral 
institutions and town halls...In each city, these actions are 
intensifying the power struggle and demonstrate that many 
are no longer satisfied with the forms of
actions and words of order imposed by the union
leaderships.
In the Paris region, amongst the blockades of train stations 
and secondary schools, the strikes in the primary schools,
the  workers pickets in front of the factories, people create
inter-professional meetings and collectives of struggle 
are founded to destroy categorical isolation and separation. 
Their starting point:
self-organization to meet the need to take ownership over our
struggles without the mediation of those who claim to speak for
workers. Many of us do not organize ourselves according to the
traditional forms of strikes on work sites, yet provided, we still
find a desire to contribute to the general movement in economic
blockade. 

Thus, we find this movement as also an opportunity to go beyond the single issue of pensions, the question of work, in order to
develop and build together a critique of exploitation.

Starting from these questions we decided Saturday to occupy the Opera Bastille. This was to disturb a presentation that was live on radio, to play the trouble makers in a place where the cultural merchandise circulates and to organize an assembly there. So we met with more than a thousand people at the “place de la nation”, with banners stating “the bosses understand only one language: Strike, blockade, sabotage”
and “against exploitation: block the economy”, with the desire to go beyond the strictly limited framework of the union’s demonstration. We reassembled at the end of the demonstration in the contrary sense and arrived at the place of action, finally finding ourselves in a free demonstration situation surrounded by an impressive police force. Very
quickly more than a hundred police officers in civil dress, helped by the syndicalists service, ordered to split the demo in two and prevented a certain number of people from joining in.

With eggs and fireworks we pushed away the cops as far as possible from our demo, and we left “accidentally” some traces along our way. Note in passing to those who find nothing better to do than speculate on undercover officers from images stolen by journa-cops, there is no question of crying over two windows of banks whose attack is merely a weak response to the violence of capital.

Upon arrival at the Bastille, due police repression and confusion, only about fifty people were able to finally enter the opera while others chose to disperse.

The cops deployed in the square were able to arrest some forty people who were taken into custody in several police stations. Monday night, most were released, but at least 5 others remain in custody and go before the judge this would be Tuesday…they are charged with “armed assembly” and “destruction of goods by an organized gang”. As always, the powers decided to strike fast and hard, hoping to accentuate or create separations (between reasonable sydicalists unionists and simple shop-owners, between students and rioters ...) in order to smash everything that contributes to the
emergence of a genuine power relation against the state and the bosses. Police used “flashbang” grenades and rubber bullets against overly energetic high school students; the refinery workers suffer not only attacks from the police but also direct threats by the “prefect” to pursue them, and of requisition; the pissed off demonstrators who
decided not to just calmly disperse risk prison as in St. Nazaire.
Since the beginning of the movement over a thousand people have been arrested.

The multiplication of initiatives that escape the traditional
gravediggers of struggles belies clear to all those who would like to isolate the black sheep and prevent protesting that which is largely accepted, beyond the numbers of years of contribution. These actions allow us to glimpse the possibility of a movement where the corporatist struggles are left behind, where the bureaucrats loose foot, where struggles are not limited to what is allegedly acquired.

There is way more to take than they want us to believe!

Stop the pursuits. Freedom for everyone...

