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Quebec Cops Raid Anarchist Milieu
Quebec Cops Raid Anarchist Milieu
[Date: 27 Jun 1996 16:36:34 GMT]
[Editor's Note: The post below was received from a Montreal-based
activist.]
The past few days have witnessed dramatic repression of Quebec
anarchists, following a mass riot in Quebec City on June 24th, St-
Jean Baptiste Day (this is a very popular Quebec holiday, and has
often been a good excuse to riot in the past). Thousands of people
smashed windows and expropriated goods during the riot, as well as
trashing the National Assembly (the place where the government
meets), breaking its windows and trying to set it afire.
Initially the Quebec police chief claimed that the riot had been
instigated by an unnamed "extreme right wing" group. However, a
State-controlled "anti-fascist" watchdog group, the "World Anti-
Fascist League" was quick to set them right. WAL leader Alain
Dufour, publicly fingered anarchists in general, and the newspaper
Demanarchie in particular, as having instigated the riot.
Following Dufour's "revelations" a comrade was arrested for selling
Demanarchie at Place Youville, the popular youth hangout where the
riot had started. The comrade's house was subsequently raided and
his computer seized, and then twenty police raided the Food Not
Bombs in Quebec city (FNB is an anti-authoritarian anti-poverty
group). A total of four people were arrested, three of whom were
charged with growing pot. The comrade who had been arrested for
selling the paper has been released but is under surveillance, and the
FNB comrades will be appearing in court tomorrow. That evening
the chief investigator for the Quebec police revealed that several
dozen copies of Demanarchie had been found at one of the raided
houses, and held up a copy for reporters to oogle, as if this was
proof of anything.
The situation has not stabilized yet, and the government is promising
a through investigation, which means added heat and surveillance on
the radical left in Quebec. It is important that comrades across
Canada and the United States, and indeed around the world, pay
attention to what is happening to us. We'll try and keep you posted
as things progress. In the meantime, it should be taken for granted
that money will be needed to defend our comrades, but as of yet I
can't give any address for it to be sent. What people can do is
telephone the Victoriaville Police Department and demand that the
Quebec City police lay off of the radical Left and cease engaging in
all of this post-riot repression. The phone number is: 819-752-4545.
In closing, today the Montreal Section of Demanarchie released the
following statement to the bourgeois media:
Why You Have Understood Nothing of the St-Jean Riot
The Demanarchie collective rejects all claims of authorship and
ownership of the St-Jean riot at Quebec City. Bear unto Caesar that
which is Caesar's: the riot belongs only to those who participated in
it.
As we explained quite clearly in our editorial, the one that you find
so controversial: "The Riot is a spontaneous phenomenon." This is
to say that the accusations of a conspiracy and premeditation are
nothing but lies meant to criminalize us on the basis of our political
beliefs.
The hunt for scapegoats is an attempt to disguise the authorities'
responsibility for the ever-worstening social climate which is making
more and more young people feel like they have less and less to lose.
If you really want to find those responsible for the damage done on
the St-Jean, go check out the cops and the mass media. Policies of
zero tolerance and sensationalistic blather provoke the excitement
and the violence of crowds.
You can gag the anarchists, but you won't be able to silence the cries
of the excluded.
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