megane-kun

Arch Linux with KDE Plasma

Had previous experience on Linux Mint way back, then Ubuntu. Had Manjaro with‌ XFCE for a couple of years before moving on to my current one.

Moving on to Arch, btw, wasn’t my idea. Someone convinced me to let him have a go at converting my Manjaro installation to Arch. It was an interesting experience, but not one that we would want to go through ever again.

Thank you very much for that link! I didn’t even realize there’s an English version of the article. Again, thank you!

The charges of terrorism are strongly rejected by the defendants. They denounce a political trial, a prosecution and a lack of evidence. In particular, they point to decontextualized remarks and the use of trivial facts (sports and digital practices, reading and listening to music…)[3]. For their part, the police acknowledged that by the end of the investigation - and ten months of intensive surveillance - no “precise project” had been identified[4].

The state has just been condemned for keeping the main defendant in solitary confinement for 16 months, from which he was only released after a 37-day hunger strike. A second complaint, awaiting trial, has been lodged against the repeated illegal strip-searches to which a defendant was subjected in pre-trial detention[5].

If those translations from DeepL are sufficiently accurate, at the very least, the main defendant was arrested has been held for 16 months.

As for the rationale, I suppose it’s their relationship with the ‘far-left’ that have caught the police attention. There was a link to the French Wikipedia article on the arrests and the entire incident. From there, I gleaned that the ‘far-left’ relationship is with the YPG.

According to the Wikipedia article, there’s still ongoing cases against the defendants.

I hope someone else who’ve got a better grasp of both the French langauge and the Rovaja/YPG situation give their two cents since I’ve got no idea.

That first article, though I have read it through a translation app, is truly insane. The judge’s quoted statement is just terrifying:

> « L’ensemble des membres de ce groupe se montraient particulièrement méfiants, ne communiquaient entre eux que par des applications cryptées, en particulier Signal, et procédaient au cryptage de leurs supports informatiques […]. »

Translated via DeepL: > “All the members of this group were particularly suspicious, communicating with each other only via encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computer media […]”.

Clandestine behavior, he says. Is the judge seriously thinking along the lines of “if you’ve got nothing to hide…” and associating ‘clandestine behavior’ to being a criminal? That’s scary.

EDIT:

English language version of the first article (much thanks to @vanecx@mastodon.pirateparty.be):‌ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/

That’s great!

Not about you not having a guillotine, of course, but about the notifications about impending strikes. I think that’s sufficiently fair giving people a head’s up—even though it gives management time to prepare and fend-off the strike’s effects.

But I thought protesting is the French pastime?

Just kidding, don’t guillotine me.