Communist Combatant Cells

The Cellules Communistes Combat Tantes ( CCC) ( German: Fighting Communist cells) were one in the mid-1980s in Belgium active, left terrorist group.

History and Development

They were founded in 1983, but only appeared on 2 October 1984 in public at. They were about two years running. On December 16, 1985 four members were arrested in Namur and the CCC smash it. Their actions were geared to anti-imperialist, Marxist- lenistischer theory and were directed primarily against NATO institutions, U.S. institutions and international and Belgian businesses. Two people were killed in these attacks. After their arrest, the prisoners described their detention conditions as solitary confinement.

Attacks

Condemned members

• Pierre Carette
• Bertrand Sassoye
• Pascale Vandegeerde
• Didier Chevolet

Actions in prison

• May 1986: The prisoners begin a hunger strike to protest their conditions of detention. The hunger strike was called off after 43 days, after the Ministry should have agreed to allow post and approve visits, but these promises have not been met.
• September 1988: The trial of the prisoner is imminent. Take on a new hunger strike.
• Hunger strike of 1988 is accompanied in Switzerland, Germany and Denmark with international protests. The Ministry are the demands of the prisoners to, at the time, since they are sentenced to life in prison.
• 1992 Bertrand flees Sassoye with other prisoners from the prison, but is taken back soon.
• Began in 1995 under Belgian law the possibility of parole, the competent committees play increasingly on time, in the meantime, the prisoners have spent a period of time behind bars, which otherwise applies only for recidivists in Belgium. Pascale Vandegeerde is temporarily the oldest prisoner in a Belgian prison. As a way to get free is offered to the prisoners, publicly renounce their political positions in order to speed up the parole process. This reject the prisoners.