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The current interim state of the construction site, briefly before the in the newspaper announced start of the
construction works at the end of November, was taken
advantage to cause a bit furore and trouble in the quarter of Neuhausen and to disrupt the image of general
silence and resignation.
Meanwhile the architects of the Centre of Justice and
Penalty are crying in the newspapers about not feeling
secure anymore and that furthermore their faces and
names as well as their disgusting profession as prisonand court-architects can be seen on thousands of stickers and posters in the whole city. The pitiful pigs now
have to hide behind even more personal security. Other
newspapers even stated that sprayed slogans around the
centre of Justice would be “terror” and once again drew
a connection between these and not clearly defined destructive attacks.
It´s the media’s´ interest not to explain further who or
what, how and where is getting attacked, since like this,
attacks could stand in a context and the reasons and motivations could maybe be understandable for everybody.
Although the Office for the Protection of the Constitution could not withhold anymore in its report about last
year that an electricity power line of the new maximum
security courtroom´s construction site has been burned.
But back to the incidents of the last weeks:
Apparently in some houses appeared fake letters of the
Munich Waste Collection Service that called for putting
not anymore needed skip refuse on the area where the
Centre of Justice is going to be built, or just to place it
in front of one’s own doors. This offer was answered by
great demand and in the evening skip refuse could be
found everywhere. Some also used this as an opportunity to erect a barricade with those things in front of the
entrance of the area of the Centre of Justice as to make
it impassable for future building works. A slogan which
was left on the load of skip refuse was joking: “Centre of
Justice???- What a rubbish.”
Some days later in the afternoon a scattered group of
people dared to walk through the streets of the quarter to pay a visit to some self chosen “stops” like the
“GBW-Office” (*1), the bavarian chamber of architects
(*2) and the prisoners-on-day-release-jail (*3) to
draw the attention with thrown leaflets, flyers, stickers,
pasted posters, a banner and a sprayed slogan on the
prevailing responsibility concerning the city-restructuring and quarter-gentrification and the link between
Justice, Penalty, social control and the edification of
the new Justice-Centre.
On the there distributed leaflet was written: “Someone,
who is walking through the streets with open eyes and
who is not throwing his memories overboard can not
overlook the fiasco: To do justice to the requests of an
attractive location for investors, profit-vultures, tourists and moving in Yuppies the whole city is submitted

to a massive process of restructuring. Countless gentrification- and new building- projects and rents that rise
without measure are causing the displacement of whole
neighbourhoods and so the suppression of an alive and
critical memory for the changes taking place. We shall
(…) not recognize how the rising rents are going hand
in hand with more and more cameras and police patrols,
controls in buses and trains, the disappearance of social life on the streets and squares and the extension of
the state´s colossal prison- and justice-apparatus. The
building of the Centre of Justice in Neuhausen is the
spearhead of this repressive restructuring.”
“It’s clear against whom this measure is aiming: Against
the oppressed and poor, against people without papers
and against people without money, against people without a home or job and especially against all potential rebellious and unruly minds. We are told that we anyway
wouldn´t have influence on the question if this building
is going to be constructed or not, that we anyhow couldn´t doubt it. It is drummed into our heads that we couldn´t achieve anything against being demeaned and beaten up, being monitored and locked up by those who have
more power than us.” (–Out of the short speech which
was made on an intermediate stop on a central square
through a megaphone)
“It would be fatal to accept this impudence with the habitual calmness and powerlessness without even moving
one finger. It is about us to put the foot in front of the
door, to show, that we are for sure perceiving the ongoing changes attentively and to take care that those
who transform the city into an open-air prison don´t get
away undamaged...”
On the leaflets and posters it was made clear to not just
passively-powerlessly observe the restructuring as well
as concerning the extension of statist-judicial and police- control-measurements through the glasses of the
silent spectator, but instead to recognize the own possibilities, to intervene and to mess up the plans of the
profiteers and the ones responsible.
The reactions on all that were – owed to the in many
parts of the city distributed culture of snitching and telling on – partly mistrustful, partly marked by sympathy
and euphoria, but always interested.
In the end it showed that uncontrolled agitation and
movement is always and everywhere possible, if one
is preparing together with others and just taking the
streets without asking for permission.
Above this it becomes clear that the continuously bringing up of the topic of this construction project leads to
discussions and polemics, to polarising opinions and reactions to the plans of the state in the neighbourhoods.
In the moment when people are deciding for disobedience and resistance instead of apathy and fatalism we,
as anarchists, must be present with concrete proposals,
precise information and clear ideas.

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