On February, 2nd 2018, some people took the streets in Munich-Glockenbachviertel. They wanted to respond to the repressive mood in the fancy-schmancy-city of the rich, Munich. They especially wanted to express their solidarity with the imprisoned person, beeing accused for many different graffity against Yuppies, Cops, Nazis and Rich, who is arrested in Stadelheim since four months.
Round about 30 persons chanted parols like “prison by prison, stone by stone, we will break down the walls!” or “Against Law and Borders, Freedom is only achievable without prisons!”. They also distributed flyers and posters.
The german text on the flyers was:
With courage and in solidarity
against the city of the rich and those, who defend it
On October 10th, and October 12th 2017 two persons have been arrested. They were blamed for hundreds of graffity in many different areas of Munich, which appeared on cars, garage doors, walls, etc.
It did not happen for the first time and it wont be the last time, that the state tries to get rid of persons, who expressed their anger on the order, which is protected by the state, with one of the simplest tools: the aerosol can.
The older one of the two imprisoned, who doesn’t give testimony, is still arrested. After a real chivy by the media and the police, the accused, who doesn’t cooperate with cops and justice, should serve as a scaring example for all those, who are itching to reach for the aerosol can by their own. Also they try to demoralize and isolate him by the bad detention conditions.
It is not our question, if the imprisoned are actually responsible for the graffity they are blamed for or not. It’s the disgusting task of police and justice to judge that.
Some Individuals were out during the night to stain the far to clean facade of this city, which gets more and more unlivable for persons with a small wallet or some kind of nonconformist behaviour. What Cops want to prevent now at all costs is the spreading of such direct actions, which could be an inspiration for all those discriminated by gentrification.
The repression by the state and the demonstration of power by the cops, which one could experience again and again in Munich, does not only condemn those, who are affected by it/them in the individual case, but also against all those who are not willing to subject themselves to the rules they haven’t made.
But repression can only work, if we let it happen.
The more often we overcome our passivity, the more difficult is it for the cops to find the ones being responsible.
Don’t let us be intimidated, but let’s express our anger in that way, we want to express it.
Freedom for all!
In the evening one could also hear chants like “Freedom for all prisoners!” and firework against the walls near the prison in Munich-Stadelheim.
Source: Indymedia, translated from German