French authorities have charged a 34-year-old activist with attempted murder of a public official for his alleged role in the arson that ravaged Limoges’ 19th-century city hall, linking him to an off-the-grid family with a history of eco-anarchist attacks on infrastructure.
Hodei Ciarra Docampo was arrested in a dawn raid last month in the isolated community of Bussière-Boffy, where he lived with family members previously investigated for sabotaging electricity infrastructure. The case has become a flashpoint in France’s struggle with far-left unrest that has left over 1,000 officers and protesters injured in recent months.
The Limoges Attack
Prosecutors allege surveillance footage shows Docampo throwing a trash can into the burning neo-Renaissance building that had survived two world wars. His lawyer Henri Braun called the evidence “very thin,” but an appeals court ordered him held in pretrial detention this week. If convicted, Docampo faces life in prison.
A Family’s Radical History
Court documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal describe Docampo’s Spanish-born father Fernando Ramirez as an anarchist with alleged ties to Basque separatists. Ramirez was convicted earlier this year of torching trucks belonging to France’s Enedis utility company and burning television antennas that disrupted service for a million people. Graffiti near one attack read: “Not 5G, nor TGV but the voice of the wind and the song of the birds.”
During police questioning, Ramirez denied specific involvement but defended infrastructure attacks as necessary messaging. “For people to hear the message, it has to come to this,” he said, according to interrogation records.
An Isolated Community Under Scrutiny
Authorities have monitored the family for years, viewing their rural compound as a hub for anti-government activists opposed to smart meters and development projects they consider tools of state surveillance. The family has hosted travelers in violation of local regulations, drawing both praise from neighbors and clashes with officials.
“This isn’t a criminal family,” longtime neighbor Paul Lacoste told the Journal. “They have always supported travelers or young people who arrive suddenly and need a place to stay.”
The case emerges amid broader European concerns about foreign interference in left-wing protests, with Fox News reporting most rioters are far-left actors and some officials suspecting Chinese and Russian amplification of unrest.
Source: www.dailywire.com — https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-off-grid-ultra-left-extremists-burning-down-france