On the 15th of July our comrade was released! This, however, does not mean the legal proceedings against her are dropped, but a judge has decided that she can await her extradition court case outside. She has to comply to some conditions, such as surrendering her passport and signing into the police station once a week.

The court case to decide about her extradition will take place on the 1 st of September, 2016, when it will be decided if the Netherlands will comply with handing her over to the german State, where she faces the accusation of bank expropriation.

We feel strengthened and warmed by all the solidarity and support we have received over the past weeks. However, even with this small pause, the need for discussions, struggle and acts continue to be present. Let’s not let repression dictate our needs and desires against this world based on exploitation and authority.

There are still other accused in this case, who face these charges with dignity and strength. Solidarity to all accused in the cases of expropriation in Aachen!

Yesterday on the 14 of July we went to the PI Utrecht prison at Nieuwersluis where our friend and comrade is being held, to show some solidarity and to give her some strength on the eve of her hearing. At this hearing it will be decided whether or not she can spend the period before her extradition court case in freedom or not.

There were around 60 people showing their support and anger towards her imprisonment, and more generally against the existance of prison, against the logics of imprisonment, the institutions of justice and the laws and people that uphold them.

There were fireworks, speeches, banners, a soundsystem, noise makers and our voices to try to break for some time the isolation and brutalization that any cage produces in the name of the State and its projects of domination.

Our friend and comrade will never feel alone in this moment of repression, we will continue to make clear that solidarity is stronger than their prisons.

We will update about the outcome of the hearing.

Let the struggle against authority and its institutions continue!

On 7.7 an angry and determined demonstration took place from the center of Amsterdam to the police headquarters where our comrade is being held, since her arrest on 6.7.2016. We stayed in front of the cell blocks for 15-20 minutes, making noise, shouting slogans and throwing heavy fireworks. This is just the beginning, our friend will never feel alone. We therefore call on everyone to express solidarity in every possible way with the imprisoned comrade.

She has already spent 5 months in detention, but was released in January 2016, with charges dropped and no conditions to her release. The very disappointed prosecution (from Aachen DE) made recourse to the higher court, which granted a trial (date not yet set) and a new arrest warrant. In April 2016 a comrade was arrested in Barcelona by order of the same prosecution office, with similar charges: an expropriation which took place in 2014. She has since been extradited to Germany.

We are not interested whether or not the comrade is actually responsible for the bank robberies or not. Expropriation is an ethically correct and politically legitimate means, a method of struggle, which is part of the history of revolutionary movements.

There are no legal parametres or strategic limits for us to base our expression of solidarity towards comrades facing repression. These are not principles that belong to us. Instead we take the path of solidarity, as an integral part of our struggle, which responds to the need of standing beside our friends and affinities when the State has deprived them of their freedom, because we recognize ourselves in their ideas and the way they face repression.