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 | Subject: [Doc] Ni vieux ni traîtres - Pierre Carles (2005)  Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:28 am | |
| Ni vieux ni traîtres (aka Neither old nor traitors) From Pierre Carles   Another great documentary from Pierre Carles ( Attention Danger Travail) Very engaged as well  The story of members of the famous French revolutionary extreme left group Action directe which committed a series of assassinations and violent attacks in France between 1979 and 1987. A interesting view on revolution and the meaning of violence and resistance. Very interesting to hear these members talking freely after all this time about a period of France still taboo today ''If you fight you might lose, but if you don't you've already lost''  A bit of history to understand who they are - Quote :
- Founding
Action directe was set up in 1977 by two other groups, GARI (Groupes d'Action Révolutionnaire Internationalistes, revolutionary internationalist action groups) and NAPAP (Noyaux Armés pour l'Autonomie Populaire, armed core groups for popular autonomy), as the "military-political co-ordination of the autonomous movement". In 1979 it was transformed into an "urban guerrilla organisation" and carried out violent attacks under the banner of "anti-imperialism" and "proletarian defence." The group was banned by the French government in August 1982. In 1984 Action directe allied itself with the German Red Army Faction.
Attacks
Action directe carried out some fifty attacks, including a machine gun assault on the employers' federation headquarters on May 1, 1979 as well as attacks on French government buildings, property management agencies, French army buildings, companies in the military-industrial complex, and the state of Israel. They carried out robberies or "proletarian expropriation" actions, and assassinations, killing Engineer General René Audran, the manager of French arms sales, in 1985. They were also accused of Georges Besse's 1986 killing, a murder allegedly justified because he was the then head of the French automaker Renault. However, they denied it during their trial. Besse was also former president of Eurodif nuclear company, in which Iran had a 10% share.
Arrests
On 21 February 1987, the main Action directe members, Jean-Marc Rouillan, Nathalie Ménigon, Joëlle Aubron, and Georges Cipriani, were arrested. They were later sentenced to life imprisonment. Régis Schleicher had already been arrested in 1984. Joëlle Aubron was released in June 2004 for health reasons and died of lung cancer on 1 March 2006. There is an ongoing campaign by some sections of the French far-left that the Action directe members still imprisoned, who consider themselves political prisoners, should be paroled. In December 2007, Rouillan was allowed a state of "semi-liberty", able to leave prison for extended periods. In September 2008, a Parisian court called for the revoking of this status after he declared in an interview with l’Express that "I remain convinced that armed struggle is necessary at certain moments of the revolutionary process. | |
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