On the night of November 19/20, we attacked the power supply to two production sites of the Aubert and Duval Group:
– In Firminy, we sawed down a pylon of the 220 kV line that supplies the site. It only fell partially.
– In Ancizes-Comps, we also set fire to a 220 kV line where the high-voltage cables were laid underground. We were able to get to the bottom of the shafts without any danger and place our devices there.
The Aubert and Duval company is a central cog in the French military industry. It supplies parts for Naval Group submarines and for the Dassault Rafales and Framatom nuclear power plants.
Our action is in line with the International Call for a Week of Action Against All Wars from November 17-25, 2023, which was published on Iaata.info in early November (sorry, it’s a bit late…). We welcome this kind of initiative and in turn call for attacks on the military industry anywhere and everywhere.
What is certain is that our goal of influencing the military industry has been achieved. Although we do not have the means to know exactly how much damage we are doing, we know that these industries are aware that they are being targeted and that their vulnerabilities are being exposed by our actions.
“Behind the war are ordinary factories”
As the slogan left on the site of an aviation factory burnt down in Beauchastel in March 2023 so clearly underlines, this is where the war that we are told all day long must stop and that it is unjust begins; and it is also made possible thanks to seemingly harmless deals.
Everyone is aware that global conflicts are increasing in intensity. For almost two months, bombs have been falling on the residents of Gaza at an unprecedented rate and with broad political, military and financial support from the United States and most Western countries. The same people who call for a ceasefire, respect for civilians and international law are producing the bombs that massacre in ways they claim to condemn there or elsewhere, as several billion people live in war zones; with the horror that it produces and that we know about: rape, torture, forced displacement, etc. This hypocrisy would make us smile if it were not so macabre.
These wars are the tangible result of the military-industrial complex, its factories, its laboratories and its technicians. In France, the eight major defense companies – Airbus, Arquus, Dassault, MBDA, Naval Group, Nextor, Safran and Thales – are celebrating record sales. Some 4,000 companies work for defense with the active and permanent support of the state, which has earmarked a budget of 417 billion euros to increase its destructive power and export its arsenal around the world. Death machines that are used directly for massacres, as is the case with the Dassault fighter planes or the Nexter tanks and cannons that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are using in Yemen.
We do not intend to remain indifferent to this. We also want to send a message to the workers in these industries. May our actions deprive them of their jobs for a while and make them face up to their responsibilities. We also hope that these actions and the words we write about them will help to make these invisible factories of death visible.
Our thoughts are with those who fight for their freedom, to those who confront oppression.
Let’s attack everywhere!
source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/324270
translated for Abolition Media by Nae Midion