#Anarchism
#French
#Sabotage
#Cannes
During the night of May 23-24, 2025, the hydroelectric power plant and a high-voltage pylon in Tanneron (Var) and Villeneuve-Loubet (Alpes-Maritimes) were attacked, cutting off electricity to Cannes and the surrounding area. Here is the press release from "two anarchist bands":
AND… CUT!
Here are two gangs of anarchists. We claim responsibility for the attack on electrical installations on the French Riviera. On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival's awards ceremony and gala evening, we sabotaged the main substation supplying the greater Cannes area and cut the 225 kV line from Nice.
The aim of this action was not only to disrupt the festival, but also to cut off the power supply to the research centers and factories of Thales Alenia Space, its dozens of subcontractors, the French tech start-ups that believed they were safe, the airport, and all other industrial, military, and technological facilities in the region.
An unexpected cut in a bad horror movie that drags on and on. The same scenario is played out ad nauseam. The scenes change, the special effects change, but the backdrop remains the same: a world that will not stop bombing, exploiting, exploiting, hoarding, raping, ravaging, starving, machine-gunning, polluting, and exterminating until everything is under its control.
We know we're not on a film set, but the phrase "CUT!" seemed to sum up our desire: to shut down this deadly system.
AND... CUT! Their show serves as a showcase for a boastful French Republic, which defends the values of progress on the international stage, but above all is the world's second-largest arms exporter. French excellence in this field arms NATO and sows death, from Yemen to the Gaza Strip, from Ukraine to the Sahel.
AND... CUT! Their obscene ceremony, at the edge of a sea that has become a refugee cemetery, is the industrial garbage dump of a society that loves to portray revolts on screen, but represses and imprisons anyone who rebels against its world domination.
AND... CUT! The promotion of the ersatz world you create with your series and films, which seeks to make us forget the real planet, rotted by factories, highways, concrete, and mines.
AND... CUT! The statement... No? (Tempting!) Okay, hands! ... Neither?! So, the language!
So, in short: silence all those who say: "This hysteria is exaggerated!" "To incapacitate these oppressors with a thousand masks who turn bodies into objects and defend the rape culture that is popular in the film industry, from the screen to the sets, but is just as widespread elsewhere...
AND... CUT! The flow of your military-technological industries. Thales-Alenia Aerospace, a leader in the defense sector, manufactures targeting and missile guidance systems, as well as space telecommunications. The company is by far the largest manufacturer of satellites in Europe, particularly for military use. The laboratories and workshops at the Cannes site operate 24/7. Several thousand engineers and technicians work there every day on the development of these military satellites (observation, communications, missile and drone guidance) and civilian satellites (telecommunications, surveillance).
AND... CUT! Your disgusting speeches, which seek to draw us into your war preparations. Your announcements of reindustrialization and the revival of nuclear power. Your lectures on ecological transition and the survival of industrial society. Your speeches against those who oppose your cement factories, your motorways, your nuclear power plants, your chemical factories, your high-speed trains, and your relay antennas. Your calls for national unity, for the "rearmament" of the nation-state, for the defense of your values and your vision of the world.
So yes… take away the power of what is destroying us!
Sabotage is possible!
Turn off the screens
Cut off the highways
Cut the pylons
Turn off artificial light
Cut the TGV lines
Switch off telecommunications
Cut the bulldozer pipes
Power outage for the defense industry
Disconnect the factories from the power grid
Cut off oil and gas pipelines
Felling the wind turbines’ measuring masts
Cut off the armies' supply lines
Shut off water supply for industrial agriculture and electronics factories
Cut the cables of the photovoltaic power plants
Cut the antennas
Cut the bars of the prison cells (and long live the attacks on the prison!)
Shorter reformist and authoritarian speeches
Stop the silence and trivialization of patriarchal violence
Remove the pedestal from celebrities and other powerful men who commit assaults and rapes behind the scenes and on the battlefield.
Put an end to those who say you should wait
And... wait. Courage.
And since you love bringing revolts to the screen…
And we must keep our sense of humor!
Here, inspired by the latest successes of international cinema,
an in-house production released specifically for the 2025 edition
the Cannes Film Festival!
Sabotage 2: Night in Cannes
An anonymous in-house production
Summary
Set in a world on the brink of the apocalypse, the film depicts the adventures of a libertarian commando unit tasked with sabotaging militarily important technology factories.
When they decide to strike at the time of a prestigious cultural event, a race against time begins...
"If you love women short-circuiting aluminum production, schoolchildren burning down factories, Fremen rebelling against the intergalactic empire, or commandos attacking the oil industry, you won't want more from this latest production."
The Untouchables
“The special effects sometimes leave something to be desired, which is not surprising given the limited resources available to this production, but the script and strategic ingenuity more than make up for this shortcoming.”
Cannes Morning
"A gripping tale of good versus evil. A favorite in this time of confusion and disorder."
Allocinéma
“It is difficult to excuse the lack of nuance, the absence of constructive dialogue, and the clear democratic deficit of the protagonists' radical message, but it is in the air.”
The Phigareau
“An idealistic thriller with more real consequences than ever before.”
Hypercritical sense
“A powerful call to rearmament…of radical protest.”
The diplomatic universe
Be sure to put it into practice.
a translate from french
https://lagrappe.info/?Communique-sur-les-sabotages-de-la-Cote-d-Azur-1414
