On the 17th of May 2015 , the headquarters of the luxury housing company “ von Poll ” in Frankfurt is being devastated and made unusable for quite some time , while crow ’ s-feet in the surrounding streets keep cops from intervening . Some nights later , three offices of the same company in Hamburg are being attacked with stones , paintbombs and butyric acid . The company sets a rewards of 50000 Euro on the attackers . At the end of March , some angry inhabitants in the “ Schanzenviertel ” -neighborhood build a barricade , using its cover , wealthy stores are being attacked with bricks and painted with slogans like “ against the city of the rich ” and “ fight gentrification ”. The barricade was built in protest against the selling of a collectively owned house to an investor , who is now renovating and then expensively renting the place to whomever can pay . The public outrage of the attacked store owners , who stage themselves as victims of gentrification on their own and as “ alternative ” actors in the neighborhood showed clearly that from time to time it is valuable , to overcome the respect for the profiteers of gentrification , no matter how admirable they act . Again and again there are wild demonstrations taking place , vandalizing stores and companies , leaving signs of rage . None is ever caught , because the crowd always disperses in the night before the cops even show up .
On the 23rd of April 2016 , cars of the luxury catering company “ Frischeparadies ” in Hamburg are being torched – ten years after the wealthy supermarket of the company got looted in the context of struggles against social repression .
On the 30th of April 2016 , some hooded individuals use the opportunities of an early morning and the fixation of the cops onto the spectacle of the 1st of May for looting a bio supermarket . Leaflets are being left behind , saying : “ The Denn ’ s Market in Altona got looted and numerous bags of food have been taken . We are against a world , in which people are being divided into winners and losers . Against a world , in which very few are very rich , while others can ’ t afford to eat . (…) Expropriation – looting and stealing of the goods or the money , who serve as sanctuaries in this societies order – is a way of attacking these circumstances . It ’ s not about enrichment or a more just system . It ’ s about the social revolution . Fuck the city of the rich . Take what you want and steal back your life !”
At the evening of Saturday , the 21st of May , 20-30 hooded persons approach the freshly built luxury complex “ Glockenbachsuiten ” in Munich and throw a high number of paint bombs to the facade .
At the 29th of May 2016 , an angry mob gathers in a wellgentrified street in the Kreuzberg neighborhood , Berlin . Two barricades are being set alight , crow ’ s-feet put to the side streets and with this as protection , a new built luxury house , an electrical substation , wealthy cars , a hotel and a supermarket are being attacked with fire , paint and stones . An anonymous communique is talking about “ paint , bricks and fire against the city of the rich ” in solidarity with the ongoing clashes in France .
At the 7th of July 2016 , large parts of the Zurich train system is breaking down – cable funnels have been set ablaze on two different spots , causing the railways security systems to collapse , which causes an immediate stop of all traffic on the lines . Numerous hours , the buzzing rumble of the metropolis is forced to rest for a moment . None avows for the attack – every individual longing for a break in the totality of the other-directed daily routine could have done it .
In Basel , a wild demonstration is taking a street full of flashy , anonymous office complexes in the night of the 24th of June , causing damage to the branches of insurances , security companies and political parties . Unfortunately some persons got arrested after this intervention , four of them are still in custody , awaiting trial . In the Switzerland cities Basel and Zurich , again and again forms of wild , destructive demonstrations and public gatherings are being tried out . A “ Reclaim the Streets ” -Party in Zurich in December 2014 ended in a large riot , causing major damage in the inner city . Two weeks later , 10000 issues of a pamphlet are being distributed in the city , talking “ against the city of the rich ”, proposing a struggle against capitalist dominion in the city of Zurich . The publication provokes wide echoes , both of favor and discontent .
At the 12th of August 2016 , the company headquarter of the Hamburg based shipowner Folkard Edler is being attacked in one of the most wealthy streets of the city , a Porsche parked in front of the house is being torched . Edler is not only the ugly , rich owner of a shipping company and therefore a responsible protagonist in the global circulation of commodities , he also donated a million euro to the racist , nationalist party “ AFD ” for its electoral campaign .
The acts described are examples of intervention , independent from each other , but what unites them is the fact , that they happened on terrain , that is in all its facets contrary towards our ideas of freedom and self-determination . Our complicated endeavor is to not let these attacks become isolated , spectacular stagings but to embed them into the social conflictuality , towards a social revolt , that brings us closer to the unknown , but passionately desired freedom .
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