Amsterdam police confisquates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request

Amsterdam police executed a mutual legal assistance request from the United States to seize a server belonging to Italian internet provider Autistici/Inventati (A/I) at a datacenter in Science Park, Amsterdam. A/I is a 25‑year‑old leftist, anticapitalist collective that offered free webhosting and e‑mail to roughly 20,000 groups worldwide. The U.S. government recently placed A/I on a sanctions list, uniquely designating it for allegedly facilitating “antifa” - a label the Trump administration treats as a terrorist designation - which cut the group off from its bank account and domain. Faced with those measures, volunteers running A/I chose to wind down the service to avoid exposing users and donors to legal risk.

Dutch police technicians created a forensic “image” of the seized drive that will be transferred to U.S. authorities; the hardware is to be returned afterwards. Volunteers say A/I had distributed servers across Europe and that many were already taken offline and wiped; the Amsterdam unit was one of the last pieces of hardware they intended to discard. Those handling the formal dissolution - constrained by Italian non‑profit rules that forbid leftover assets - claim the seized drive was encrypted and contained nothing incriminating for users, but the intervention underlines how U.S. sanctions and cross‑border legal assistance can reach smaller infrastructure providers.