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German anarchists 'declare war on state'

Vast minority | 04.12.2009 19:39 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

ANARCHIST attacks on police stations and political offices in Berlin and Hamburg over Thursday night were a “declaration of war” on the state, the head of the German Police Union (DPoIG) has claimed.

Reported The Local, an English-language news site in Germany, on Friday December 4: "Unknown perpetrators, assumed to be left-wing extremists, threw Molotov cocktails, paint bombs and cobblestones at Berlin’s Treptow district Federal Criminal Police (BKA) office overnight.

"Meanwhile local offices for the centre-left Social Democrats and the conservative Christian Democrats were also vandalised with anti-war graffiti.

"Around the same time in Hamburg, about 10 masked perpetrators attacked a police precinct in the Schanzenviertel neighbourhood, setting a police cruiser alight, damaging other police cars and breaking windows with stones.

"On Friday afternoon the Berliner Morgenpost also reported that a southern wing of the Chancellory had also been vandalised with three Christmas tree decoration bulbs full of paint."

The paper quoted DPoIG leader Rainer Wendt as saying that though no one was injured in either of the attacks they were a sign of a “new escalation in the spiral of violence”.

“The attacks were anything but spontaneous, and executed in an almost professional manner,” he said.

The Police Union took the incidents so seriously on Friday that they encouraged the conference of state interior ministers, currently underway in Bremen, to take immediate action, hardening criminal prison sentences for attacks on officers and increasing police personnel.

An 84-page study presented by Berlin Interior Minister Ehrhart Körting this November detailed left-wing violence in the German capital, describing the anarchists as “willing to hazard the consequences of major property damage and severe injury to people.”

In 2009, some 125 cars – many of them luxury status-symbol models – were purposely burned by Autonomen in Berlin. The number has more than doubled since last year, when 72 cars were targeted. Police in Hamburg reported 150 burned cars – 16 of which were proven to be politically motivated.

Wendt said without government support, such incidents will continue to occur.

“The investigation goes on, but I have little hope it will be successful,” he said. “This is a declaration of the war on the police and on the state.”

 http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091204-23713.html

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please start this here

04.12.2009 20:58

please can someone start a declaration of war on the british state, too?
lets see the fires burning for real...

a hopeful uk resident


'same in the UK'

04.12.2009 21:17

... do it yourself.

DIY


solidarity with any attack on the state but...

04.12.2009 21:42

its gotta be remembered what tactics like this have achieved in the past.

in germany, for one example, the attacks by the red army faction were used as an excuse to push through much more draconian and stringent state powers. in greece more recently, this type of action has lead to exactly the same thing.

there isn't YET the cohesive working class conciousness or movement whereby this can be translated into popular action. before a full scale war on the state could possibly yield effective results, a united working class with the support of (dare i say it) a significant swathe of the middle class needs to be educated to the point where there will widespread backing and support. the capitalist media still informs the opinion of way too many.



b


Could it really be any worse?

05.12.2009 00:04

> the attacks by the red army faction were used as an excuse to push through much more draconian and stringent state powers.

I'm not sure how NuLabour could top their already extensive campaign to systematically destroy civil rights and individual freedoms in the UK, so why not give it a go?

Concerned Citizen


RE concerned citizen

05.12.2009 01:08

>I'm not sure how NuLabour could top their already extensive campaign to systematically destroy civil rights and individual freedoms in the UK, so why not give it a go<

i take your point, things are getting worse and its important to recognise that but compared to what most activists in europe have to deal with right now, i.e., the danish law getting rushed through, GREECE, and talk to anyone who's been working in calais, we've got it comparitively easy.

all im saying is, dont start throwing molotovs in the street while 99% of the population will turn you into the state first chance they get.



b


fucking idiots

06.12.2009 21:48

temper tantrum middle class fools .. and i can guarantee none of them are involved with people where they live and i would say work but i doubt they do .. you want to change the world start with your neighbour and your colleague your friends and your family .. this 'insurrectionist' nonsense in the post is simply a mirror of the wrong that is capitalism and the alienation and hierarchy it produces ... it just enables the state to control us .. what the state can not control is democracy from the base

durruti02


Solidarity means attack

07.12.2009 15:20

Social war in Europe

Free Alfredo


solidarity measn looking after your neighbours

08.12.2009 19:51

.. insurrection is mindless bollox that is easy for the state to deal with, plays into the hands of the state and is probably supported by the state. read John Barker on LibCom about his years in the AB ;)

DO2


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