French State imprisons Catalan anarchist ‘Robin Hood’ Enric Duran after twelve years ‘underground’.

The anarchist activist known as the Robin Hood of banks, on the run for 12 years, has been discovered and jailed in France since last June 12.

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The flimsy pretext for his imprisonment is for allegedly making exchanges between the euro and cryptocurrencies with a person who allegedly gained money from an e-commerce fraud.

Enric Duran, is famous for borrowing half a million euros in bank loans in order to donate the money to alternatives to capitalism after the Great Crash of 2008. He considers his jailing an attack by the capitalist system to “criminalize the use of cryptocurrencies”

At his trial in Barcelona the State banned his witnesses who aimed to expose the multi billion frauds of the banks themselves, So Robin (Enric) ‘did a runner’…

Enric has been imprisoned in France for more than three months and on Friday 28th Sept Friday finally testified in the courts of Nanterre, as his mother Fina Giralt explained . We hope the State will have to release him.

According to Fina, her son was arrested by the French police on June 10 in Paris, in the accommodation he had rented to sleep, and he spent two days in the police station and then was sent to prison.

Enric admitted defrauding 39 banks of 492,000 euros, but when the trial date arrived he did not appear and has lived in exile for 12 years since then.

“They must have followed him to his flat. He stopped communicating with us and the next day we learned that he had been arrested”, details Giralt, who believes that the French police “have taken advantage of the fact that he has been wanted by the Spanish justice to take him now under the false pretext of the exchange of cryptocurrencies”.

In 2008, Enric Duran became a public figure announcing that he had stolen the 492,000 euros from different banking entities, through loans that he had no intention of returning, with the aim of denouncing the capitalist and speculative financial model, and use the money “to build alternatives from social movements”.

“From 2006 to 2008, Duran took out 68 commercial and personal loans from a total of 39 banks with no guarantees or property as collateral. He had no intention of repaying the debts, and used the money to finance various anti-capitalist movements.^[3] “

He was accused of defrauding 39 banks and forgery, and spent a few months in pre-trial detention, but when the trial date arrived he did not appear and went into in hiding. Anarchist Robin Hood on Trial in Barcelona

The case against Enric was finally filed in 2023 due to the statute of limitations so the French State has jailed him on suspicion of a non crime .

Enric Duran Giralt (born 23 April 1976, in Vilanova i la Geltrú) also known as Robin Banks or the Robin Hood of the Banks is a Catalan anticapitalist activist^[1] and a founding member of the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC – Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC)¹² ³ ) and Faircoop.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} and helped to fund them and many other anti.system initiatives from the funds obtained through his “solidarity scam “,⁵ WIKI

The activist believes that the French judiciary is “criminalizing cryptocurrency transactions, a legal but unregulated activity”.

In 2008, Enric Duran generated an intense public debate when he announced that he had “stolen” the 492,000 euros from different banking entities, with a loan that he had no intention of returning with the aim of promoting a debate around the capitalist and speculative financial model and use the money for social purposes.

Apart from his notoriety as a Robin Hood Bank Robber Enric was an activist in the 15M anti capitalist Movement which began in Barcelona, swept Spain and was a precursor of the worldwide Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring and countless autonomous projects.

Enric was also a founding member of the revolutionary Catalan Integral Coop (2011- 2017) as well as the ‘anti-money’ crypto currency Freecoin linked to the FairCoop, all now closed down by rampant capitalism but with wide latent support.

“They have taken advantage of the fact that he has been wanted by the Spanish justice system to take him now under the pretext of exchanging cryptocurrencies”, denounces Fina Giralt, mother of the activist.

In 2008, Duran released both an online article entitled “I have “robbed” 492,000 euros from those who rob us the most, in order to denounce them and build alternatives for society” (translated), and later an online video, each explaining what he had done and that he had left the country

According to Fina Giralt, the user with whom Enric Duran exchanged coins would have committed fraud between June 3 and August 20, 2024, to sell products over the internet that he then did not send to buyers.

He exchanged the money he got from the sales for cryptocurrencies with several people, including the Catalan activist – the only one who has so far been arrested in the case.

According to Duran himself in a letter sent by his family to the media, he only exchanged coins between November 20 and December 13, 2023, and from March 5 to April 20, 2024, several months prior to the time period in which the e-commerce scam would have been committed.

Proposed economic system One of the priority objectives of the FairCoop was building a new global economic system based on cooperation, ethics, solidarity and justice in economic relations.^[19]

Enric Duran claims in the letter that he did not know the origin of the money, which he has tried to demonstrate by contributing to the cause the conversation he had with the user through the local Coinswap cryptocurrency buying and selling platform. “The client lied to me that he wanted to invest in bitcoin the income from his e-commerce business. The lies continued from the beginning to the end,” he underlines.

As he points out in the press release, although his lawyer, Laura Ben Kemoun, has provided a copy of the conversation, the justice “has never been interested in reading it”.

And he insists: “Without my record as the Robin Hood of the banks, I would not have spent these months in prison. With the experience of the interrogation, one might believe that the French police were more interested in finding a reason to incriminate me than in the truth.”

The activist believes that this case should be used to denounce how “French justice is criminalizing the trade of cryptocurrencies”.

He explains that these exchanges are not regulated between natural persons and micro-companies, only in the case of medium and large companies. “Even the big banks are unaware of illicit origin of the funds, therefore it is impossible for an individual person to know,” he postulates.

The Challenge of Building a Scalable Post-Capitalist Commons: The Limits of FairCoin as a Commons-Based Cryptocurrency Sam Dallyn, Fabian Frenzel First published: 19 December 2020 / PDF of Study https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12705 Citations: 8

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