On January 18th, 2013, the Évry court sentenced Ibrahim El Louar to two year imprisonment and imposed him a fine of 1,200 euros for damages to cops. He is accused of participation in the escape of five persons from the Palaiseau detention centre for migrants on December 16th, 2012. Ibrahim […]
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On December 16th, 2012 five people tried to get away from the Massy-Palaiseau detention centre. Four would make it but the fifth person, Ibrahim, was caught by the police that beat him up. He was taken into custody, held for two days and then brought before a judge, accused of […]
On February 1st, 2013 at around 20.30pm immigrant street vendors in the neighbourhood of Thissio were chased off by the Athens municipal police, trapping one of them in a corner just above the rails of the Thissio metro station. When the cops attempted to steal the worker’s merchandise by shoving […]
When the year was coming to its end a group of around 20 people went to visit the Metsälä detention center. We showed our support to the people inside – imprisoned because of their origins – by making noise outside the fences. We communicated our message with drums, vuvuzelas, fireworks […]
Last night a group of people went to make noise at the new location of the Schiphol deportation prison (Amsterdam). It is an international tradition on New Year’s Eve to go to the prisons to break the silence and isolation. In the new Schiphol prison ‘De Poort’ over 1,000 people […]
Several Cardiff militant activists came together on the 18th December to show solidarity with the call-out for international solidarity with Human Rights Day demonstrations in France and beyond North-West Europe on the 10th of December, and December demonstrations continuing at the ZAD (near Nantes, Loire-Atlantique) and in major French cities […]
An anti-prison poster was pasted in many German cities, which reads: New Year’s Eve in front of prisons! Everywhere, from the deportation centres to the penal institutions! Noise demonstrations in front of prisons during the New Year’s Eve are an ongoing tradition at several places in this world to remember […]
November 10th, 2012 We are a group of immigrants, illegal ones, who managed to avoid arrest during the “Xenios Zeus” operations that took place in Patras on the 1st of October. During this operation many of our friends were arrested and are now being held for no reason whatsoever in […]
On October 24th, 20 participants in the ongoing refugee strike in Germany decided to go on hunger strike and set up a second tent camp in front of Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, which the police took down that night. The cops forbid any use of sleeping equipment as well. Below […]
The morning of Monday, October 1st, saw another police operation under the name ‘Xenios Zeus’ against immigrants and refugees, this time in the port city of Patras. There was heavy police presence in the city since the day before, including anti-riot squadrons from Athens and other cities, as well as […]