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The EU meets Laborary Italy: on Incendiary Devices and Mysterious Acronyms
hydrarchist writes
:
From A.M and F. in Rome.
The EU meets Laborary Italy: on incendiary devices and mysterious acronyms.
The European Union reveals itself so fragile as to be shaken after four or five incendiary packets arrive at the modern offices and luxury homes of heads of institutions.
No-one was injured but its more than enough to howl about 'terrorism' which for the first time 'threatens European integration". The police forces of several countries are now co-organizing the investigation of so-called "anarcho-insurrectionalists". In Italy the hunt begins yet again. The government even floats a further extension of the law on subversive association (270 bis) and the police centralize the investigation as already occurred in the case of the Red Brigades. Bologna is at the epicenter because it was there that on December 21st two containers exploded in a bin under Romano Prodi's house, and it from there - according to the postage stamps - that the packages to Prodi, the banker Trichet in Frankfurt, the headquarters of Europol and Eurojust in Ajax, various European Parliamentarians in Brussels and in Great Britain were sent. During the first days dozens of searches were carried out in Bologna and the Appenine border between Toscany and Emilia, but to no avail.
The police and carabinieri don't seem to know what's going on, they're making controls and spying randomly in every direction. At least in Italy however the parcels (and the containers) of recent days are not really a novelty. Technically they are all identical to those already seen dozens of times in recent years. often without claims of responsibility and sometimes accompanied by initials and mysterious and slightly ludicrous documents. They are almost always designed in such a way as not to injure anyone except in the couple of cases where they were either sent to Carabinieri or could have harmed police or sorting office workers. Due the inquiries on the attacks on pylons and repeaters signed with slogans and statements in support of Marco Camenish, prosecutors from Turin, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Rome, Naples and Pisa have all been working on the anarcho-insurrectionists, but after years of phone taps, shadowing, searches and all the rest, no anarchist has ever been arrested, never mind tried or condemned, for participating in these attacks.
The true novelty brought up by Bologna is the document sent to the local office of the newspaper Repubblica on December 23rd, as the envelopes containing books packed with gunpowder set off addressed to people all over Europe. If this document is reliable, if that is those who wrote it really want to oppose the Europe of the banks, bureaucrats, police and prisons, then it means that amongst the bombers of recent years there has ripened a real political process leading to a 'mutual aid agreement' bringing together small groups hitherto distinct in their objectives, languages, 'military' capacity and presumed geographical location. The document, in the first of two parts, claims responsibility for "Operation Santa Claus" against "Fortress Europe" and the explosion of the two containers under Prodi's house. The second part is an "open letter to the anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement" announcing the birth of an Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI). There are four signatures attached that had already appeared in previous years, almost always with the declared intention of dialoguing, through actions, with the anti-globalization movement which has opposed the international summits from the G8 in July 2001 to the recent Italian Presidency of the EU, especially to attack its leaders and more moderate positions:
the "Artisanal Fire Cooperative and (occasionally spectacular) Allies" appeared only on one occasion, with perfect timing just days before the G8 in Genoa, 2001: a bomb was found in the very center of Bologna, and related devices were sent from the Emilian capital to TG4 (a television station), Benetton in Treviso and the carabinieri barracks in San Fruttuoso (Genoa), where a soldier was injured and the episode notoriously was instrumentalized against the movement so as to raise the level of tension: "On the occasion of the G8 explosive posts and crackling containers a little bit all over" wrote the cooperative at that time, announcing in particular "explosions for the police".
the "Cells against Capital, Prison, Jailers and their Cells", active also in Spain as "Celula contra el Capital, la Carcel, los Carcelaros y las Celdas" were authors in 2001 of attacks and explosive or incendiary packages to Italian and Spanish targets in Rome, Milan and Spain - from Iberia to El Pais and the Spanish high school Cervantes in Rome (see document at http://www.anarcotico.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35 06) - almost always connected to the historical fight against the high security prison regimes (Fies) used in Spain against detainees of ETA and anarchist groups (including some Italians), but also the campaign against the Spanish Oil giant Repsol (with numerous invitations to the motorcyclist Valentino Rossi to change sponsor) http://www.repubblica.it/online/cronaca/pacchibomb a/testo/testo.html
the 20th July Brigade claimed responsibility in December 2002 for a bomb which exploded in the gardens beside the Police Headquarters in Genoa - it was not exactly a banger and may have been intended to hit a cop approaching it after an initial decoy (link to doc), and, in February of the same year a small explosive device on a scooter near the headquarters of the ministry for the Interior (Viminale) in Rome;
International Solidarity claimed responsibility between 1998 and 1999 for explosive attacks in Milan, first at the Musotto Carabinieri barracks and then at the cathedral. In their brief documents there are references to the struggle against the Fies and the freeing of greek anarchist prisoners.
hydrarchist writes
:
From A.M and F. in Rome.
