Arson against police training building and attack of security services vehicles

The (under con­struc­tion) Police Firearms Train­ing Cen­tre in Black Rock Quar­ry, Por­tishead, sit­u­at­ed direct­ly beneath the Avon and Som­er­set Police region­al head­quar­ters was our tar­get on the night of 26th August, and we left it with flames lick­ing high. The facil­i­ty is intend­ed to serve forces across the South West.

After climb­ing into the quar­ry we used accel­er­ant to burn the major elec­tri­cal cables at five junc­tion points through­out the com­plex, and doused and light­ed a pal­let of elec­tri­cal fit­tings and wires. More than twelve hours lat­er the fire is still burn­ing. It put smiles on our faces to realise how easy it was to enter their gun club and leave a fuck you sig­na­ture right in the bel­ly of the beast, with a curi­ous fox as our only wit­ness.

On the same night oth­ers of us attacked two vehi­cles near St George, Bris­tol with paint strip­per and by slash­ing the tyres — one G4S and one Amey. In the UK and glob­al­ly G4S pro­vide prison and secu­ri­ty ser­vices and prof­it from many aspects of prison soci­ety. Amey, in a joint ven­ture with GEO trans­port pris­on­ers in Eng­land and Wales and run cour­t­hous­es in Bris­tol and North Som­er­set.

In the City around us the lock down increas­es; there is a gen­er­al atmos­phere of ris­ing fear and pow­er­less­ness; there is more and more sur­veil­lance, and secu­ri­ty guards with hand­cuffs appear on more and more doors. Ten­sions across the world are sim­mer­ing as peo­ple lose faith in the sys­tem. As a response to this inse­cu­ri­ty the state is mil­i­taris­ing it’s police with firearms, remote con­trol drones and ‘non-lethal’ weapons that reg­u­lar­ly kill. At the same time they devel­op the pre­ven­ta­tive ‘soft cop’ buffer of com­mu­ni­ty sup­port offi­cers, liai­son teams and so on, that are more fit­ting with the demo­c­ra­t­ic image. They even get some help from left­ists such as John Drury from Aufheben with his con­tri­bu­tions on crowd con­trol, who is as ter­ri­fied of the unman­age­able as the rul­ing class­es are. The British state is a world leader in counter-insur­gency tech­niques. Their exper­tise is the result of gen­er­a­tions long bru­tal coloni­sa­tion, like in India, Kenya and to this day in Ire­land.

Two years after the major UK riots we think an impor­tant door was opened for rad­i­cal and com­bat­ive refusal of our dai­ly exis­tence on a wide scale. For those of us who took to the streets it was a breath of clean air in the dun­geons, a reminder that the encroach­ment and con­trol is not com­plete. Even when the apa­thy and iso­la­tion seems to have tak­en hold again we con­tin­ue our attacks. The police and secu­ri­ty indus­try spe­cialise in mak­ing us feel pow­er­less in our own lives, and mak­ing these attacks goes a long way to over­com­ing this feel­ing.

This is also our way of mark­ing two years that Bris­tol anar­chist Bad­ger has evad­ed cap­ture after the riots. Stay free, keep fight­ing!

Speak­ing of which, the night of our action coin­cides with the announced start of the planned cull of wild bad­gers in the South West of Eng­land. Through attempt­ing to facil­i­tate the cull and stop resis­tance the police shore up the inter­ests of agri­cul­tur­al indus­try and the land own­ing class­es. We hope this will be one of many rebel­lions against this slaugh­ter. Because the state and cor­po­rate secu­ri­ty forces are inte­gral to this world of exploita­tion and author­i­ty.

Our best wish­es to the Greek anar­chist Kostas Sakkas in recov­ery from a suc­cess­ful hunger strike for pre-tri­al release after 30 months on remand.

The strug­gle will con­tin­ue until all are wild and free.

-Angry Fox­es Cell in col­lab­o­ra­tion with ACAB

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From the BBC:

An anar­chist group has claimed it start­ed a fire which ripped through a police firearms train­ing cen­tre being built in Som­er­set.

A pass­ing offi­cer spot­ted the blaze at the Black Rock cen­tre in Por­tishead in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day.

In a post on the Bris­tol Indy­media web­site, the group, called “Angry Fox­es Cell”, says it “used accel­er­ant to burn the major elec­tri­cal cables”.

Police said it is too ear­ly to decide “cause or respon­si­bil­i­ty”.

The cen­tre, which is being built at Black Rock Quar­ry, is to be used by the Avon and Som­er­set, Glouces­ter­shire and Wilt­shire forces.

The facil­i­ty, which will con­tain two indoor fir­ing ranges and class­rooms, is due to open in Jan­u­ary.

It is part of a Pri­vate Finance Ini­tia­tive (PFI) deal, worth more than £100m, which will also see police sta­tions and oth­er oper­a­tional facil­i­ties built in Patch­way, Keyn­sham and Bridg­wa­ter.