RESALP, A COMPANY THAT SELECT ITS PASSENGERS AND THAT HELPS THE BORDER GUARDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
Resalp is a french transportation company that runs the bus line connecting Italy and France from Oulx (TO) to Briançon. Since years, every day, this line is used by dozens of people that don’t have the documents in order to pass the border “legally”. Many leave with the bus from Oulx and arrive in Claviere,…
RACIST BORDERS, ACCOMPLICE TOURISM
The ski season begins. Updates from the border from fb Chez JesOulx Self-managed refuge The past saturday, after two years, the ski lifts of Montgenèvre have reopened. While ski slopes, bars and restaurants are filled with the usual rich tourists, free to enjoy their privileges, paf and gendarmerie continue to stop people considered “illegal” who…
ABOUT THE EVICTION OF THE CASA CANTONIERA IN CLAVIERE
Yesterday, the Casa Cantoniera de Claviere, a self-managed shelter occupied since last Saturday, was evicted. At dawn, the DIGOS agents waited until the barricades behind the main door were open, before breaking it down and entering the house. The intervention trucks arrived around seven o’clock, half an hour later, while the 19 people inside were…
LUNCH AND PUBLIC ASSEMBLY TODAY AT THE NEW SELF-MANAGED REFUGE IN CLAVIERE
Yestarday, the new self-maneged shelter, the now occupied Casa Cantoniera in Claviere was reached by many people. In the early hours of the morning, we faced moments of tension as the Digos attempted to intimidate us and to enter by kicking the door. We resisted and, when at 11 o’clock the demonstration reached the new…
A new self-managed refuge is born: the Casa Cantoniera in Claviere is occupied!
A new self-managed refuge is born: the Casa Cantoniera in Claviere is occupied! Yesterday the Casa Cantoniera of Claviere was occupied. This house, abandoned for years, is owned by ANAS, which was coresponsible for the eviction of Chez JesOulx. From today, we are reviving it as a solidarity shelter open to all and a place…
Updates from the Montgenevre’ border
Over the past weeks, the people passing through and the solidarity against this border has not stopped. Last Tuesday, the italian cops showed up again at Oulx bus station. They asked for documents, effectively stopping who didn’t have papers from taking the 8:55 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. buses and reach the border. Whether some man…
UPDATE FROM THE MONGINEVRO BORDER
On Thursday, August 5th, the Ex Occupied Customs Office of Claviere was evicted. The building had been occupied six days before by a large group of people who since then had been engaged in the construction of a self-organized solidarity refuge against the borders. At about 5:30 a.m., while every access way to the village…
EVICTION OF THE OCCUPIED FORMER CUSTOMS HOUSE
This morning at 6 o’clock we woke up to the shots of carabinieri, police and firemen destroying the barricades. We are currently on our way out, being identified and denounced for aggravated occupation. The people of passage without papers who were at the infopoint were removed by the Red Cross and the police to identify…
The Occupied Customs calls
The first day in the occupied customs house was intense and participated. The works on the construction of the self-organised refuge continued uninterruptedly and we maintained a massive presence inside and outside the building. There was an immediate and widespread solidarity from both sides of the Alps. The shy and awkward presence of the cops…
CLAVIERE’S EX CUSTOMS OCCUPIED | AGAINST EVERY BORDER
Today, we have occupied Claviere’s ex customs. The building place that represented both border’s control and repression, and free circulation of products and tourists, now becomes a self-organized refuge, a space for political organization and direct solidarity, free and open to everyone. We decided to occupy again to maintain a presence on the border and…