France braces for riots as protests turn violent

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A menacing new spectre hung over the French pension reform dispute yesterday – the threat of a re-run of the multi-racial suburban riots of five years ago.
As petrol shortages spread and the country braced for a new day of strikes and marches today, there were violent incidents and clashes between police and youths in a dozen cities and suburbs around France.
Although the incidents occurred on the fringes of demonstrations by Lycée (sixth-form) students, most of the violence came from roaming groups of hooded youths who were not directly involved in the protests against pension reform. Cars were turned over or burned and shops looted and smashed in Nanterre, west of Paris, and in Saint Denis, north of the capital, which was the starting point of the riots of October and November 2005.
There were also violent incidents on the edges of student demonstrations in other Paris suburbs and in Lyon, Rouen, Roubaix and Nantes. In all cases, both police and student leaders blamed independent, mobile, racially-mixed groups of casseurs – or "vandals" – who were not part of the pension protests themselves. Their motives were unclear, but similar violence by disaffected youths has erupted on the edges of other peaceful student protests in France in recent years.
Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets and arrested almost 200 young people in more than a dozen incidents across the country. The government – already facing a disruptive pension reform protest by unions and Lycée students – will be desperate to avoid the kind of violent police response which could touch off more serious rioting in the tense multi-racial suburbs of French cities.
Yesterday's incidents, though none very serious in themselves, added to the sense of a nation spiralling into a multi-layered crisis. Over 3,000 – out of 13,000 – French petrol stations ran out of fuel yesterday after panic-buying by motorists intensified. Eleven out of 12 petrol refineries remained on strike. Flying pickets blocked a score of petrol distribution depots. Others were opened up by police.
A chain of pickets defeated attempts by the authorities to reopen a refinery at Grandpuits, east of Paris. Key employees were ordered to return to work under the threat of legal action but pickets from the refinery and other industries blocked entrances to the site.
There were also sporadic blockages and go-slows by small convoys of lorries on the principal French motorways.
All of these actions are part of an "unofficial" second front opened by militant union branches against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 by 2018. At least 3,000,000 people are expected to join demonstrations today, and many public sector workers to stop work for 24 hours, in a sixth union "day of action" in seven weeks.
The more moderate union federations want to continue their soft or "political" strategy of one-day protests to build public anger against Mr Sarkozy. They hope that that this will help to oust him in 2012. A centre-left president and government could then reverse the reform. But the moderate national union leadership fears that the harder-line, confrontational strategy of more militant unions branches could anger public opinion and present Mr Sarkozy with a moral victory.

Teenagers torch cars in France as riots turn violent

Clashes in Paris and Lyon

French strikes ablaze: Britons warned to stay away as violence spirals

A car explodes in flames and policemen clash with rioting youths as spiralling violence grips France.

This was one of many flashpoints across the country yesterday amid growing public anger against raising the retirement age to 62.

In the town of Nanterre, north-west of Paris, officers also fired rubber bullets and tear gas at youths protesting outside their secondary schools.

Battle: The police officers clash with rioters in Nanterre, north-west of Paris. They fired rubber bullets and tear gas at youths protesting outside their secondary schools

Troublemakers – not students – were accused of starting a riot, pelting firemen with rocks as dozens of vehicles were smashed and set ablaze.

Meanwhile, British travellers were warned to stay away as trains, planes and motorways were brought to a halt ahead of today’s national strike.

More than 1,000 petrol stations ran dry as panic buying exacerbated a blockade of oil refineries ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote to approve the pension overhaul.

Chaos: Rubbish mounts up in the streets of Marseille

However President Nicolas Sarkozy has refused to back down in the face of growing opposition, with more than 70 per cent of people backing the strikers, according to yesterday’s Parisien newspaper.

‘If we must face a long strike, we’ll do it,’ he said. ‘A part of the country will be thankful that we brought the extremists to their knees.’

But union leaders remain equally intransigent. One at Total’s refineries said: ‘As long as the government won’t budge, we won’t budge.’

Yesterday, lorry drivers joined the anti-government action, organising 10mph ‘snail convoys’ to block major roads.

High school students damage a car during a demonstration in Lyon, France

A traffic police spokesman said: ‘The situation cannot get worse. These roads are leading to the northern coast, so anyone travelling to and from Britain by car can expect chaos.

‘The lorry drivers are leaving one lane open, and then travelling at very low speed.

‘The knock-on effect on public transport is enormous.’

Bus and train drivers joined the growing unrest on Sunday night, causing half of the country’s high speed TGV trains to stop running.

