anachist arsonist attack on dutch company building deportation prisons

[Sasha]

the folowing statement appeared an hour ago on the dutch indymedia:


Strukton Firebombed AA 16-6-2010
AA - 16.06.2010 15:54

A new consortium is going to build a new migrant detention centre at Schiphol Airport! One of the participants is Strukton which makes a profit out of the detention of people who will be deported.

That was one of the reasons for us, Anarchist Arsonists, to break the silence. We want to put action where our mouth is, so in the early hours of July the 16th we set fire to the head office of Strukton in Maarssen.

In the early hours of August 23rd The Anarchist Fire sabotaged the construction of a new migrant detention centre at Rotterdam Airport. They called on everyone to set fire to the systems that seek to destroy people. Meanwhile it is almost a year ago and nothing happened. Well, nothing happened? A new consortium is going to build a new migrant detention centre at Schiphol Airport! One of the participants is Strukton which makes a profit out of the detention of people who will be deported.

That was one of the reasons for us, Anarchist Arsonists, to break the silence. We want to put action where our mouth is, so in the early hours of July the 16th we set fire to the head office of Strukton in Maarssen.

Our action is aimed at the horrible situation of incarcerated migrants. Fire is meant to destroy buildings and systems, not people as happened five years ago at Schiphol. We therefore call on people to help us in our struggle against the system which kills innocent people.



ANARCHIST ARSONISTS


initial police reports indicate that indeed there was an arsonist fire in maarssen this morning.

[Coggeh]

Our action is aimed at the horrible situation of incarcerated migrants. Fire is meant to destroy buildings and systems, not people as happened five years ago at Schiphol. We therefore call on people to help us in our struggle against the system which kills innocent people.

So their going to kill the migrant workers as a solution ?

[bcbm]

So their going to kill the migrant workers as a solution ?


what?

[Crusade]

I reject and denounce the actions of these individuals.

[Ele'ill]

What did the act accomplish?

[pierrotlefou]

What did the act accomplish?
maybe they're hoping to inspire people to get angry, albeit anger without any real direction.

[Ele'ill]

maybe they're hoping to inspire people to get angry, albeit anger without any real direction.


The only people that this action is going to inspire to get angry are those already angry enough to do this type of action. This type of action with its frequency of occurrence only takes place when there is a lack of community support.

[Black Sheep]

Fire is meant to destroy buildings and systems, not people
Lol.
Fire fetishism ftw

[An archist]

What did the act accomplish?

It might scare other companies that are thinking about building prisons for refugees.

[this is an invasion]

moar class violence please

[MortyMingledon]

maybe they're hoping to inspire people to get angry, albeit anger without any real direction.

yeah, angry at the anarchists...

[bcbm]

What did the act accomplish?

fire damage to the headquarters of scum who make a profit off the detention of immigrants, didn't you read the op?

[this is an invasion]

yeah, angry at the anarchists...

Um, what sort of people are going to be mad about this?

Liberals and reactionaries? Alright, I'm fine with that.

[Sasha]

Not to say I support this kind of actions (i would be stupid to do as the dutch secretservice is all over this) but these kind of actions have an successfully tradition in the Netherlands. In the 80s a firebombing campaign by the infamous RARA made several big dutch multinationals pull out of southafrica

[dawt]

Can't say I don't sympathise here. It'd been favourable to try a few less drastical options first to shut these fuckers down, but let's face it: Slim chances of anything happening, while those assholes make money of of mistreating innocent people.
Direct Action is really the only way to go here. Burning down those bastards' HQ on the other hand ... should've been more of a last resort.

[Sasha]

well, to be fair, there has been an constant campaign of pickets, occupations and noisedemonstrations of the last years.
this is not an free standing act but an escalation and diversitation in tactics.

[this is an invasion]

Can't say I don't sympathise here. It'd been favourable to try a few less drastical options first to shut these fuckers down, but let's face it: Slim chances of anything happening, while those assholes make money of of mistreating innocent people.
Direct Action is really the only way to go here. Burning down those bastards' HQ on the other hand ... should've been more of a last resort.

I can see what you're saying but I really dislike it when people say things should be a "last resort." It seems like a really vague statement and one that can be thrown at any action without having a real analysis or critique (not saying this is you). Anyone can say "oh we should have only done this action as a last resort" but what does that mean? What is the dividing line between the time when an action is unacceptable or it isn't?

[Sasha]

people intrested in the RARA history could start here btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaRa

note that the wikipedia atrical has some serious ommisions, like the fact that both the dutch actvists scene and the secret service always diffrentated between the fisrt rara group that did the quite unsophisticated makro fires and the second that did some serious high tech bombing actions.
although they share simmilarities and the style of the communiques seem to indicate that al least some of the members of the first where also involved with the second group, the advanced explosives the second group used always raised supicions in the dutch activist movement wheter or not they where as involved in the autonomus movement as the first.

