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Montreal woman suffers concussion after anarchists attack wrong home in ‘war on AI’

A Montreal woman suffered a concussion after far-left activists allegedly attacked her Rosemont home while apparently believing they were targeting the residence of an artificial intelligence entrepreneur.

According to La Presse, the incident occurred during the night of July 29, when an individual armed with a hammer smashed the glass of the home’s front door and damaged a window.

There was one rather significant problem with the alleged political attack: they had the wrong resident.

The AI entrepreneur apparently being targeted had moved out of the property roughly a year earlier.

The attack was claimed in a statement signed by a group calling itself the “Revolutionary Anarchist Liberation Front,” which purported to “declare war on AI.” A video accompanying the statement reportedly showed an individual smashing the glass of the front door with a hammer.

Instead, the current resident was left dealing with the consequences.

According to La Presse, the woman came downstairs after hearing the commotion and was struck in the head when a rock was thrown through a window. She was later diagnosed with a concussion.

The intended target was reportedly the founder of a Montreal artificial intelligence startup who had previously lived at the address.

Montreal police are investigating the incident, while La Presse reported the file has been transferred to the SPVM’s hate crimes and incidents unit.

The case appears to be a politically motivated attack aimed at the technology industry that managed to injure someone who had nothing to do with the intended target.

The self-described revolutionaries may have declared war on artificial intelligence. Their intelligence on the address, however, was apparently about a year out of date.

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French Leftist Anarchists Claim Responsibility for Cannes Power Outage Sabotage

Far-left anarchists have claimed responsibility for sabotage attacks on electrical systems and causing power outages in Southern France over the weekend, including at the Cannes Film Festival.

Posting on the far-left online platform IndyMedia, an anonymous group of anarcho-radicals claimed to have sabotaged key electrical infrastructure over the weekend, which left around 160,00 people without power in the Alpes-Maritimes department and around 45,000 in Nice.

The suspected sabotage attacks began in the late hours of Friday evening and continued through Sunday, briefly impacting the closing of the Cannes Film Festival, which the leftist arsonists branded an “obscene ceremony by a sea that has become a refugee cemetery.” However, the event organisers were able to run the programme off backup generators, and therefore, the finale was ultimately uninterrupted.

The supposed saboteurs, who described themselves as “two bands of anarchists”, said that their intention was to both interrupt the film festival as well as shut off power to Thales Alenia Space and other French defence contractors in the region, which they accused of fostering a world which “will not stop bombing, exploiting, extracting, grabbing, raping, ravaging, starving, machine-gunning, polluting, and exterminating, until everything is under its control.”

They accused the French government of being hypocritical, saying that while it preaches the principles of “progress on the international scene,” it is the second-largest arms exporter in the world behind the United States.

“French excellence in this area arms NATO and sows death, from Yemen to Gaza, from Ukraine to the Sahel,” they said, adding that the defence firms in the Cannes region employ thousands of engineers and technicians who “work there daily to develop these military (observation, communication, missile and drone guidance) and civilian (telecommunications, surveillance) satellites.”

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