The Daily Beast, “James Fields Found Guilty of Murdering Anti-Racism Protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville”

James Alex Fields Jr., the white nationalist accused of deliberately plowing his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during the 2017 Charlottesville white-nationalist rally, was found guilty on Friday of murdering one of those counter-protesters. Fields, 21, an Ohio native, was charged with first-degree murder last year following the hit-and-run attack, which killed 32-year-old Heather […]

The Guardian, “Leftwing ‘anarchist terror cell’ is fiction, French judges rule “

French judges have acquitted eight people accused of being part of an anarchist group that attempted to sabotage part of France’s high-speed rail network a decade ago, ruling that the group itself had been a “fiction”. Defence lawyers had accused the government and authorities under the former rightwing president Nicolas Sarkozy of wrongly claiming there […]

RFI, “French anarchist sabotage trial turns to farce”

Ten years after being rounded up in a well-publicised raid by anti-terror police, defendants in a trial for the alleged sabotage of a rail line did their best to ridicule the prosecution and show their lack of respect for the court this week. The case, which started out as an accusation of a terrorist plot, […]

The Guardian, “French ‘anarchist cell’ goes on trial for alleged TGV rail sabotage”

Accused say politicians meddled in high-profile case to portray themselves as tough on crime. Members of an alleged anarchist organisation have gone on trial accused of attempting to sabotage part of France’s high-speed rail network a decade ago. Investigators say the Tarnac group deliberately placed steel rods on overhead power cables on three TGV lines. […]