Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 18:50:33 +0200
Subject: AUT: ECD GROUP RECEIVES THREAT FROM PRESUMED MEXICAN ORIGIN


THE ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATER
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd.html
Stefan Wray (SW) sjw-AT-is8.nyu.edu, Ricardo Dominguez (RD) rdom-AT-thing.net

- For Immediate Release -

September 9, 1998, 12:35 p.m., Linz, Austria

ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE GROUP RECEIVES THREATENING PHONE CALL

On Wednesday, September 9, at 7:32 a.m., Ricardo Dominguez of the
Electronic Disturbance Theater received a threatening phone call, from
someone presumed to be Mexican, in his hotel room in Linz, Austria where
the group is participating in the Ars Electronica InfoWar Festival. Ars
Electronica organizers and the Linz police have been informed and we await
an official statement from the AEC organization regarding this incident.

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THE CALL

SW: What happened? When?

RD: This morning at 7:32 a call came into my room.

SW: Where?

RD: I picked it up in Linz, Austria. The name of the hotel is the
Steinberger Maxx. Room 610.
At 7:32 they called and they asked "Is this Ricardo Dominguez of Electronic
Civil Disobedience" and I said "Yes" And then they asked "Is Stefan Wray
with you?" and I said "No" and then they hung up. . .I thought maybe it was
a reporter. . . About two minutes later, I got a call again. I picked up
and in very clear Spanish, Mexican Spanish, they said "We know who you are.
We know where you are at. We know where your family is. We are watching
you. Do not go downstairs. Do not make your presentation. Because you know
what the situation is. This is not a game." And they hung up.




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