{"id":69,"date":"2008-11-20T20:15:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T20:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-11-20T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T20:35:19","slug":"sncf-arrests-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2008\/11\/sncf-arrests-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"SNCF Arrests (update 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/situationalistwelders.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"72\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2008\/11\/sncf-arrests-update-4\/situationalistwelders\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/situationalistwelders.jpg?fit=256%2C309\" data-orig-size=\"256,309\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"situationalistwelders\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Part of the contraption to pull down power lines construted by situationalist sociology students, according to French police.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/situationalistwelders.jpg?fit=248%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/situationalistwelders.jpg?fit=256%2C309\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72\" title=\"situationalistwelders\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/situationalistwelders-248x300.jpg?resize=248%2C300\" caption id=\"attachment_72\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"248\" caption=\"Part of the contraption to pull down power lines construted by situationalist sociology students, according to French police.\" alt=\"Part of the contraption to pull down power lines construted by situationalist sociology students, according to French police.\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/situationalistwelders.jpg?resize=248%2C300 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/situationalistwelders.jpg?w=256 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest news on the Tarnac arestees.\u00a0 Four of the nine are released under the equivilent of bail, but still face possible charges.\u00a0 They were held four four days of interogations, though the police still don&#8217;t seem to have any direct evidence against any of them.\u00a0 Five (which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/medias\/0101266655-fabrication-d-epouvantails-mode-d-emploi\" target=\"_blank\">predictably frantic Le Figaro<\/a> calls &#8220;The Hard Core&#8221; of situationalist students) remain in jail awaiting trial.\u00a0 Le Monde has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/article\/2008\/11\/20\/sabotages-a-la-sncf-les-neuf-de-tarnac_1120974_3224.html\" target=\"_blank\">surprisingly sensitive portrait<\/a>\u00a0of the ordeal of one of the four released, and identifies each of the arrestees.\u00a0 The charges remain the same as those in the last post here.<\/p>\n<p>Those facing the heaviest charges, and still detained are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julien Coupat (34) accused ringleader<\/li>\n<li>Yldune L., 25, Archeolology Student<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin R., 30 ,\u00a0Poly Sci grad from the University of\u00a0Rennes and former student of Development and environmental Sociology at the University of Edinburgh.<\/li>\n<li>Elsa H., 23\u00a0 English Grad student arrested in Rouen,<\/li>\n<li>Bertrand D., 22 Sociology Grad student, also arrested in Rouen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four released but possibly facing lesser though serious charges are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gabrielle H., 29 , a student nurse,<\/li>\n<li>Manon G., 25, a prize winning classically trained clarinetist,<\/li>\n<li>Aria T., 26, a Swiss actress known for her role in the sitcom <em>Les Pique-Meurons<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Mathieu B., 27, a former sociology student from the Parisien Ecole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While we await the trial, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/actualites\/social\/20081113.OBS0753\/manifestation_europeenne_contre_la_liberalisation_ferro.html\" target=\"_blank\">SNCF workers rallied in Paris<\/a>\u00a0against\u00a0rail priviatisation plans, staged a work stoppage, and forced the SNCF to <a href=\"http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/actualites\/social\/20081119.OBS1655\/fret__la_sncf_ajourne_sa_reforme_pour_eviter_la_greve.html\" target=\"_blank\">back off of some of its more objectionable proposals<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Le Figaro, who have been the most energetic in convicting these nine students without trial, was also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/medias\/0101267592-quand-le-figaro-gomme-la-bague-de-dati?xtor=RSS-450\" target=\"_blank\">caught out today Liberation, for photoshoping a picture of law-and-order Justice Minister Rachida Dati<\/a> to remove the huge diamond encrusted ring from her iron hands: a ring reportedly worth a cool 15,600 Euros!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news on the Tarnac arestees.  Four of the nine are released under the equivilent of bail, but still face possible charges.  They were held four four days of interogations, though the police still don&#8217;t seem to have any direct evidence against any of them.  Five (which the predictably frantic Le Figaro calls &#8220;The Hard Core&#8221; of situationalist students) remain in jail awaiting trial.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2008\/11\/sncf-arrests-update-4\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[14,15,566],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}