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police attack on autonomist scene
Main Thing: Big Raid
On Tuesday, 13.6.95, 50 left wing house collectives, private flats and
infoshops all over the FRG were the aim of a large-scale raid of the
police. In eight states special units and officers of the State Offices
of Criminal Investigation (LKA) and of the Federal Office (BKA) stormed
the houses and political centers early in the morning. The operation
order was given by the Office of the Federal Attorney (BAW) in
Karlsruhe, which, as its speaker Rolf Hannich said, ordered the raid in
connection with present preliminary proceedings against "left extremist
and left terrorist groupings". During the whole day the BAW held imposed
a news ban on the details and the background of the big raid. Also the
BAW didn't want toconfirm the report that the police operation was aimed
at the Antiimperialist Cell (aiz). Concrete proceedings were only named
rarely in the search warrants. Main excuse: Support of a terrorist
organisation and distribution of the autonomist underground magazine
Radikal.
In Berlin, three house collectives and one private flat were raided. The
operation was legitimated with the suspicion of distribution of Radikal.
In two houses the police also searched for two men, which are wanted in
connection with the failed car bomb attack on the extradition prison
under construction in Berlin-Gruenau. For that reason they broke open the
flats at six in the morning, with tracker dogs, and detained the
inhabitants until midday. Also to the question, whether the proceedings in
the context with Gruenau also were making up the background of the
searchings in the other towns, the speaker of the BAW, Hannich, didn't
want to say anything.
In Hamburg, besides several private flats, a printshop was raided.
Police seized flyers and a stereotype of a flyer of the "Anti-racist
Telephone". The flyer contained a call for reminder vigils because of
racist attacks by police officers in police station in Hamburg (which
happened - became public! - also in several other towns). Also the
inhabitants of four flats in the Schanzenviertel in Hamburg were waked
by the SEK. The excuse: Again production and distribution of Radikal.
Probably nine people were arrested, but released shortly afterwards.
That may mean, that also their arrest was also an excuse and not the aim
of the raids.
Otherwise in Schleswig-Holstein (northern state of the FRG): In
Rendsburg and Luebeck the police arrested two men, and the warrant
against them, because of "suspicion of membership in a terrorist
organisation", gave the excuse for the searching of several flats and two
political centers (in Luebeck). A member of the "Project
Informationservice Schleswig Holstein" reported to the Junge Welt, (at
least) one of two now arrested men has already been transported to
Karlsruhe for interrogation. The search for one of them also was the
xcuse for the searching of the infoshop in Neumuenster. According to the
BAW he alledgedly has been a regular visitor. On the occasion the police
seized the whole material in the bureau of the Informationservice - from
the archive to the computer.
By order of the BAW eleven searchings were conducted in
Nordrhein-Westfalen - in Duisburg, Muenster and Cologne. In these cases
the operations were not aimed at specified persons, arrests only
happened because of "resistance against the police". In Cologne the
police raided two former squats, one flat and the infoshop. Also here
the officers excused their entrance with the search for proof for the
production of Radikal.
Altogether the reasons for the raid seem to be constructed. The house in
Berlin-Kreuzberg was already turned upside down in May, in connection
with the search for the suspects from Gruenau. The magazine Radikal,
which is less and less important in the autonomist scene, does exist
since 20 years and has already been used often as an excuse for
repressive operations by the state security agencies. Obviously the aim
of the BAW is a different one. After the police appeared several times before
the
public with proceedings against right wing extremists, now proof for the
efficiency also against the radical left was overdue. The last "success"
in this direction, the arrest of one alledged RAF-Member, Birgit
Hogefeld, and the shooting of another, Wolfgang Grams, is two years old,
and actually did backfire for the BAW. What probably is going to be sold
as "an effective strike against left wing terrorism" is no more than an
hyped try to intimidate, made up for the media.
(mainly based on an article in Junge Welt, 14.6.95, by Elke Spanner and
Ivo Bozic)
Okay, That was an overview on what happened. Now two other news, that
might illustrate the picture of today's Germany.
Also on Tuesday, 13.6., a letter bomb exploded in the townhall of Luebeck
and wounded a leading member of the SPD (Socialdemocrats). The letter
bomb was send from Austria and addressed to Dieter Szameit, leader of
the SPD parlamentary group and vice-mayor of Luebeck. He had criticized
the sentences against the arson-attackers on the synagogue in Luebeck as
far too low.
