Canadian anarchists torch bank
vast minority | 20.05.2010 17:47 | Tar Sands | Ecology | Social Struggles
ANARCHISTS claimed responsibility yesterday for a firebomb attack on a Royal Bank of Canada branch in the nation's capital and warned of more chaos at G8 and G20 summits in Toronto next month, reports AFP.
"The resistance continues," an unidentified group said, taking aim at RBC for financing the mining of oil sands in Alberta and for trampling native rights by sponsoring February's Winter Olympics.
Police told AFP an investigation is ongoing into Tuesday's early morning attack, but would not comment on the group's online posting.
The Games were held on stolen indigenous lands in Vancouver, the anarchists said. "The Vancouver Olympic Games are over, but a torch is still burning."
"G8 and G20 leaders and bankers are meeting (next month) in Huntsville and Toronto to make decisions that will further their policies of exploitation of people and the environment," the group said. "We will be there."
An online video posted by the group, which can be viewed on YouTube, shows the fireball bursting through the bank's windows in a blinding flash.
Police said witnesses saw "three or four males running from the scene" in Ottawa's smart Glebe neighborhood "and leaving the area in an SUV (sport utility) vehicle a short time before the fire was reported."
No one was injured, but the storefront was gutted and damage was "extensive," police said, adding in a statement that there were no further descriptions of the vehicle nor the suspects.
Some 4,000 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers will be on hand to provide security for the G8 and G20 summits from June 25 to 27.
Police told AFP an investigation is ongoing into Tuesday's early morning attack, but would not comment on the group's online posting.
The Games were held on stolen indigenous lands in Vancouver, the anarchists said. "The Vancouver Olympic Games are over, but a torch is still burning."
"G8 and G20 leaders and bankers are meeting (next month) in Huntsville and Toronto to make decisions that will further their policies of exploitation of people and the environment," the group said. "We will be there."
An online video posted by the group, which can be viewed on YouTube, shows the fireball bursting through the bank's windows in a blinding flash.
Police said witnesses saw "three or four males running from the scene" in Ottawa's smart Glebe neighborhood "and leaving the area in an SUV (sport utility) vehicle a short time before the fire was reported."
No one was injured, but the storefront was gutted and damage was "extensive," police said, adding in a statement that there were no further descriptions of the vehicle nor the suspects.
Some 4,000 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers will be on hand to provide security for the G8 and G20 summits from June 25 to 27.
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20.05.2010 19:12
C
Spacegoating provocation,check local Ottowa&Ontario @ groups http://linchpin.ca/
21.05.2010 20:30
First nations groups & established local anarchist groups are saying this is a scapegoat on anarchists on the media, nowhere does the video from the group say they are anarchists,
this could even be some kind of strategy of tension.
The headline to this should read, anarchists scapegoated, some would argue your even doing the states job, I reckon you just havent checked your sources
ps, my first & only airplaine flight in almost 20yrs ok!:),only other viable way is sail crewhanding or cargo ships, but cargo ships cost more unless you have a Mdoctor& then some can carry extra passengers.
syndicalist
Lightweights will always say more radical actions are agent provocateurs
23.05.2010 09:41
I say good luck to the arsonists AND to the fluffy people organising in different ways.
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?” - Bertolt Brecht
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