Police detain students during a demonstration in Lyon. There is growing public anger across France against raising the retirement age to 62

Eurostar services between London and Paris have so far been unaffected but trains between Belgium and the French capital were cancelled.

France’s civil aviation authority yesterday appealed to airlines to cut flights into French airports by 50 per cent as reserves of aviation fuel run dangerously low.

And wildcat strikes by aircraft refuelling workers caused other services to be cancelled or delayed.

But at least two long-haul flights from Paris – to Seattle in the U.S., and Mumbai in India – were forced to take off without enough fuel.

Strikers block fuel storage depots in Caen, northwestern France, yesterday

They were both forced to stop en route to refuel.

And last night the European air traffic agency Eurocontrol called on airlines flying into France to carry sufficient fuel reserves for their return journey.

Militant oil refinery workers yesterday defied a government order to return to work with pickets forming a human chain to prevent strike-breakers from entering a plant at Grandpuits, east of Paris.

Jean-Louis Schilansky, president of the Petrol Industries Association, warned that the alliance of refinery workers and truckers would cause ‘a very big problem’.

The protests are in response to President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to from 60 to 62

France has less than 100 days of oil stocks, according to International Energy Agency, and the government is already drawing the 30-day emergency reserves.

Millions of public sector workers are expected to march through Paris today at the climax of the anti-pension reform campaign.

The pensions reform, which includes raising the retirement age from 60 to 62, has already been approved by the National Assembly, France’s lower house.

But last night the crucial vote by France’s upper house, the Senate, to enshrine the bill into law, scheduled for Wednesday –was postponed until Thursday.

Many fear a re-run of the May 1968 riots in Paris when thousands took to the streets to try to bring down the government of President Charles de Gaulle.

Workers block traffic in Toulouse, southern France

France – Solidarity attack

“In the night of 17th to 18th October, in the 18th arrondissement, a shop of Bouygues was attackad and its shop window destroyed. A tag, “Fire to the prisons“, was left on the spot.
Bouygues is not only a seller of electronical ties, but also one of the biggist prison and detention centre constructors in France.
This action was realised in solidarity with the comrades arrested after the demonstration of the 1th of October in Brussels. As long as this society stays in place, prisons will have beautifull days ahead.
Let’s destroy the prisons, let’s demolish capitalism.”
x nantes.indymedia.org

Anger as French students join protests

18/10
Fears for their future prompted students to join the protests in France, their increasing anger sparking clashes with police. Demonstrations closed 261 high schools across the country, somewhat fewer than at the height of last Friday’s protests. There have been a number of arrests, including nine young people in the departement of Oise, and four in the town of Amiens.
French youth has a long history of taking to the streets to protest against what they see as state abuse of power, and little has changed.
One girl said: “Young people have the power to put pressure on the government. We do it for us and for others too, those who can’t afford to retire now. This is solidarity!”
But some critics say it’s unfair that a few hot heads can disrupt life for everyone else.
“It’s strange that young people think they can speak about what will happen 50 years from now,” said the mother of one student. “Only five or ten percent of students are blockading the entire school, and I think that’s sad for democracy.”
Outside Paris, police used tear gas against protesters in Mulhouse and Montbelliard in the east, while cars and a bus were set on fire in Lyon.

Big anti-Israeli demonstration in Paris

Up to 25,000 marchers hit the streets of Paris to demonstrate against Israel’s actions. Organisers said it was to show solidarity with the Palestinian people, accusing the international community of hypocrisy. A few hundred protestors broke away from the main march and tried to approach the Israeli embassy, but were held back by banks of riot police.

ROMA - Europe 1942 - 2010

French police evacuate a Roma family from a camp near Lille last month. In a speech French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that he had asked the interior minister to "put an end to the wild squatting and camping of the Roma." 

This picture from July 30, 1942 shows a concentration camp prisoner, Hans Bonarewitz, being accompanied to his execution by the camp band at the Mauthausen camp in Austria. Nobody knows exactly how many Roma died during Nazi times. Numbers range from a firm 90,000 to as many as an estimated half a million.