On Friday, a letter bomb, also sent from Austria, exploded in Munich. It
was addressed to Arabella Kiesbauer, a moderator of the TV-station
Pro-7. On the same day another letter bomb exploded in Linz/Austria. It
wounded the owner of a marriage brokerage.
Both bombs are ascribed to the same fascist group, which sent several
letter bombs to austrian politicians and anti-racist activists and
murdered four Roma with a bomb.
Also on Tuesday , the news hit the meadia, that there is another
eye-witness of the murder of W.Grams in Bad Kleinen by officers of the
special unit GSG9.
After investigations of the government and the attarney of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (northern state of ex-GDR) "proofed" the suicide
of Grams, the proceedings against two (alledgedly) unknown officers of
the GSG9 were stopped.
The lawyers of the parents of Grams are trying to force the attorney to
re-open the proceedings. They also had presented an alternative expert
opinion, which - despite the destruction of evidence and traces by the
"experts" of the BKA - came to the conclusion, that Grams was shot from
close range in the head. The "new" eye-witness - whose statement is
known to the attorney since several month (!) - said under oath, that he
saw, how two persons stepped to Grams who was lying on the rail tracks
and one held a gun to his head and shot. This corresponds with the
statement of the first eye-witness, who made her statement immediately
after the operation in Bad Kleinen, and was systematicly negated
afterwards.
The background of all of this, is the re-definition and re-instalation
of the FRG as an imperialist power, which - in the face of increasing
contradictions between the three imperialist centers USA, Japan and
Europe and increasing competition for a less and less growing 'cake'
(world market) - is trying to expand from an "only" economic power to an
also military one. The FRG is struggling free from the chains, which
were imposed after the destruction of Fascism 1945. At the same time the
state and its collaborators are re-forming the class-composition and the
social structure within the FRG.
This includes attacks on the living standards of the working class, the
re-formulation of reproductive rights of women, the attack on and
exclusion of migrants (in the context of european politics). This
stategy is backed up by a stategy of limiting civil liberties. The
"lawful" possibilities of the police and the secret services are
extended ("Big wire-tapping" of private flats, cooperation and more and
more merging of police and secret services etc etc.), attacks on
critical media are launched (in connection with drives for privatisation
of the public TV-stations - which means concentration in few private
hands). A proposal for a new police law in Brandenburg (governed by SPD)
includes the allowance of shooting at a gahtering of people (of course
under certain conditions, haha).
The point, which makes it look very irrational sometimes, is that the
state is acting preventive. Until now there is no serious (that means
militant and not-isolated) fight-back or struggle by the working class,
of the left or other people under attack of the state and/or the
capital (besides the struggle of the kurds against the support of the
mass murder in Kurdistan by the FRG and against the ban of the PKK and
several other kurdish organisations in the FRG).
But the contradictions are tightening. So, even as the situation for the
emancipatory forces does look very bleak for the time being, the state
is preparing itself.
One part of this preparation is the constant discourse on how the
"democtratic society" is under constant attack from both right wing and
left wing "extremists and terrorists". Now, that the right wing
terrorists are reality, and are representing an ideological momentum
that does fit in the state's own strategy of exclusion of refugees (and
their controlled exploitation) and the re-definition of the "identity of
the German people" (which always belong together), it is necessary for
the state to build an opposite enemy on the left side.
So the raid on Tuesday had several aims:
- as said above: the ideological construction of a left danger for
democracy (which in Germany is always connected with the existence of
the state);
- gathering of information about the radical left;
- terrorizing of the radical left;
- threatening the rest of society: look what can happen to YOU, if you
step out of line
In this context it is probable that someone has to go to jail - just a
proof, that there is a "danger". The german justice atready has some experience
in the construction of "terrorist organisations" and "support" of them.
In this context - construction of "terrorist organisations" etc:
The charge against the anti-fascist organisation Antifa (m) in
Goettingen, because of forming a "criminal organisation")
seems to have broken down.
One main point of the charge was the accusation of collective disguise
and duress of police on the demonstrations. Now the home office of
Niedersachsen said, that the police wasn't "coerced", but built its
"de-escalation strategy" on the demonstration tactics of the Antifa (M).
Another charge in connection with the main one against Antifa (M), one
against the manager of the bookshop "Rote Strasse", has already been
rejected in may by the Supreme Court of Niedersachsen.
Nevertheless, even if the charge should break down altogether, the work
of the political police wasn't in vain: By all the observations,
telephone-tappings, searchings etc. many pieces of knowledge about the
radical left and anti-fascist scene in Goettingen and beyond were
collected, of which the police will live off for some years.
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