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278:. On Sunday 15 June, a large police operation targeted Vrankrijk, which was a base for the planned counter-demonstrations. Police filmed everyone entering and leaving the building. Some people were arrested and charged with membership of a criminal organisation. Later on, a group of 350 people left Vrankrijk, heading to the police station to support the arrestees. The entire group was arrested and charged with the same crime, making it the largest mass arrest in the Netherlands since 1966. Vrankrijk itself was not raided. A judge was later highly critical of the actions of the police. 175: 29: 1135: 1166: 1150: 519:
Pas begin september kwam er een reaktie van de eigenaar: het bod was te vaag. Hierop werd maandag 9 sept. het bouwbedrijf van de eigenaar bezet door zo'n 50 à 60 mensen. De aktie verliep goed en resulteerde in een gesprek met de Wit (eigenaar van Vrankrijk). Hieruit bleek dat De Wit eventueel nog aan
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Het bekende Vrankrijk bijvoorbeeld, een oude drukkerij aan de Spuistraat in Amsterdam, werd in 1982 bezet om het pand voor de sloop te behoeden. Tien jaar later werd het gebouw met financiële hulp van sympathisanten gekocht en ondergebracht in de stichting Dilemma, al bleef het café formeel wel
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In September 2008, an incident occurred late at night in which two people were thrown out of the bar. When they tried to re-enter, they were aggressive and caused a fight. One of the two, a squatter nicknamed Yoghurt, ended up unconscious and received serious injuries. In consequence
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In 1991, the owner of the building at first threatened to evict the squatters and then offered to sell them the building. The first offer was rejected but after the owner's workplace was occupied by 50 people, he stated he would sell the building if certain conditions were met.
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closed the bar. In 2009, two people were sentenced to two years in jail (8 months suspended) for attacking Yoghurt with a piece of scaffolding pipe. A third person was not punished, since the court decided he had hit Yoghurt but his violence was proportionate.
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Since 1984, the groundfloor functions as a non-commercial events space. Many groups have organised benefits and infonights there. The venue, which is separate to the living spaces above it, remains squatted. In the 2010s, Vrankrijk hosts mainly
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in November 1982 in order to stop its demolition. It had stood empty for 7 years and was in a very bad state. It was repaired by the occupiers and became a central meeting space for the Amsterdam squatters movement, still thriving after the
298:. Fernández, known as Juanra, was the singer of the Barcelona hardcore band KOP. As a result, the police raided Vrankrijk with 200 officers, checking all 14 bedrooms despite only having a warrant to search where Fernández had been staying. 486:
Begin dit jaar dreigde de eigenaar per brief met ontruiming. Na enkele weken trok hij dit dreigement in, hierbij zei hij het pand eventueel te willen verkopen. Aan ons!!!
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Juan Ramón Rodrìguez Fernández was arrested on January 17, 2001 in an Amsterdam supermarket by Dutch police acting on a
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ons wil verkopen als wij een serieus bod doen, bankgaranties hebben, een rechtspersoon hebben en dat binnen 3 weken.
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Ontelbare organisaties en groepen hebben ondertussen in Vrankrijk benefieten/infoavonden met ons georganiseerd.
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Eleftheriadis, K (2015). "Organizational Practices and Prefigurative Spaces in European Queer Festivals".
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The bar reopened in 2012, run by a new collective (Stichting Tweeënveertig). Cohen's successor,
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The 1997 European Council meeting occurred in Amsterdam on 16 and 17 June, resulting in the
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Communal living space established by squatters and self-managed social centre in Amsterdam
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parties. The building itself is well-known in Amsterdam for its colourful facade and
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Je herkent het aan de kleurrijke gevel en de anarchistische leuzen bij de ingang.
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The building was constructed in 1875. It was called Vrankrijk (Frankrijk means '
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gekraakt om een verlies van het politieke karakterte voorkomen.
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PhD: Punk Lives: Contesting Boundaries in the Dutch Punk Scene
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and others to print fake documents for the resistance.
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related to investigations concerning the Basque group
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Vrankrijk building with painted facade
Spuistraat
Coordinates
52°22′18″N 4°53′21″E / 52.371667°N 4.889167°E / 52.371667; 4.889167
vrankrijk.org
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Spuistraat
Amsterdam

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Marten Toonder
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