Federazione Anarchica Informale

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The Federazione Anarchica Informale (FAI, Informal Anarchist Federation) is an international anarchist group from Italy, which has been using letter bombs since 2003 .

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According to confessors, the FAI consists of 13 independent cells, including the “July 20th Brigade”, the “Cells against Capital, the Prison, Its Overseers and Cells” (C5) and the “Lambros Fountas Revolutionary Cell”. The latter had distanced itself from an attack under her name in 2010, so there may be two of them.

attacks

The FAI first appeared in 2003 and 2004. According to the Italian authorities, at least 77 “parcel and letter bombs” are said to have been sent to the European Central Bank by “anarchists” between October 2003 and July 2004 . According to the criminologist Christian Pfeiffer , these envelopes "did not contain any explosives, but a flammable substance that bursts into a flame when opened."

In 2005 police, prisons, Catholic institutions and personnel service providers in Italy and Switzerland were among the attack targets. There were easily injured victims.

In December 2010, letter bombs were sent to the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, where the bomb exploded and seriously injured people, and in March 2011 to the nuclear lobby organization Swissnuclear in Olten.

In 2011, the FAI again sent letter bombs, this time with explosive content, according to US security agencies. A German police spokesman spoke of powder that is believed to be flammable and could blow up. One of the goals was Josef Ackermann . The head of an Italian financial administration, Marco Cuccagna, was slightly injured when opening one of the bombs.

In May 2012, the FAI sent Calabria a letter threatening an attack on the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti . The Prime Minister was one of seven remaining targets, it said in a letter. This was received by two regional newspapers in Calabria. In the same month, the 59-year-old nuclear manager Roberto Adinolfi was shot in the right knee, a letter of confession was published by the cell "Olga" of the FAI, which announced seven further attacks on representatives of the semi-state parent company Finmeccanica .

In June 2012, during a raid on 40 apartments, the Italian police arrested 10 people suspected of being members of the FAI or the Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale . The investigation was carried out against 24 people, including six Greek anarchists, Gabriel Pombo Da Silva and Marco Camenisch, who were imprisoned in Germany .

classification

The FAI does not come out with public letters of confession or discursive papers and can therefore not be classified. Indirect publications speak of the "destruction of state and capital", explain the strategy with the fight against people and institutions who are responsible for the imprisonment of activists, the choice of goals at the discretion of the individual groups as a general "revolutionary campaign" and as a form of communication between the groups. The attack targets therefore did not follow a clear pattern. While in circles of established politics the authorship in anarchist circles has not been questioned, organized anarchism like the Federazione Anarchica Italiana, which has also appeared under FAI since 1945, has clearly distanced itself from the Federazione Anarchica Informale and assumes a group under a false flag, the one Strategy that wants to promote tension.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documento-incontro Federazione Anarchica Informale a 4 anni , ch.indymedia.org , accessed December 11, 2011
  2. ↑ We again? by Bernd Drücke from: Graswurzelrevolution No. 286 (February 2004), accessed December 9, 2011
  3. ↑ apa.online.fr , accessed December 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Italian anarchists profess themselves ( Memento from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Tagesschau.de from December 9, 2011
  5. ^ Originator of the attempted assassination attempt on Ackermann: FAI - Anarchists distance themselves | STERN.de. Retrieved on August 22, 2016 (German).
  6. ^ Anarchist group also avowed the attack in Rome , Hamburger Abendblatt , December 9, 2011
  7. ^ Anarchists threaten to attack Prime Minister Monti , Spiegel.de, May 16, 2012
  8. ↑ Italian anarchists kneecap nuclear executive and threaten more shootings on guardian.co.uk May 11, 2012
  9. ↑ Raid in Italy - police arrest ten suspicious anarchists on Spiegel online , June 13, 2012
  10. ^ Raids on alleged letter bombers by Michael Braun on taz.de , June 13, 2012
  11. ↑ Seduta di giovedì 8 gennaio 2004 , accessed on December 11, 2011.
  12. ^ FAI - Anarchists distance themselves from Manuela Pfohl, stern.de , December 9, 2011