Tuesday the 2nd of November at the University of Nanterre (Paris, France) 50 hooded students attacked a wall with two home-made battering rams and two sledgehammers. Twenty security guards of the University tried to intervene. Five of them got injured. The whole crew got away as smokebombs filled the hall. Outside of the building huge fireworks exploded in the sky, celebrating their escape. A student supposedly reckognized during the assault is now in jail waiting for his trial.

For more than a year now, it seems like numerous french universities have been victims of assaults by anonymous groups. Cameras get smashed by hooded gangs, graffiti filled the walls, walls get destroyed, stupid leftist debates get sabotaged, doors lock get glued, Lecture Halls got ravaged and eventually, a dean got his nose broken during a demonstration.

Nanterre University, cradle of may 68 upheavals, has a long tradition of uncontrollable students. In response to the ongoing threat to imperial peace in the last years, pacification and control devices have been set up. Cameras everywhere, armed security guards, pressure on political people etc. Until last year the administration decided to split, by building walls, the huge hall where students used to hang out. Now they could only circulate. Quickly one of the wall became the target for students anger. In april as hundreds of them gathered around the wall to protest the security/control policy, a black masked crew armed with battering rams managed to totally destoy it.

The wall was then rebuilt.

This year, various graffiti pieces announced that the students were still angry. Pacification of behaviors = massification of fears, citizen = cop, and even Yes to the assassination of Audeoud (Audeoud being the name of the president of the University) could be read on the walls. For one month an illegal weekly banquet was held in front of the wall. Last tuesday, a hooded gang managed to destroy the wall once again. This time the security guards lost their temper and tried to intervene. At one point they started to insult and impress the students who were making a line around the deconstruction team, one of them eventually said to a protesting woman: I’m gonna rape you til you bleed, bitch. They persisted and eventually started to hit masked people. Push came to shove, chairs started to fly on them, and a brawl broke out, leaving five of them hurt in the midst of smokebombs as the students fought their way out, leaving no prisoners. As everyone ran outside, distributing the last blows to still daring guards, fireworks exploded in the sky.



this is the youth liberation front.

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