THEY ARE JUSTIFIED IN BURNING THE PRISONS

Overcrowding, torture, injuries, lack of medical care, threats, isolation, the complete annihilation of the individual and his or her desires.

This is the daily reality in the prisons.

The prisons are the dungeons of the State, where it locks up those who revolt, where it locks up those who are not subservient, those who break the laws created for the maintenance of social misery and a system founded on exploitation, exclusion, oppression and repression.

The rebellion is ours.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISONERS IN STRUGGLE

March 7 - Riot in the prison of Ittre

April 23 - Riot in the prison of Mons

April 27- Attack against two screws [prison guards] in the prison of Turnhout

May 16 - Fire in the prison of Nivelles

[Translated from a poster in French]
[Also published in the anarchist journal "Cette Semaine" number 89, June 2006, p. 39, cettesemaine.free.fr]

Riot at the prison of Mons

On April 23, 2006, more than 45 detainees of the prison of Mons revolted. They occupied the courtyard and refused to return to their cells, and they fought against the attacks of the police...

The press sighs and complains, the detainees have still not put forward demands or communicated their reasons for revolting. Nevertheless, we know that the prisoners always have, at every moment, at every second of their detention, reason to revolt. Like at Ittre at the beginning of March, the prison of Mons has cracked.

At around 7:30pm, some of the prisoners refused to return to their cells. They occupied the courtyard and drove out the guards. The detainees dismantled a football goalie's net and gathered all the equipment they could find. Fortunately for them, there was a construction site. Surveillance equipment was smashed.

Afterwards, the detainees set fire to the entrance door. When the police, accompanied by Civil Protection servants, considered themselves ready to take the yard at 9:30pm, the prisoners attacked them with pieces of concrete. Then the rioters defended themselves with iron bars and sticks. At midnight, the police succeeded in pushing the prisoners back into their cells and re-established "order".

For the moment there aren't any charges brought against the rioters, but the Prosecutor claims that they were filmed and that the prisoners can certainly be identified. It is necessary to carry ski masks!

Solidarity with the rioters of the prison of Mons!

Every day humiliation and detention?

Every day revolt!

[From "La Cavale", correspondence of the struggle against prison, number 2, May-June 2006, p4]
[Also published in the anarchist journal "Cette Semaine" number 89, June 2006, p. 39, cettesemaine.free.fr]

Insurrectionary Anarchists of the Coast Salish Territories