80 Arrested At Spontaneous Protests Over #ZAD Remi Fraisse’s Assassination By French Police

Octo­ber 30th, 2014

80 peo­ple have been arrest­ed sim­ply for speak­ing up against state ter­ror and cap­i­tal­ism, by a total pan­icked riot police force in Paris des­per­ate to repress spon­ta­neous demon­stra­tions over the exe­cu­tion of 21 year old Remi Fraisse at Testet.

The streets of Paris, Lyon and oth­er cities have been cov­ered in anti-cap­i­tal­ist, anti-police and anti-state mes­sages; the signs of rage over the assas­si­na­tion by the police of a 21 year old paci­fist, and defend­er of the Testet for­est.

Cops encir­cled peo­ple, trapped them, cap­tured them and dragged them to police vans sim­ply for being on the streets and speak­ing up, such police bru­tal­i­ty and abus­es sim­ply remind of well known total­i­tar­i­an regimes, deplored by Europe all over the world, except in Europe.

Remi Fraisse died on the spot when he was hit by a tear gas grenade fired by riot police Sat­ur­day night dur­ing the repres­sion of a protest in the Testet for­est to stop a dam which will prof­it some indus­tri­al farm­ers at the cost of destroy­ing 40 ha of for­est.

Wit­ness­es’ tes­ti­monies forced cops to admit they killed Remi. A state offi­cial called him “stu­pid” for “dying for an idea”. While state offi­cials are try­ing to con­trol the pub­lic rage over the police killing by claim­ing that patience is need­ed for “prop­er inves­ti­ga­tion”, the boss of riot police said that Remi’s mur­der was a fatal­i­ty and that no cop will be sus­pend­ed. He hint­ed no cop will be held account­able either. Images filmed just pri­or to Remi’s assas­si­na­tion expose the bar­barism of the police and their bru­tal­i­ty in repress­ing the protests.

Images above have been aired by France 2 aired and they prove the bar­barism of the police repres­sion against ZAD. Cops fired with intent to kill, unlike what their boss says, they fired tear gas grenades at peo­ple who were sev­er­al meters from them.

Hun­dreds gath­ered in spon­ta­neous demon­stra­tions, called “ille­gal” by the French media, in Paris, trig­ger­ing a mas­sive deploy­ment of cops. 200 peo­ple were inter­ro­gat­ed by police for sim­ply being on the streets. Cops tried to stir vio­lence, they encir­cled over 100 pro­tes­tors around the town hall and tried to ket­tle them. Protests are announced in Italy tomor­row, too.The chief of riot police claims that cops have the right to kill because “they did not have the inten­tion” to mur­der Remi, he says it’s not “con­ceiv­able” to sus­pend cops over the assas­si­na­tion of Remi. This cop posi­tioned him­self above any state law, since pros­e­cu­tors claim that the “inves­ti­ga­tions” of Remi’s assas­si­na­tion con­tin­ue. Appar­ent­ly, anyone’s life is can­celled just at the sight of cops in Europe, since they are not respon­si­ble when they fire their lethal pro­jec­tiles. Remi’s death is also anoth­er proof that police riot weapon­ry cause death, but it seems that since they are called non-“lethal” by the apol­o­gists of state bar­barism, cops who use them are absolved of any respon­si­bil­i­ty. Death is what awaits any­one who stands in the way of prof­its which in Europe are placed above all, life, human needs and envi­ron­ment.

Footage from protest in the evening of Octo­ber 26th in the town of Gail­lac in the Tarn depart­ment:

http://youtu.be/jUQjY1tRVAw

http://youtu.be/rbeBMBHxixM