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427:"Across the hill from the farm where Coupat was arrested, Thierry Letellier, the independent mayor of the neighbouring village, tended his sheep farm. He said: "They were my neighbours, helping me on the farm and selling my meat at the shop. They were kind, intelligent and spoke several languages. They were politicised, on the left and clearly anti-capitalist like lots of people here, but they were people active in community life who wanted to change society at a local level first."
458:"In the dawn hours of November 27, 2009, the French antiterror police descended into Tarnac once again to arrest a new suspect for the case, a man in his 30s named Christophe, whom the police believed to be close with the Tarnac Nine. Enraged by the arrest, the Tarnac Nine went on the offensive and wrote an acerbic letter to their judges that was published in
354:"Bertrand Deveaux, 22, Elsa Hauck, 24, Aria Thomas, 27, Matthieu Burnel, 27, Gabrielle Hallez, 30, Manon Glibert, 25, Benjamin Rosoux, 30 and Yildune Lévy, 25 have all since regained their freedom, albeit under judicial supervision. Only Julien Coupat, 34, considered the leader, remains incarcerated." —Translated from the French at
475:"Jérémie Assous is one of the defense lawyers for the Tarnac Nine. Manon Glibert, one of those indicted in the case, asked Assous to ensure the defense of Christophe Becker, her husband, arrested this morning in Tarnac. Becker will not be able to see his lawyer until the end of a 72-hour custody." —Translated from the French at
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575:"Giorgio Agamben and Luc Boltanski wrote editorials decrying the disproportion and hysteria of this repressive operation. A petition was circulated by Eric Hazan, publisher and friend of Coupat, and signed by Badiou, Bensaïd, Butler, Rancière, Žižek and several others." (p. 2.)
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405:(Duyé): For his part, Julien Coupat declared in an explicit way when he responded to the questions of the examining magistrate that he wasn’t only at Seine-en-Marne during the night of 7 to 8 November 2008, but also that he was in your company.
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Information and energy circulate via wire networks, fibers and channels, and these can be attacked. Nowadays sabotaging the social machine with any real effect involves reappropriating and reinventing the ways of interrupting its networks.
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