Since the first minutes following yesterday morning terrorist attacks in Brussels, the hashtag #BrusselsOnFire started to circulate on Twitter. Through this hashtag the supporters of Daesh celebrated the attack to the heart of the Belgian capital, repeating the same script of November 13, when #ParisOnFire was chosen as the virtual salute to the massacre of Bataclan.It seems to easy to see the analogies between the two events that mostly affected European history of the last decades. If in Paris the attack was against the spaces of the life in common and of sociability, in Brussels the target was represented by the spaces of urban mobility. The fundamentalist terror directs its violence against the bodies that live and move within the the space of the urban relations. And this is the indisputable fact that historically marks the basis of any form of conservative and reactionary violence.
But there is another aspect that is
worthy analyzing in this cartography of terror that is coming to
light in the “old continent”. Starting from the satirical
newspaper, through the art of Paris social life, yesterday morning
the attacks targeted the metro station of Maalbeeck, a few steps away
from the political heart of the European Union. As a matter of fact,
by ratifying the indefensibility of its most representative
institutions, Daesh sanctions the point of no return of the general
crisis of the European Union.
The black smoke raising from
Maalbeek also covers the buildings of the European Commission, of the
Council and the Parliament, right when Shengen and Maastricht, two of
the pillars that guided the process of the formal and material
European integration, are strongly questioned.
It is important to note that Brussels was attacked only two days after the agreement between the EU and Turkey on the repatriation of migrants, where the Belgian city was the centre of one of the biggest humanitarian and political shames of contemporary history.
If Daesh was abel to strike Europe's organizational and political soft spot, this happened also because of the complete failure of its intelligence, as Alberto Negri writes on the Italian newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”.
«Europe must realize» writes the journalist «that terrorism lives among us, that victims and executioners stand closer, that are not isolated events, that have deep roots between middle eastern wars and the conflicts». The huge security measures used in the Belgian capital after the Paris attacks have been useless. In a Bruxelles considered as the center of the European fundamentalist terrorism and fallen again in a scenary that has reminded the images and the sensations of World War Two, terrorists had had all the time and the calm to organize the attacks at the airport and on the underground and to act in the most right moment. Even if everything still need to be demonstrated, the relation between the attacks of yesterday and the 18th March blitz that brought to the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the mind of Paris attacks and presumed reformed terrorist, seems far from casual.
The failure of intelligence, and in general of all the security method, bring us to some considerations. Firs of all, Daesh confirms its political-military strenght, able to act on a global scale (we report, only in the month of March, the attacks at the Grand Bassam resort, in Ivory Coast and the Ben Guerdane attack in Tunisia, on the borther with Lybia), and more than other, the ability to organize itself in a territorial and local level, with an high ability of enlistment on the edges of European towns. Border spaces and social pain, that in the last years saw a mixture of the historical limits of the cultural integration processes and the material difficulties that affected the second and third generations of migrants in the age of crisis. Secondly, the fact that the creation of the “emergency state”, in France after November 13 and later all over the European space, was not a method to contrast fundamentalist terrorism, but was more bound to be a normalized attack to the freedoms and the collective and individual rights. In other words, the emergency state represents the European common condition in which the Rule of Law is deprived of all its historical and juridical authority.
The new power structures, that in this phase are defining the transit troughout the post democracy, of which the emergency state is political and institutional expression (how shows the emendation of the Constitution in France), are the same that rule the new financial crisis, in which stagnation and the increase of liquidity create the conditions for ciclical speculation bubbles, the so called borders crisis, in which Fortress Europe take new carachteristics on the manage of migratory fluxes.
Economical, political, social and humanitarian crisis united on a new centrality gained by Mediterranean sea on the geo-political context and of the strategical interests, represent the elements of the global war in its contemporary version. War hold terrorism and not the contrary. War and terror feed one each other and have the same necropolitic code that act with extreme violence against any form of transformation, or of forward push, of the existing world.
In order to stop the terrorism violences, From Belgium to Ivory Coast, from France to Kurdistan, to stop the massacre of civilians that happens every day in several areas interested from conflicts, we need to struggle against the global war of the capital. Far from any rethorical ambition, we have to, now and here, define the strategical and pratical connections to contrast who, using the muliform dimension of war, strengthen its own extractive ability exploiting resources and grab territories, redistribute wealth toward above by financing the economy and reproduce itself, on the biopolitical context, by instigating to the battle of the have-nots.
Traduzione a cura di Marco Baravalle e Carlo Geromel
