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Terrorism or Tragicomedy?

Giorgio Agamben

(English)

On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to
the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the
Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people
 (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the cultural life of the
 village).Four days later, these nine people were sent before an anti-terrorist
 judge and "accused of criminal conspiracy with terrorist intentions." The
newspapers reported that the Ministry of the Interior and the Secretary of
State "had congratulated local and state police for their diligence."
Everything is in order, or so it would appear. But let's try to examine the
facts a little more closely and grasp the reasons and the results of this
"diligence."

First the reasons: the young people under investigation "were tracked by the
police because they belonged to the ultra-left and the anarcho autonomous
milieu." As the entourage of the Ministry of the Interior specifies, "their
discourse is very radical and they have links with foreign groups." But there
is more: certain of the suspects "participate regularly in political
demonstrations," and, for example, "in protests against the Fichier Edvige
(Exploitation Documentaire et Valorisation de l'Information Ge'ne'rale) and
against the intensification of laws restricting immigration."  So  political
activism (this is the only possible meaning of linguistic monstrosities such as
 "anarcho autonomous milieu") or the active exercise of political freedoms, and
 employing a radical discourse are therefore sufficient reasons to call in the
anti-terrorist division of the police (SDAT) and the central intelligence
office of the Interior (DCRI). But anyone possessing a minimum of political
conscience  could not help sharing the concerns of these young people when
faced with the degradations of democracy entailed by the Fichier Edvige,
biometrical technologies and the hardening of immigration laws.

As for the results, one might expect that investigators found weapons,
explosives and Molotov cocktails on the farm in Millevaches. Far from it.
SDAT officers discovered "documents containing detailed information on railway
 transportation, including  exact arrival and departure times of trains."
In plain French: an SNCF train schedule. But they also confiscated "climbing
gear." In simple French: a ladder, such as one might find in any country house.

Now let's turn our attention to the suspects and, above all, to the presumed
head of this terrorist gang, "a 33 year old leader from a well-off Parisian
background, living off an allowance from his parents." This is Julien Coupat,
a young philosopher who (with some friends) formerly published Tiqqun,
a journal whose political analyses--while no doubt debatable--count among the
most intelligent of our time. I knew Julien Coupat during that period and,
from an intellectual point of view, I continue to hold him in high esteem.

Let's move on and examine the only concrete fact in this whole story.
The suspects' activities are supposedly connected with criminal acts against
the SNCF that on  November 8 caused delays of certain TGV trains on the
Paris-Lille line. The devices in question, if we are to believe the
declarations of the police and the SNCF agents themselves, can in no way cause
harm to people: they can, in the worst case, hinder communications between
trains causing delays. In Italy, trains are often late, but so far no one has
dreamed of accusing the national railway of terrorism. It's a  case of minor
offences, even if we don't condone them. On November 13, a police  report
prudently affirmed that there are perhaps "perpetrators among those in custody,
 but it is not possible to attribute a criminal act to any one of them."

The only possible conclusion to this shadowy affair is that those engaged in
activism against the (in any case debatable) way social and economic problems
are managed today are considered ipso facto as potential terrorists, when not
even one act can justify this accusation. We must have the courage to say with
clarity that today, numerous European countries (in particular France and Italy
), have introduced laws and police measures that we would previously have
judged barbaric and anti-democratic, and that these are no less extreme than
those put into effect in Italy under fascism. One such measure authorizes the
detention for ninety-six hours of a group of young--perhaps careless--people,
to whom "it is not possible to attribute a criminal act." Another, equally
serious, is the adoption of laws that criminalize association, the formulations
 of which are left intentionally vague and that allow the classification of
political acts as having terrorist "intentions" or "inclinations," acts that
until now were never in themselves considered terrorist.


Reference

http://www.cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/Tarnac9/#agamben


本文為紀念"個別的十人"事件而轉。

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