[Wandlitz/Germany] Asphalt plant of VINCI/EUROVIA on Fire – for a black spring, for the prisoners in the Amploniki case

Published on de.indymedia, translated on bbb

A circular economy of death and destruction

Faced with climate crisis, extractivist devastation, and imperialist aggression, a burning asphalt mixing plant owned by one of the world’s largest construction and infrastructure companies actually speaks for itself. Nevertheless, we would like to say a few words about our motives and the company that has been attacked. Because VINCI/EUROVIA is much more than just a producer of asphalt and concrete. This company embodies pretty much everything we despise and that makes this world a place full of oppression, suffering, and misery: highways, airports, dams, (deportation-) prisons, nuclear facilities, military equipment, oil and gas pipelines, mining, and much more…

Everyone who wants to know already knows – the biosphere is suffocating under the gray burden of civilization, and in the near future, many regions of the planet will be uninhabitable as a result of our imperial ways of life and economic practices. Battles over living areas and resources on an unseen scale seem unavoidable, and the current escalation of military conflicts and the relentless war against migrants on the streets of US cities or at the EU’s external borders are already grim signs of what this will look like. Since long we running out of time. The late capitalist world system is in the midst of profound upheaval, and war is becoming the new normal, while the remaining natural world serves only as a source of raw materials to be plundered before others do.

Companies such as VINCI are benefiting across the entire spectrum from these developments. By constructing nuclear reactors, oil pipelines, and gas terminals (such as the one in Brunsbüttel), the company understands how to secure the future of fossil fuel dinosaurs while simultaneously profiting from the illusion of green energy through huge wind farms and hydroelectric power plants. With its motorway and road network spanning several thousand kilometers and over 70 airports in 14 different countries, built and operated by VINCI, the company is also a major pillar of the global transport infrastructure, fueling, inch by inch, a parasitic system that knows only one direction – and that’s leading straight into ecological collapse. Land grabbing, wars, and genocide are inextricably woven into this system and have enabled the triumph of capitalism, whereby our “wealth” and Western dominance are undoubtedly a product of this deadly (colonial) history. However, in the international scramble for power, influence, and resources, that Western dominance must increasingly assert itself against other players, which leads once again to senseless bloodshed, while creating a good mood in the management suites of the arms industry. ReArm Europe is the battle cry from Brussels to prevail in this conflict, and VINCI is also playing a major role in this front of rearmament and militarization. Therefor the company recently acquired Wärtsilä SAM Electronics, which maintains several German Navy shipyards or provides infrastructure services for dozens of British Army facilities. Wars and environmental destruction, which have always gone hand in hand with the expansion of capitalist exploitation, are forcing more and more people to leave their homes, and never before have so many people been displaced worldwide as today. The “dispensable” masses of people from the global south are being fought with all severity, and their escape routes have long since turned into mass graves with countless deaths. For those who nevertheless manage to make it all the way here, it is not empathy and compassion that await them, but humiliation, racism, and repression. All of these characteristics, which have shaped the public debate on migration in almost all political camps for years, and thus significantly promote (neo-)fascist tendencies. And here comes full circle. Because even the suffering of refugees can be exploited for profit, and VINCI benefits from the construction of deportation centers and border controls under Europe’s rigorous border regime.

Regardless of all this, the company likes to talk about “responsibility” and “sustainability,” and in light of VINCI’s extensive activities, the much-praised circular economy takes on a whole new meaning, with an extremely bitter flavor. Their arrogance and hypocrisy are unbearable, and we cannot and will not continue to stand idly by and watch them conduct their business of death – For this reason, on the night of March 11, exactly 15 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, we significantly damaged and temporarily shut down the asphalt mixing plant of the nuclear profiteer VINCI/EUROVIA in Schönerlinde/Wandlitz. For this purpose, a little more than half a dozen incendiary devices were placed on various conveyor belts and on the power cables of the motors.

This fireworks display in the Brandenburg night sky is also intended to be a sign of international solidarity and affinity. In particular, we send revolutionary greetings to Marianna M. and Dimitra Z. in the Greek dungeons and to all other prisoners in the Ampelokipi case who are soon to be put on trial. Love and strength! It should also be mentioned here that VINCI, with over 500 km of roads, is one of the largest highway operators in Greece and is also involved in other dirty deeds and environmental destruction in the country. more on this here (switch off the Mitsotakis regime!)

As we can hardly wait for spring to arrive and our urge to be active blossoms with the first rays of sunshine, we also see this attack as an echo of the call from France – for a black spring in 2026 . With the active support of VINCI, the “Grande Nation” is currently building a nuclear waste disposal site for the radioactive waste produced by its favorite energy source. However, this undertaking is being hindered by the occupied La Gare site and a vibrant resistance community, which is why the old trainstation is now to be evicted. We see things very differently, which is why we are striving to “bring the wheels to a halt a little more” and hope that our smoke signals of solidarity can be seen on the horizon.

Warmer than nuclear – for a black spring!

Against all wars – in Iran, Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine…

No one is free until we are all free!

Fire to the Prisons!

In memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris – revolutionary hearts burn forever!

„Andif some never returned, they live among us in every breath of freedom. And if some fell in battle, they stand by us in every action we take. And if some left early, they walk before us and pave the way for us. […] And their subversive memory acts like fuel to our fires, like ink in our texts, like slogans in our marches and like stones in our pockets, giving meaning to their death, calling them for another battle. Again and again…“ Dimitra Z, Marianna M, Korydallos Women’s Prison

Btw: Dobrindt is an idiot and will probably never understand that there are people whose values cannot be bought. Our response to their witch hunt is a simple equation: one million bounty = one million property damage. The night belongs to us! For more flame-spewing volcanoes!

16/03/2026

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