Violence, what use is it?
Anselm Jappe, value form critic and biographer of Guy Debord, looks at the issue of violence in contemporary Europe.
What is the visible face of violence in France? For someone who regularly travels all over Europe the first image of violence one sees on arriving at a station or an airport is the police. I have never seen so many police in France as there are presently, especially in Paris; even in Turkey during the military dictatorship.
Judicial controls on the "Tarnac Ten" lightened
Submitted by BNB on Dec 19 2009 18:09
Translation of article that appeared 18 December 2009 in the French press.
Judicial supervision of Julien Coupat lightened
http://www.notbored.org/lifted.html
On Friday, the court annulled the majority of the obligations that the ten people in the so-called "Tarnac" group must respect.
Statement from the "Tarnac Ten": Why we will no longer respect the judicial restraints placed upon us
Translation of statement that appeared in "Le Monde," 4 December 2009.
Why we will no longer respect the judicial restraints placed upon us
http://www.notbored.org/tarnac-ten.html
Supporters of "Tarnac Nine": Unauthorized visit to the SDAT
Submitted by BNB on Nov 30 2009 20:07
Translation of statement of the French Committee, Support for those indicted on 11 November.
Unauthorized visit to the SDAT[1]
http://www.notbored.org/SDAT.html
The so-called evidence against the Tarnac Nine
Submitted by BNB on Nov 27 2009 04:20
Article from Liberation, published 25 November 2009. Translated from the French by NOT BORED!
Tarnac: Witness X and his rigged testimony
The police put pressure on Jean-Hugues Bourgeois and backdated the surveillance report of his interview so as to condemn Julien Coupat's group.
Press conference concerning Tarnac
Submitted by BNB on Nov 26 2009 17:11
Press conference held 25 November 2009. Translation of news account.
Tarnac: politicians and lawyers denounce "a criminal procedure under the cover of [fighting] terrorism"
At a press conference on Wednesday at the National Assembly, several deputies and three lawyers for the nine people indicted in the Tarnac Affair denounced "an affair of State, "a criminal procedure under the cover of [fighting] terrorism" and a State that is "more and more opaque."
New arrest in "Tarnac Nine" case
"Communique concerning this morning's arrest" from the 11 November Support Committee
Communique concerning this morning's arrest.
http://www.notbored.org/new-arrest.html
Claude Guillon, Introduction to "Democratic Terrorization"
Translation of introduction by Claude Guillon to his 2009 book, "Democratic Terrorization, on antiterrorism laws in France.
Democratic Terrorization
Introduction by Claude Guillon
http://www.notbored.org/guillon-introduction.html
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