The Spanish government has insited in changing the European Human
Rights code so the prosecution in the Basque Country can be adopted
against social and political groups and movements (in an official
way because that has been happening in a systematic way for years).
In this way anyone without belonging to ETA or other group is
accused of being a member. Just for sympathize with the Basque
cause. Just for being Basque.
Just for being a squatter. In this way magazines had been closed
- they were according the authorities and though it was proved
to be false ETA too. Political groups are ETA. Environmentalist
groups are ETA. We‚re not exaggerating - this is the extend
of the situation. So Juan Ramón Rodríguez, on holidays
in Amsterdam, is required by the Spanish police who claims his
extradition. The Ductch police launches an operation to arrest
him and at the same time harass the squatters where he’sstaying,
scare them and trash their place.
A message goes with this: your activities are very close the
illegality, we‚re going to give you loads of shit in the
papers, so you do better changing your life style and ideology.
Juan Ramón Rodríguez is wanted for passing info
on the CEDADE, one of the remaining stinky fascist groups in Spain,
to ETA. Now: what is ETA, if it’s the magazine associated
with it or if it’s myself, or what has ETA done with that
information (nothing so far) doesn’t mater, because in these
new era the repression is taking another dimension. We have to
act NOW to stop this monster before it swallows us.
Raid in Amsterdam legalized squat linked to ETA
From Indymedia
At 3.30 hours in the morning of Thursday the 17th of January,
the police of Amsterdam raided the residential part off the legalized
squat Vrankrijk, (Spuistraat 216/218). With use of apprehension
units, Special Criminal investigators and riot police (about 200
in total), the police searched all 14 apartments.
They did not find anything they were looking for, but confiscated
a couple of Spanish books, 2 mobile phones and a toy gun collection.
The reason for the raid had to do with the arrest off the Spanish
activist from Barcelona, Juan Ramón Rodríguez Fernández,
who was on holyday in Amsterdam.
On request by the Spanish state, the arrest was made, because
Juan allegedly had connections with the ETA. He is now held in
a Dutch prison, awaiting his extradition to Spain.
Lawyers are already working on the case. For weeks, the Spanish
Guardia Civil and the Dutch police have been working together
on this case. Juan is the lead vocalist of the band KOP, a political
orientated band from Catalonia.
Juan is suspected to have ties with the last year rounded up ETA-cell
from Barcelona and being an active member of the cities squat
movement Okupación.
Juan supposedly gave the ETA information about extreme-rightwing
organisations such as Cedade (Neo- Nazi‚s). During the raid,
more and more sympathizers came to the place, but could not do
much. One girl was injured through a hit on her head by a police
baton. She was beaten when she walked out of the door from the
squat across the street from the Vrankrijk, without doing anything
towards the police. She had to go to the hospital to get some
stitches.
From within the bar (separated from the house at the ground floor
of the building) bottles were thrown at the police. The police
did not do anything about that and left them alone. At the end,
the Riot police left, while the criminal investigators left at
the backside of the building because they were afraid of being
hurt by the flying bottles. They did not have a warrant to pass
through the backside of the house, which has a different address.
There are video-images from the raid, a bit unclear but you will
get the idea:
Noise
, Riot
police being bombarded , Street
blocked by the police , Riot
police and noise , Riot
police
