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Direct Action Germany: 18th-29th March

direct action news from germany | 31.03.2009 16:13 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

29/03/2009 - Luxury Car torched (Berlin)
26/03/2009 - Two Thor Steinar shops attacked simultaneously (Berlin)
21-22/03/2009 - Attacks against Siemens and a cleaning company (Berlin)
20/03/2009 - Car burned on the worker's parking place of the JSA Plötzensee (prison) (Berlin)
18/03/2009 - Autonome storm the stand of the German-Nationalists (Freiburg)
18/03/2009 - Three vans of DHL torched (Karlsruhe)

Luxury Car torched (Berlin)
Luxury Car torched (Berlin)

Two Thor Steinar shops attacked simultaneously (Berlin)
Two Thor Steinar shops attacked simultaneously (Berlin)

Attacks against Siemens and a cleaning company (Berlin)
Attacks against Siemens and a cleaning company (Berlin)


Luxury Car torched

Berlin 29th March 2009

A claim which reached our mailbox:

"In the night of the 29th of March, we torched a Mercedes near
Treptower Park in Berlin´s district Treptow.
With this small contribution in the ongoing social war, we send
warm greetings to the comrades in Chile, who are keeping the
fighting memory alive.

Here as there, rebellious hearts against domination in all its
forms."

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Two Thor Steinar shops attacked simultaneously in Berlin

Berlin, the 26 of March 2009

Two Thor Steinar shops have been attacked from masked up men.
Windows got smashed and clothes damaged, nobody got hurted.
The police believe a politically motivated attack, probably from the left radical or autonomous scene.

Around 11am four masked up bike riders passed the shop sited in the Petersburgerstraße in Friedrichshain and threw cobblestones against the windows. Afterwards, a „strong and disgusting material“ flew in reaching the back part of the store. The authors flew away.

Almost at the same time, four other masked up persons went to the other Thor Steinar shop sited in Mitte and spraypainted color inside the store, afterwards they flew away. A 23 years old worker has been cured since she complained about not being able to breeth.
The trademark Thor Steinar is know as symbol of neonazis and rigth wing extremists.
Since the inauguration of the shop, there have been always protests, demonstrations walked to the store, stones and color have been threw.
Lately the shop got his contract cancelled by the house keeper.

Source: Morgenpost

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Attacks against Siemens and a cleaning company

Berlin, 21/22 of March 2009

Cars burned again in Berlin. During the weekend seven cars falled victim of presumed left radicals arsonists. By this, the number of burned cars (in Berlin 2009) reached 50, say a police spokeperson.

At first, on saturday morning unknown persons set fire to three cars in Reinickendorf.
Inhabitants noticed flames on two VW Touran, which were parked next to each other in the Lindauer Allee, around 6.15am and alarmed cops and fire brigade.
About the same time, another Touran went on flames in the Brusebergstraße.
Two further cars have been damaged by the flames.
The three cars targeted are belonging to the company Siemens, state security investigates since they believe a political motivation behind the actions.

In the night to yesterday, cars burned in Kreuzberg and Neukölln: a small van of a cleaning company got torched in the Blücherstraße, the cleaning material went also on flames.
Around 4.20am, a van burned in the Ringbahnstraße, state security investigates, believing the authors to come from the left scene.

Source: Berliner Zeitung

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Car burned on the worker's parking place of the JSA Plötzensee (prison)

Berlin, the 20 of March 2009

A car burned yesterday evening in the Friedrich-Olbricht-Damm in Charlottenburg.
Two workers of the JSA Plötzensee (which is a prison of Berlin) noticed two men around 9pm, who were close to an Opel car parked on the parking place of the prison workers.
Shortly afterwards they heard a loud noise and the car was in flames. The two alleged authors could escape in direction Saatwinkler Damm. The car got completely burned, criminal police investigates.

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Autonome storm the stand of the German-Nationalists

Freiburg, the 18 of March 2009

A group of people from the autonomous scene attacked and overthrew an election-stand of the german-nationalist party „German future“ which was set up in the Bertoldsbrunnen.
Nobody got injured.

The police speak of five or six people which took action around 4pm, a witness from the antifa scene speaks of ten to fifthteen masked up people.
The autonome antifa described the „German future“ as a split group of the right wing „Republikaner“.

Source: fudder.de

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Three vans of DHL torched

Karlsruhe, the 18 of March 2009

In the night to the past wednesday, three vans of the DHL have been torched around 3.30am on the parking place of the DHL logistic center sited in the Rüppurrer Straße, causing a damage of around 120.000€.

Two vand were completely burned while the fire on the third one had been partly stop by the fire brigade. During the day of wednesday, a claim reached several local medias, signed by a yet unknown group called „militant antimilitarists“.

The attack could be linked to the upcoming protests against the Nato meeting in Baden-Baden, Kehl and Strasbourg taking place on the 3 and 4 of April.
As also the claim of the „militant antimilitarists“ explains.

Source: ka-news

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