That Sara and Sandro’s gesture was the decisive affirmation of the “here and now”, we can only imagine. As anarchists and comrades we feel a strong need to stand by them and defend them from anyone who allows themself to slander them. And we are in no doubt that revolutionary violence is part of anarchism and an antiauthoritarian idea that would uproot every kind of oppression and hierarchy. An idea that expresses itself with many varied methods and which, when it decides to use violence, never strikes in the heap but aims its attack against oppression and who and what constitutes one of its gears.It is pointless for the hacks of power, the investigators or whoever else to spout off with hypotheses aimed only at denigrating and speculating on the comrades who have lost their lives. What we want to reaffirm is the defence of an idea of freedom, necessary part of who goes right into the theory and practice of their ideals, who strongly feels this daily tension that pushes them to act, that torments them constantly where injustice and oppression reign.
There are no heroes and heroines, there are revolutionary comrades who choose exactly where they stand and accept the risk, playing a game with the future. That is why in Sara and Sandro’s gesture we see the generosity and tenderness of who loves deeply.
What do those who exterminate entire populations or place bombs in trains or city squares, drown thousands of people in the sea or lock up and torture individuals inside prisons, have to teach other than savagery and cowardice? We are convinced that demolishing is worth it if it serves to eliminate abuse and that is why the State is afraid of a bomb joined with an idea, because it could succeed in making the foundations of iniquity and oppression explode, render visible, show the hypocrisy of a system in act based on daily violence that it wants to gain monopoly of and prevent one from raising one’s head. Prisons, work, the devastation of nature, are we really so blind as to not see the brutality that dominates? Can a gesture of attack really constitute a scandal, when States have no scruples about enrolling and arming young people and sending them to kill and die?
Sara and Sandro were and are in our hearts, two comrades in struggle, and that is what they will remain. Their urgency will continue to be a dialogue with the future: that of an idea against power.
Translated by Act for freedom now!