The EU meets Laborary Italy: on incendiary devices and mysterious acronyms.
The European Union reveals itself so fragile as to be shaken after four or five incendiary packets arrive at the modern offices and luxury homes of heads of institutions.
No-one was injured but its more than enough to howl about 'terrorism' which for the first time 'threatens European integration". The police forces of several countries are now co-organizing the investigation of so-called "anarcho-insurrectionalists". In Italy the hunt begins yet again. The government even floats a further extension of the law on subversive association (270 bis) and the police centralize the investigation as already occurred in the case of the Red Brigades. Bologna is at the epicenter because it was there that on December 21st two containers exploded in a bin under Romano Prodi's house, and it from there - according to the postage stamps - that the packages to Prodi, the banker Trichet in Frankfurt, the headquarters of Europol and Eurojust in Ajax, various European Parliamentarians in Brussels and in Great Britain were sent. During the first days dozens of searches were carried out in Bologna and the Appenine border between Toscany and Emilia, but to no avail.
The police and carabinieri don't seem to know what's going on, they're making controls and spying randomly in every direction. At least in Italy however the parcels (and the containers) of recent days are not really a novelty. Technically they are all identical to those already seen dozens of times in recent years. often without claims of responsibility and sometimes accompanied by initials and mysterious and slightly ludicrous documents. They are almost always designed in such a way as not to injure anyone except in the couple of cases where they were either sent to Carabinieri or could have harmed police or sorting office workers. Due the inquiries on the attacks on pylons and repeaters signed with slogans and statements in support of Marco Camenish, prosecutors from Turin, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Rome, Naples and Pisa have all been working on the anarcho-insurrectionists, but after years of phone taps, shadowing, searches and all the rest, no anarchist has ever been arrested, never mind tried or condemned, for participating in these attacks.
The true novelty brought up by Bologna is the document sent to the local office of the newspaper Repubblica on December 23rd, as the envelopes containing books packed with gunpowder set off addressed to people all over Europe. If this document is reliable, if that is those who wrote it really want to oppose the Europe of the banks, bureaucrats, police and prisons, then it means that amongst the bombers of recent years there has ripened a real political process leading to a 'mutual aid agreement' bringing together small groups hitherto distinct in their objectives, languages, 'military' capacity and presumed geographical location. The document, in the first of two parts, claims responsibility for "Operation Santa Claus" against "Fortress Europe" and the explosion of the two containers under Prodi's house. The second part is an "open letter to the anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement" announcing the birth of an Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI). There are four signatures attached that had already appeared in previous years, almost always with the declared intention of dialoguing, through actions, with the anti-globalization movement which has opposed the international summits from the G8 in July 2001 to the recent Italian Presidency of the EU, especially to attack its leaders and more moderate positions:
the "Artisanal Fire Cooperative and (occasionally spectacular) Allies" appeared only on one occasion, with perfect timing just days before the G8 in Genoa, 2001: a bomb was found in the very center of Bologna, and related devices were sent from the Emilian capital to TG4 (a television station), Benetton in Treviso and the carabinieri barracks in San Fruttuoso (Genoa), where a soldier was injured and the episode notoriously was instrumentalized against the movement so as to raise the level of tension: "On the occasion of the G8 explosive posts and crackling containers a little bit all over" wrote the cooperative at that time, announcing in particular "explosions for the police".
the "Cells against Capital, Prison, Jailers and their Cells", active also in Spain as "Celula contra el Capital, la Carcel, los Carcelaros y las Celdas" were authors in 2001 of attacks and explosive or incendiary packages to Italian and Spanish targets in Rome, Milan and Spain - from Iberia to El Pais and the Spanish high school Cervantes in Rome (see document at http://www.anarcotico.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3
the 20th July Brigade claimed responsibility in December 2002 for a bomb which exploded in the gardens beside the Police Headquarters in Genoa - it was not exactly a banger and may have been intended to hit a cop approaching it after an initial decoy (link to doc), and, in February of the same year a small explosive device on a scooter near the headquarters of the ministry for the Interior (Viminale) in Rome;
International Solidarity claimed responsibility between 1998 and 1999 for explosive attacks in Milan, first at the Musotto Carabinieri barracks and then at the cathedral. In their brief documents there are references to the struggle against the Fies and the freeing of greek anarchist prisoners.