i think the Tarnac 9 were accused of doing something like this to TGV lines, which i only know about because i read The Coming Insurrection in 2009, which talked about them in the forward to the english translation.
the original french version came out in 2007 and spoke about how, if one tried to live in self-sufficient, simple communities, the forces of state and capital would array themselves to destroy you, so you might as well fuck with the flows anyway.
in 2008, a group of mutual aid anarchists in a small leftist village--who were known within the village for running a grocery cooperative, organizing a bunch of civic activities from a film club to delivering food to elderly people--were mass arrested in a police action involving 150 troops in ski masks carrying machine guns and multiple helicopters.
the prosecution's evidence was that a couple of the people arrested were in the same area where some train delaying sabotage occurred and that they believed one of the people wrote the booklet that said the thing. that was their evidence. they thought the guy probably wrote an anonymous booklet.
it took about 10 years of bullshit for the government's case to evaporate enough for these people to no longer be under the cloud of a terrorism case, because it was embarrassingly fabricated. not to mention, the ordeal basically added weight to one of the authors' flippant remarks. total Inspector Clouseau type shit.
i think the Tarnac 9 were accused of doing something like this to TGV lines, which i only know about because i read The Coming Insurrection in 2009, which talked about them in the forward to the english translation.
the original french version came out in 2007 and spoke about how, if one tried to live in self-sufficient, simple communities, the forces of state and capital would array themselves to destroy you, so you might as well fuck with the flows anyway.
in 2008, a group of mutual aid anarchists in a small leftist village--who were known within the village for running a grocery cooperative, organizing a bunch of civic activities from a film club to delivering food to elderly people--were mass arrested in a police action involving 150 troops in ski masks carrying machine guns and multiple helicopters.
the prosecution's evidence was that a couple of the people arrested were in the same area where some train delaying sabotage occurred and that they believed one of the people wrote the booklet that said the thing. that was their evidence. they thought the guy probably wrote an anonymous booklet.
it took about 10 years of bullshit for the government's case to evaporate enough for these people to no longer be under the cloud of a terrorism case, because it was embarrassingly fabricated. not to mention, the ordeal basically added weight to one of the authors' flippant remarks. total Inspector Clouseau type shit.
:france-cool: