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Communique from Blokes Fantasma (English Translation)
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per Anon |
23 abr 2016
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Translation into English of the communique from Blokes Fantasma following the police raids on 13th April. |
On Wednesday 13th April, the Catalan police raided three buildings in Barcelona, on a warrant ordered by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional (a special court in Madrid) at the request the German Courts. One person was arrested, accused of having participated in a bank robbery in Germany. As part of this operation the police raided Blokes Fantasma and searched the building for 12 hours. More than 25 people were held in the house during this time, three of them children under 5 years old; lawyers were not permitted to enter and no witnesses were present during the search of communal spaces. Many irregularities also occurred during the search of private apartments. The operation resulted in destruction to the house. All electronic devices (computers, mobile phones, USB devices, play stations) were seized, as well as people's cash, and no receipt was given to any of those searched for their seized property.
Such destruction and irregularities are inherent in any raid on the homes of those of us who are not – nor want to be – part of the establishment. As Blokes Fantasma we would like to highlight the double standards applied by their justice, depending on who is being searched. They took advantage of this raid to search the homes of many individuals, not only communal spaces and those of individuals named in the warrant, just as they have done in other operations such as Pandora or Piñata.
We also want to express our support for the woman arrested and all those close to her, independent of the charges she faces or how the court case evolves. We defend those forms of reappropriation that aim to recover that which capitalism is permanently taking from us, whether that is an abandoned building or the profits of the banks. Let's not forget that if some steal it is because others accumulate profits and control the basic resources that we need to live.
We would like to sincerely thank all those who mobilised and organised during and after the raids, showing their support outside Blokes and the other houses being searched, and at the police station in Les Corts; and organising and/or participating in the demonstration in the evening. We are grateful to the people who helped to rebuild the broken doors and clean up and repair what the police had destroyed in the house, making it possible to open the social space the next day and demonstrate, yet again, that when we say «if they touch one of us, they touch all of us» it is far more than just words.
Freedom for our companion currently jailed in Madrid.
Stop the extradition; solidarity with all those persecuted.
Wherever there is misery there will be rebellion.
PS. We demand that the Mossos d'Esquadra website publish all the selfies that the took, posing in our house and with our possessions. |
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