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<h1 class="reader-title">Anarchist Activist Killed for Fighting
US 'Concentration Camps'</h1>
Published 15 July 2019</div>
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<p>United States Anarchist and anti-fascist activist, Will
Van Spronsen, was killed Saturday by the police in
the state of Washington while trying to take direct
action against a migration concentration camp, by
setting up migrants deportation buses on fire. </p>
<p>The killing occurred a few hours after a peaceful
demonstration against the migrants’ detention camp when
four police officers shot the 69-year-old campaigner in
the head. Van Spronsen is likely the first person to be
killed trying to directly fight against detention
facilities and to help migrants.</p>
<p>Anarchists from the U.S. and friends of Van Spronsen
paid him tribute on Monday saying that the long-time
activist was a kind and loving person as well as a
militant devoted to his ideas, always fighting to help
those who have no way to defend themselves or who are
completely vulnerable in the face of State brutality.</p>
<p>They also stated not knowing what had exactly happened
as the unique information they got were from the police
which, they said is “notoriously corrupt and unreliable
sources for such a narrative.”</p>
<p>“The story that we do have is that Will attempted to
set fire to several vehicles, outbuildings and a propane
tank outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma
which houses hundreds of immigrants awaiting hearings or
deportations,” adding that “he successfully set one
vehicle on fire and then exchanged gunfire with Tacoma
police officers who fatally shot him. He was pronounced
dead on the scene.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WillemVanSpronsen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WillemVanSpronsen</a>
is a hero & the rest of us Cowards. Any
radical who seeks to liberate children women and
men from Camps should be hailed as a champion.
Rest in Power and may your fellow comrades never
let your death be in vain. <a
href="https://t.co/JsX3USiCiK">pic.twitter.com/JsX3USiCiK</a></p>
— #WillemVanSpronsen☭ ���� (@DarkoftheWeb) <a
href="https://twitter.com/DarkoftheWeb/status/1150423997588357120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">14
juillet 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p>Another statement made by La Resistencia, a group led
by undocumented migrants and U.S. citizens based in
Tacoma and dedicated at fighting the detention and
deportation of migrants, noted that “Van Spronsen
actions sadly reflect the level of desperation people
across this country feel about the government’s
outrageous violence against immigrants, which includes
the use of detention centers to cage migrants both
currently living in the US and those seeking asylum.”</p>
<p>The private immigration prison run by GEO Group, a
company specializing in privatized corrections and
detention, on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) is known for frequently falling short
on human rights and has seen various protests demanding
for its closure .</p>
<p>The center, along with deporting migrants, also
detains parents who have been separated from their
children under Donald Trump’s migration policies.</p>
<p>“We are grief-stricken, inspired and enraged by what
occurred early this morning. ICE imprisons, tortures and
deports hundreds of thousands of people and the
brutality and scale of their harm are only escalating.
We need every form of resistance, solidarity, and
passion to fight against ICE and the borders that they
defend,” a statement from the U.S. anarchists read. </p>
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