{"id":551,"date":"2022-09-28T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anarchistburecross.noblogs.org\/?p=551"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:23:11","slug":"a-letter-from-anarchist-comrade-ivan-from-the-prison-of-villepinte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anarchistburecross.noblogs.org\/en-US\/post\/2022\/09\/28\/a-letter-from-anarchist-comrade-ivan-from-the-prison-of-villepinte\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter from Anarchist Comrade Ivan, from the prison of Villepinte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on Act for freedom now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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I am writing to share a few thoughts and to send some news.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to begin with something that illustrates the methods of the legal system very well. A few days after my arrest the judge conducting the enquiry, St\u00e9phanie Lahaye, sent two cops of the SDAT [the Anti-terrorism Sub-Direction of the judicial police] (among whom judicial police officer \u00abRIO 1237232\u00bb\u00a0 \u2013 like machines, they are called by numbers) to interrogate my daughter and her mother. Obeying her orders, following the procedures of the State justice system they tried to put pressure on a young girl of 12 years. After making her wait in the courtyard of the barracks of the local cop station during her mother\u2019s interrogation, they wanted to question her alone.<\/p>\n

Her mother obviously refused to abandon her. An ordinary procedure, banal, a necessary act to establish the truth according to judges and cops. In my opinion, an attempt to spread fear. A warning to my dear ones and to everyone that, in the inquisitorial logic of the Law, persons who are or who put themselves alongside an anarchist accused of direct actions are suspect and must be inconvenienced<\/span>This is similar to the logic that was used against me. When the same OPJ, during the GAV hearings [questioning when arrested], asked me \u2013 accused me \u2013 of giving my support to anarchists imprisoned in France and other countries. Of having written to them and every now and then sent them a little money. Of course, I have often written to many imprisoned compas and have done my best to express my solidarity to them.<\/p>\n

Because they are anarchists and also because I am convinced of the justice of and need for the actions that some of them are accused of. I think that solidarity, by any means necessary, with compas hit by repression is fundamental. Avoiding open solidarity with them for fear that repression would spread would be playing into the hands of Justice, accepting its logic. A logic that would make us retreat more and more, to the point of abandoning, or almost abandoning, imprisoned revolutionaries.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s come to the facts for which I am currently in pre-trial detention. Here is the list of the fire-attacks:<\/p>\n