Double attack on Aubert et Duval steelworks, supplier to war industries.
During the night of November 19th to 20th, we attacked the power supply to two production sites of the Aubert et Duval group:
At Firminy, we sawed through a pylon on the 220kV line supplying the site. It only partially fell.
In Ancizes-Comps, we also set fire to a 220kV line, at the point where the high-voltage cables went underground. We were able to get close and place our devices at the foot of the ducts, without danger.
Aubert et Duval is a key player in the French military industry. It supplies parts for Naval Group submarines, Dassault Rafales and Framatom nuclear power plants.
Our action resonates with the international call for a week of action against all wars, from November 17 to 25, 2023, published in early November (careful, it's a bit late...) on Iaata.info. We welcome this kind of initiative, and in turn call for an attack on the military industry everywhere and at all times.
What's certain is that we've achieved our goal of hitting the military industry. While we don't have the means to know exactly how much damage we've caused, we do know that these industries know they're being targeted, and that their weak points are highlighted by our actions.
“[On the home front], ordinary factories”
As the tag left on the site of an aeronautics factory burnt down in March 2023 in Beauchastel so aptly put it, that the war which we're told about all day long must end and which is unjust, starts here – and is made possible by seemingly innocuous enterprises.
It's no secret that global conflicts are escalating in intensity. For almost two months, bombs have been falling on the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, at an unprecedented rate, and with widespread political, military and financial support from the United States and most Western countries. The same people who are calling for a truce, respect for civilians and International Law, are producing the bombs that are massacring people in a way they claim to condemn, there or elsewhere, since several billion people live in war zones, with all the horrors that this engenders and that we know about: rape, torture, forced displacement, etc. This hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren't so macabre.
In concrete terms, these wars are the result of a military-industrial complex, with its factories, laboratories and technicians. In France, the eight major military industrial groups – Airbus, Arquus, Dassault, MBDA, Naval group, Nextor, Safran and Thales – are celebrating record sales. Some 4,000 companies work for the defense industry, with the active, ongoing support of the state, which has earmarked a budget of 417 billion euros to increase its killing power and export its arsenal worldwide. Machines of death that are used directly for massacres, such as the Dassault fighter jets or the Nexter tanks and guns used by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen.
We don't want to remain indifferent to this. We also want to send a message to the workers in these industries. Let our actions deprive them of their work for a while, and make them face up to their responsibilities. We also hope that these acts, and the words we put on them, will help to raise the profile of these most discreet factories of death.
Our thoughts go to those who fight for their freedom, to those who face repression.
Let's attack everywhere!