
From Indymedia Lille
December 10, 2024
Statement claiming responsibility for the attack on three electrical transformers in Toulouse on the night of December 2-3, 2024
That night, with light hearts, we wandered through the city in search of a bit of fresh air, a beautiful encounter, an adventure that the night knows how to welcome so well. And since it is impossible to walk 500 meters in this sad megalopolis without coming across one of these industrial horrors serving the widespread massacre in progress, the adventure quickly presented itself to us. Light hearts, but never insensitive or resigned, so we went to look for some treasures of our own making, which we scattered here and there, so that in a hoped-for big BOOM, these industries of death would finally be extinguished.
The French aeronautics and space sector, the leading sector in Europe (civil and military combined), concentrates the majority of the management bodies and operational headquarters of European groups and programs and covers the entire technological spectrum related to aerospace (including nuclear ballistics). At the national level, the most important hub of this sector (educational institutes, research laboratories, production plants, etc.) is located in Toulouse.
We operated on three sites, two in the south and one in the north. We lifted trapdoors, and set fire to the cables hidden within them. In one of the enclosures we attacked a high-voltage line, where the sheath went underground. No mention of these acts in the media, and yet the flames were dancing high when we left the scene, leaving little doubt as to the success of our operation...
We acted on the eve of the annual aerospace and aeronautics show, among the most important in the world in this field. We were counting on spoiling their party. Let them know that the recalcitrants have not said their last word! This city is sadly famous for the proliferation of its industries of death, but it has also seen a resurgence of anti-militarist agitation in recent years: demonstrations and rallies, public screenings and discussions, graffiti on recruitment offices, disruption of events, deployment of banners and sticking of anti-war posters on 150 JC Decaux bicycles, leafleting against the SNU, blocking of high schools against the massacre in Gaza, actions against Thalès, Apside, Carrefour, Latécoère, sabotage of SNCF lines…
Through our action, we tried to cut off the power to part of this "industrial flagship" (aeronautics, armaments, technologies) owned in particular by the French state.
We could just as well have cut off the electricity to the former SNPE (Heracles - Ariane) chemical site located in the heart of the city, but for fear of creating a new AZF - or of reviving the memory of it - we changed our minds. What can we say about a world that is constantly building these time bombs, which are just waiting for a spark to cause a new industrial disaster? Is it in the name of progress, of the promise of a world free of all diseases, that we see the earth being poisoned a little more each day? How ironic!
Furthermore, we did not particularly want to harm the inhabitants of the neighboring neighborhoods. But the way things are organized leaves us little choice. Faced with their wars of conquest and colonization, inter-state rivalries and control over the raw materials essential to the mutation of capitalism, we have chosen our side. Faced with their industrial wars against rivers and oceans, against mountains and ice caps, from the subsoil to the stars, we have chosen our side. Faced with their social wars against the exploited, women, the misfits, the deserters of gender and race, the indigenous people, we have chosen our side. Faced with their technological wars against what grows and what resists the machine, we have chosen our side. Against their wars: our side is that of solidarity, of struggle, of mutual aid, of the offensive and of rebellious love against all States, all industries, all the slaughterers of life... and of freedom.
The conflict is becoming more widespread, Russia and NATO are promising us a third world war. So, faced with this unstable world, don't we want to ask ourselves a few questions? How long can we afford to look the other way, or make do with a meager humanitarian contribution? How do we imagine reacting if the conflict draws closer? If, as the state plans, military service is reestablished, and a whole category of people are sent to fight in the war? If the factory, the offices where you work are requisitioned and put to the service of this same war? Do we know where the military supply convoys pass through? Do we know how to provide care? Do we want to rely on the state to guarantee our security, which has proven time and time again that this is not its primary concern? After all, if it does not hesitate to expose us to industrial risks, why would it be more concerned about our security in the event of war?
There are still old men and women who remember the times when the word war was not a distant abstraction. People have always had to resist the warlike tendencies of their leaders. We will not escape it. They refused to be cannon fodder, we will refuse to be drone fodder. Far from wanting to seem alarmist, this is an invitation to reflection, to discussion, to the refusal of passivity. Talk about it to your neighbor, in the queue at the bakery, after the next war movie you go to see. Talk away from prying ears (phones are ears!). Ask yourself who you can count on, and how to defend yourself against those who could harm you. If "We can't change the world", we are still masters of our own lives.
We could not end this statement without sending all the warmth of our incendiary night to the comrades of Greece and elsewhere who are suffering the hard loss of Kyriakos, an anarchist who recently died following an apartment explosion, and the repression that follows. You are in our thoughts. Courage.
Thanks to the diehards of the ZAD against the A69, whose courage and determination strengthen ours. One occupation may be over (and long live the sabotage against the construction companies!), but others are born, because we will never give up. And what these pieces of freedom torn from reality bring us, they will never be able to take away from us! Courage, and solidarity with those who are suffering the state's counteroffensive following this struggle.
Solidarity with those who resist the genocidal war unleashed by the State of Israel (which supplies itself here in Toulouse to equip the IDF). Solidarity with activists, anarchists, environmentalists, indigenous peoples who resist the military aggression of States and paramilitaries. We think of Kanaky, Martinique, Mayotte, Kurdistan, ...
Thank you also to all the comrades who act against the war, and more generally, to those who try to resist it, in the way that seems most appropriate to them. Strength to you!
Signed: the new aeronautical CNT
Ps: For an idea of the staggering number of these companies, here is a non-exhaustive list of those we were able to reach:
- in the north: the Airbus factories in Colomiers & Blagnac, Eads ATR, Safran, Dassault, Stelia Aerospace, Latécoère, British Aerospace, Daher, SopraSteria, Atos, Bolloré Logistics, Collins Aerospace, Alyotech, Groupe Mecachrome, Actia Automotive, ...
- in the south: Airbus Defence & Space, Cassidian, the cluster of SMEs and startups developing drones located at Labège Innopôle, Diodon Drone Technology, the Toulouse Space Center, Ansys, Delair, EADS Defense & Security Systems, Magellium, Nexeya, Soditech, Millinav, ...
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