[Saorsa]

So their going to kill the migrant workers as a solution ?

They burned down the company HQ, not a detention centre filled with people.

Good for them

[Sasha]

Um, what sort of people are going to be mad about this?

Liberals and reactionaries? Alright, I'm fine with that.

funny enough there hasnt been almost any mention about this in the media, and while this action didnt do as much damage so that makes it understandable, when they burned down the construction site last year there was also hardly any upoar.
and its not that the state is surpressing this, there has been a steady stream of puplic secret service rapports about the "escalating leftwing extremism"
the media and the public just dont realy seem to care.

[An archist]

It's also good to say that this isn't just an isolated arson attack by activists. There have been several cases of undocumented migrants setting fire to their cells and in some cases (Steenokkerzeel and Vincennes for example) destroying entire sections of the prison.
This a struggle that's going on inside and outside of these prisons, with protests, peaceful direct actions, revolts, concerts, arson attacks, occupations of churches and empty buildings, ...
These actions are kind of a last resort. There have been years of protest and stil new prisons are being built.

[dawt]

Alrighty! See, I had no knowledge of the events preceeding the attack, although I could've probably guessed because it's similar here. Whatever, maybe I was tired. Or high or something. :bored:

[Delenda Carthago]

It's also good to say that this isn't just an isolated arson attack by activists. There have been several cases of undocumented migrants etting fire to their cells and in some cases (Steenokkerzeel and Vincennes for example) destroying entire sections of the prison.
This a struggle that's going on inside and outside of these prisons, with protests, peaceful direct actions, revolts, concerts, arson attacks, occupations of churches and empty buildings, ...
These actions are kind of a last resort. There have been years of protest and stil new prisons are being built.
irrelevant.people in revleft disagree and that's the whole point.

[Sasha]

(google translated) solidarity statement by the anarchist collective utrecht


Solidarity Statement attack Strukton


AK Utrecht - 22/06/2010 7:16 p.m. On the night of June 16, there was a fire bomb attack on the headquarters building Strukton in Maarssen. The "Anarchist Arsonist 'claimed the attack in a brief statement, which clearly stated that the atack was directed against the involvement of Strukton when building a new detention center for immigrants at Rotterdam Airport (Zestienhoven). From a press release from the police its seems that, unfortunately, the fire was discovered fairly quickly and could be extinguished. AK Utrecht (Utrecht Anarchist Collective) declares its solidarity with the attack.

Since the declaration of the 'Anrchist Arsonist ", probably because of sensible security, was limited to a brief statement, we would like to expand about Strukton and migration.

Strukton is part of the consortium DC16, that not only builds the detention center, but in the context of so-called public-private partnership (PPP), the next 25 years also will be managing. The consortium, which also consists of Ballast Nedam, EGM Architects, engineers and Smits Burgst of ISS Facility Services, annually earns more than 7 million euros. It is scandalous that these companies earn money at the expense of the people trapped in the detention center.
There are no fixed time limits for detention, that go up to 18 months at a time
.
People are in a hopeless situation where uncertainty reigns. The refugees prisons have a 'sober' regime, with far fewer capabilities than traditional prisons. There is also poor access to legal and medical help. Health problems are almost standard handled by giving a paracetamol tablet.

More than the conditions in which migrants are detained, the problem is that they are imprissoned at all. We stand for the abolition of borders and nations. Everyone should be able to decide where he or she resides.
The Dutch (and European) migration is getting more stringent all the time. Extensive measures are repeatedly taken to keep migrants abroad.
But people are not without reason fleeing this way
.
Worldwide, approximately 40 million people are fleeing poverty, hunger, war, oppression or because of climate change, problems that directly result from the capitalist practice
.
Our western prosperity is a very large part built on the exploitation and oppression of people in the rest of the world. It is not surprising that people flee to countries with comparatively more freedom and better life opportunities. But when they come here, however, a wall of mistrust, exclusion and detention awaits them.

Not the immigrants are the problem, but the capitalist system that forces people to seek their fortunes elsewhere. We must work out an end to this system that has the whole world in his iron grip, and replace it with a freer, fairer and more humane world. A world where people can live free in partnerships based on non-hierarchy and collective decision making and reciprocal assistance.

Attacks against companies should be by no means a controversial action. We believe that such actions are also part of the wide range of methods used to fight in the resistance against the capitalist system.

No borders, no nations, stop deportations!
Capitalism is the problem - resistance is the solution!

Anarchist Collective Utrecht