Giustizia per Nahel
Radici delle rivolte in Francia

https://crimethinc.com/2023/07/02/giustizia-per-nahel-radici-delle-rivolte-in-francia-1

Il seguente testo ci è stato inviato dai compagni francesi il terzo giorno di disordini seguiti all’assassinio dell’adolescente Nahel Merzouk da parte della polizia francese nella città di Nanterre, un sobborgo di Parigi. Fornisce un’analisi della situazione e una panoramica della lotta contro la brutalità della polizia in Francia a partire dagli anni ‘70.

Oggi questo movimento sta affrontando un’intensa repressione nelle strade, nei media e nei tribunali. Ad oggi, oltre a Nahel, sono state uccise almeno tre persone. Piuttosto che concentrarci sul dispiegamento di poliziotti militari specializzati in tutto il paese, preferiamo iniziare con gli sforzi dei giovani che stanno rischiando la vita per difendere Nahel e per se stessi.

#Italiano

We've prepared a zine version of "Living in an Earthquake: The Fight Against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression," part three of our history of the movement to #StopCopCity.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/living-in-an-earthquake

In this account and analysis, participants in the movement in Atlanta trace its trajectory from the fifth Week of Action that began on March 4, 2023 through the City Council vote of June 5.

Feel free to print and distribute!

Update from France, July 5

A little more than a week after Nahel’s passing, following five nights of revolt, the French state is using the full weight of the judiciary system to crush the uprising.

More than 300 people were sentenced to prison last night. Yesterday, at Créteil, in the southern part of the Paris region, almost all the youth who were being judged were sent to prison. It didn’t matter whether they had good lawyers or bad lawyers, whether there was evidence or not, whether they had good personality references, whether they had snitched. At the end of the day, everyone went back to Fresnes with sentences from 6 to 30 months.

The news from other courthouses across the Paris region is just as bad. The judges are following a directive of June 30 from Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, in which he calls for a “firm and fast response” with strict “safety measures”—in other words, imprisonment. The prosecutors and judges are eagerly complying.

Across France, people as young as 12 years old are being systematically sentenced to months or more in prison. In the streets, the affect is more and more nihilistic: “they can’t catch us all.” Still, for the past few days, things have been calmer at night. It could be that the repression is working to intimidate people; or that mothers are keeping their kids at home; or that the looting has slowed down because the stores need to be filled up with goods again; or that people are waiting for the weekend of July 14, the French national holiday, to set things ablaze once more.

You can read more about *comparution immédiates* ("immediate judgement"), which has been used in almost all the cases this week, here:

https://paris-luttes.info/la-justice-enferme-les-revolte-es-17244?lang=fr

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/Nahel

"Nous ne sommes pas des martyrs"

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/21/nous-ne-sommes-pas-des-martyrs-un-message-de-serge-qui-a-survecu-a-une-tentative-de-meurtre-par-les-forces-de-lordre-francaises

Communiqué de Serge, survivant d'une tentative de meurtre de la part de la police française.

#Français

"It’s not the barricade but the rifle that you have to hold onto."

-Buenaventura Durruti, born on this day in 1896

If you lose the barricade (for example, a social center, a forest occupation, a particular engagement with the state) but retain the rifle (the collective ability to fight, immunity to narratives that legitimize state violence, a commitment to solidarity over opportunism), you can still move from one engagement to the next, building capacity, even if you fail to hold a particular position in the fight.

If you lose the rifle but retain the barricade, it may appear that you have won, but thirty years later you will look around and find that you are inhabiting a museum surrounded by wine bars, like the once formidable squatting movements that retained a few properties in retain for ceasing to fight.