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15th December, Germany.
According to a german hunting newspaper, since May 2021 multiple hunting hides, seats and towers have been set alight in North Rhine Wesphalia, Germany. The perpetrators have not been identified, even after a heavy police investigation.
On the 15th of December 2021, a wildlife camera captured a photo of someone setting alight another hunting seat and walking away as the flames started to grow. Police is still clueless as to who the perpetrator is.
Over the past three years, Alicante Spain.
According to a hunting newspaper, a relentless campaign in Jávea (Alicante) is making a hunter’s life “unbearable”. He has had continuous action against him, with the fences in his house either pulled down or cut from side to side as well as huge graffiti reading “HUNTERS ARE PSYCHOPATHS”, “MURDERER” and “ABUSER” painted on his property.
Over the past three years, he has lost seven dogs to the action of anonymous liberators, that have left notes saying they’ve “taken the dogs to give them a better life”.
He has even been left without any hounds during the main hunting season, making it impossible for him to kill any rabbits.
Since his first statement to the authorities, there have been no advancements in the police investigation, and the liberators remain free to take action.
16th January, Xertigny France.
via: ATTAQUE (translation)
According to media reports, a building belonging to Vallée de l’Aître Hunting Society that had served as a meeting point for hunters in the area for 32 years was burnt to the ground on the night of the 16th of January.
The 40sqm chalet and all the furniture and belongings were completely destroyed by flames, and Stéphane Claudel, the president of the hunting society, estimates a damage of at least 30,000 €.
As the building is not connected to electricity and it is very remote, investigators believe is was caused by intentional arson.
30th January, Hambacher Forst.
via: ATTAQUE
received anonymously:
ENGLISH (loosely translated):
“On two nights in January, several hunting towers around the Hambach Forest were sawed and knocked down.
A small wooden one was first taken down by pulling and pushing it until it fell. A larger one, also made of wood, was damaged by sawing two of its legs in half and then knocking it over. The third one, a large metal one, was cut with an angle grinder. If you wish to repeat these actions, the towers are easy to break and you do not need to start a fire, which risks burning the woods.
Hunting is a part of the speciesist domination system. In the modern context, it is practised for profit and or amusement by killing and selling the killed people and their body parts. This domination is directly encouraged and rewarded by capitalist commodification.
Even though hunting is brutal, it is commonly accepted, and often romanticized. By directly sabotaging the practice of hunting, we refuse to accept their excuses. We accept no justification for hunting in any form, and actively fight it.
Hunters are either paid, or they pay themselves to kill, depending on the country. Their excuse of conservation only serves to uphold the oppression of the wild. They ensure that exploitation can do its thing while so-called “nature” is mapped, managed and controlled.
Speciesism and the domestication of non-human life not only comes from the roots of civilization, but it has also served again and again as a model by the establishment for the authority over classes. The fight against human supremacy is a part of the fight against oppression and towards total liberation.
TOTAL LIBERATION, BURN CIVILIZATION”
FRENCH:
“Lors de deux nuits en janvier, plusieurs tours de chasse autour de la forêt d’Hambach ont été sciées et renversées.
Une petite en bois a d’abord été renversée en la tirant et poussant jusqu’à ce qu’elle tombe. Une plus grande aussi en bois a été endommagée en sciant deux de ses pieds à la moitié et a été renversée. La troisième, une grosse en metal, a été sciée à la disqueuse. Faire attention si ces actions sont reproduites, à l’endroit probable de la chute de la tour et de ne pas déclencher de feu dans la forêt avec le risque de propagation.
La chasse est une partie de l’ordre speciste dominant. Dans le contexte moderne , elle est pratiquée pour le profit et ou l’amusement en tuant et vendant les personnes tuées et les parties de leurs corps. Cette domination est directement encouragée et récompensée par la marchandisation capitaliste. Même si pratiquée de manière aussi directe et brutale, cette expression de la domination est communément acceptée, et souvent romantisée. En sabotant directement la pratique de la chasse, on ne fait pas attention à son acceptation et laissons libre cours à nos critiques et attaques. On accepte aucune justification de la chasse dans quelque forme que ce soit, et la nions activement.
Les chasseurs sont payées ou pas selon les pays et « préserver » l’écosystème en tuant certaines personnes et en en gardant un certain nombre travaille à préserver la domination. Ielles assurent que l’exploitation puisse faire son truc pendant que la soi disant « nature » est cartographiée, gérée et controllée.
Le specisme et la domestication de la vie non humaine ne vient pas seulement des racines de la civilisation, ça a aussi encore et encore servi de modèle pour la mise en place de l’autorité sur des catégories de personnes. Le combat contre la suprématie humaine est une partie de la lutte contre la domination et vers une libération totale.
LIBÉRATION TOTALE, BRÛLE LA CIVILISATION”
IMAGE: Old stock image of the fight against hunting in Hambacher Forst, (2017).
Translated by Act for freedom now!
received anonymously:
“Next to the Hambach forest and the gigantic coal mine that almost completely destroyed it, 4 tyres were punctured of an engie vehicle, a French multinational in charge of nuclear, gas and oil energy. All these fossil resources are used in parallel with “renewable” energy (wind, solar) which are not because they use fossil resources to be created and destroy the areas and populations from which they are drawn. They only add to the growing energy demand of this sick and self-destructive world.
It is possible to see this absurdity here, this coal pit of several kilometres, next to windmills, nuclear power stations, solar farms…
It is more than urgent to put a stop to it. To do nothing knowingly is to collaborate.
Without any illusion that this small sabotage won’t be quickly absorbed by the company, the objective is rather to multiply the sabotage, to make the enemies visible and to spread the practice of attack and information, without which nothing will move.
Solidarity is necessary to face repression, let’s build networks of trust, let’s attack to up the pressure.
Support for the occupiers of the Osterholz forest and the anarchists in Hamburg who are under state attack.
DEATH TO CIVILISATION, RWE, ENGIE, CIGEO (nuclear waste disposal project in Bure) AND THEIR EQUIVALENTS”
23rd February, South Wales UK.
Received anonymously:
“Mole decapitation traps removed from st marys church, marshfield, Newport.”
10th February, Spain
According to a hunting newspaper, ten thousand partridges have mysteriously disappeared from a farm that was raided by the ALF eight years ago. They say that some hundreds of birds have appeared dead alongside graffitti reading “animal liberation”, and that the police is still unsure if the attack had anything to do with the ALF or if it could’ve been a robbery.
January, France.
via: Attaque
According to mainstream media, in the space of four months, in Villeneuve, France, the premises of the Gergy Hunting Society, chaired by Jérôme Sarre, have been damaged three times.
13th February, Belgium
via Animal Liberation Press Office:
“Belgium 13.02.2022 The A.L.F. Save Wild Lives and sabot 12 hunting stand”
9th February, Germany.
via Animal Liberation Press Office.
“09.02.2022. The A.L.F. save wild life in germany in memory of Mike Hill.and sabot 5 hunting stand”