THE REAL COPS! FRANCE

Women with babies dragged by police

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Troops sent to quell new French riot

ABOUT 50 travellers armed with iron bars and hatchets have rioted in the small town of Saint-Aignan in central France after police shot a man dead, reports the BBC.

Violence erupted when the crowd, some of them masked, tried to force their way into a police station in the town in the Loir-et-Cher region.
In the ensuing riot, a bakery was trashed, three cars torched and trees, traffic lights and road signs damaged.
Three hundred soldiers were brought in to restore order.
Nobody is believed to have been hurt during the incident, which appears to have no connection with rioting in the eastern city of Grenoble over the weekend, which began after police shot dead an armed robbery suspect there.
The confrontation lasted some four hours before the rioters left town, France's L'Express newspaper reports.
At Saint-Aignan, the travellers were protesting at the death of a 22-year-old man shot by police, reportedly as he tried to run down two of their officers.Prosecutors say the man failed to stop his vehicle at a checkpoint and dragged a gendarme on the bonnet for 500 metres (yards). The gendarme escaped with light injuries.
Arriving at a second checkpoint, the driver allegedly then charged the two gendarmes on duty there, one of whom opened fire and killed him.
Both gendarmes were taken into custody after the incident but released without charge.
French TV channel TF1 News reports that the shooting occurred in the town of Thesee, near to Saint-Aignan.
"It was a settling of scores between travelling people and the gendarmerie," Saint-Aignan's mayor, Jean-Michel Billon, told AFP news agency after the riot.
He was quoted by L'Express as saying he was concerned the rioters were still close to the town and might return.

Rip off the existant

THE POSTER: IN ENGLISH

Wednesday 10 June 2009

We don’t expect anything from this society anymore. What it imposes on us disgusts us; what it offers us doesn’t interest us. We don’t want to submit anymore to the routines of work just for a few crumbs in exchange for our obedience; we don’t want our only dreams to be whatever television shows us.

They’ve already killed us thousands of times. In school, where they pound into our heads the idea that just following along with the flock is better than stubbornly believing in going your own way. At work, where the rhythms of production and the exigencies of money suffocate our beating hearts aspiring to freedom. At home, where antidepressants and family traditions drown us in the habit of resignation. In prisons or detention centers, where society confirms our status as undesirables. In churches, mosques or synagogues, where the promise of a paradise purchased in exchange for an authoritarian morality makes us forget that we live in the present. This society is in love with death and represses life.



This society has the whole world on a leash; it’s just a little longer sometimes. We’re not the kind to fight for a looser collar, a higher wage, a less brutal police force, more honest and concerned politicians. We just want what any being held on a leash wants: we want to cut the leash, set the fucking cage on fire, and crush everyone that’d tried to keep us on that leash, or would like to.



This explosion of passion for life isn’t some great final moment to patiently await; it’s a everyday thing, and it gets more and more intense as it accelerates and spreads. Maybe it’s confused sometimes, not always knowing where to strike so as to break the chains of slavery to and membership in all this, but it’s alive. Revolt, the scream of life against a society of the dead, expresses itself in thousands of rainbow colors: from attacks on the police that section off our streets, to injuries inflicted on oh-so-sacrosanct property; from sabotage against the structures of domination like banks, temp agencies, supermarkets, and institutions of all kinds, to clear and plain refusals to let ourselves be controlled, humiliated, regimented.



The revolt isn’t simply about disgust; it’s also about joy. The joy of affirming that in spite of all we are ALIVE. That in spite of the reigning alienation, our pathways of revolt are still crossing, and the possibility of building ties of complicity are never entirely annihilated.



In the fury of action, we forge our dreams of a world without masters or slaves, little by little. They’ll necessarily be attacked because they create fissures; but desires are what undermine the social edifice.



May the winds of freedom blow.

May the tempest of insurrection rage.