In a dead environment, a small line of people are advancing through Hendaia towards the Retention Centre, which has been conceived as a giant detention facility, where some G7 opponents are imprisoned. Hundreds and hundreds of police units of all kinds are formed in a fence, as if they were drowned. Two helicopters and one drone are leading the improvised demonstration made up of several dozen people calling for the release of protesters detained the day before. Shortly before, for the purpose of marching on this march, all the people who had left the camp had already been taken into consideration, with meticulous care. A participant, with a sigh of sadness, says: “It’s the worst known controversy in history.”

A quote from these days in Biarritz:

A STATE OF POLICE.

As the media has announced in recent weeks, the repressive mechanism is insane. It's not to say an exact word. For some years now, however, France has been a law enforcement laboratory. Banned demonstrations have been seen, dozens wounded, killed. On 1 May this year he was haunted by a gas storm, chasing the trade unionists. This had never been seen. The penalties have been imprisonment, the use of anti-terrorism against the Protestants. They've released ten thousand ammunition. All of this has already happened.

But this G7 is out of mind. 20,000 police officers. Hundreds of voltigeurs (invented in 1968): motorcycle policemen to really hunt their oponentes.Controlados 5, 6, 10 from one street to another. Journalists arrested, sometimes detained. Boarding equipment. Protesters for wearing a scarf and glasses in the cell. The detainees are observers from, among others, the Human Rights League and Amnesty International. Three young Germans are signed as “militant” prisoners. Threatened lawyers. Helicopters, drones, spies… Previous summits – Hamburg, Genoa, Seattle- were, of course, safety demonstrations. At least it could manifest itself in the city or around it. In France in 2019, it's become really unthinkable. An entire county has been occupied by a bell of lead. France has reached the limits of what a “democratic” regime can use the police as a state. What will be the next?

SPECTRAL CITIES.

Until now, the powerful could meet each other with the closure of some neighborhoods of a large city.

This French G7 has outperformed all the others.

Macron has privatized three cities. Militarize in Biarritz, Baiona, above Angelu. Three cities in which fundamental rights have been suspended. Keeping the environment on an equal footing. The corners have the image of the Revelation. Streets have become deserts, neighborhoods have become phantoms. There is nothing more than all kinds of uniform. And sometimes, some rivals, scared. As surprised by what happened, they looked and sought a meeting point. The shops are closed. Deck covers. An atmosphere of disaster in the kilometers.

I had never seen it.

DISABILITY.

In the face of this siege, in the face of this brutal state violence, with the freedoms so clearly stripped away, what is the reaction of the organizers of the “counter-summit”? The abandonment of activities scheduled for Sunday. A press release has highlighted the "success" of mobilisation and has announced the "interruption" of upcoming citations. Earlier, the same “organizers” put vigilantes in place to protect banks, police and police stations. The platform has chosen to protect the facades of shops against basic freedoms.

The arde land, the states are increasingly militarized, it is in every disaster. But the forms of action of the alterglobalists have never been so ridiculous, ineffective, useless. Faced with such an out-of-the-box situation. However, Macron’s portraits were received in town halls, where they were showcased to dozens of journalists on Sunday morning. There are many who don't understand it. The organization has predicted “the consensus of non-violence”, in the end, has not been considered or “violent”, because it has left the way to state violence free without any action. Agreeing with the authorities and organizing a parade with no incidence, along tens of kilometers from the top, and stopping without replicating in the face of the unacceptable police aggression in the anti-G7 camp, think and refute the actions, assuming part of the “Platforms against the G7” order service. What is the most serious thing? That before the list of concessions, the Government will be happy. You can say that your device has worked well. That it can also be reused to silence other protests. These concessions have not only led to impotence, but have also legitimized repression.

IMAGINATION.

What was missing? Surely imagination. Does the leap from the authorities to the strains still make sense the force of repression? Are you interested in the opposite cimes of the G7, especially those that don't have to disturb the powerful? May the victory of brute force in this G7 not produce bad smells, but bring us to imagine new forms of struggle. Traditional structures no longer have imagination, but Jaka These have shown that collective intelligence can change everything.

Let's be creators, insensitive, attentive, joyful, skilled.

Let's be where nobody's waiting for us.

Note: It is the article of the Nantes Révoltée website that you have read, a reader has translated it into Basque and sent it to ARGIA.