ATHEN: RIOTS AND POLICE BRUTALITY

blupp 07.12.2009 16:54 Themen: Freiräume
Riots have broken out in Athens and Salonica during the first day of A. Grigoropoulos murder anniversary with police demonstrating extreme brutality leaving two people seriously wounded by a motorised charge on the Athens march.

Police brutality during the marches to comemmorate the first anniversary of Alexandros Grigoropoulos murder surpassed any limit today, in a coordinated operation of barbarity and crude violence against protesters across greece. Under socialist orders police violence has left dozens of people wounded.
In Athens the protest march called at 13:00 in Propylea was attacked by riot police forces before even starting. Protesters fought back erecting flaming barricades and forcing the police to retreat with use of rocks. Protesters also occupied the rectorial headquarters of the University of Athens in Propylea, lowering the greek flag and flying a black flag in its place. The march continued to Omonoia square where more clashes took place and several shops were destroyed -one consumed in flames. At Syntagma square motorised police forces (Delta team) charged the march from Ermou street. After the charge the Delta-team thugs dismounted and threw rocks at the protesters. As a cause of the police orgy in violence, an elderly member of the Worker’s Revolutionary Party-Trotskyist (EEK) has been reported to be in serious condition due to head injuries: Ms Koutsoumbou, a veteran prisoner of the anti-dictatorship struggle, was hit by a Delta force motorbike during the mounted charge on the crowd. According to Savas Michail, leading member of EEK and major radical philosopher, Ms Koutsoumbou is in intensive care having received far worse hits than during her tortures by the colonels' junta. One more man has been hospitalised with serious injuries. At the time 60 people are reported detained.

In Salonica the 3,000 strong protest march turned violent when riot police attacked it without any provocation with tear gas and blast grenades. Clashes ensued along the main avenue of the city. The police surrounded some 200 protesters outside the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, but were liberated by the rest of the march. The previous night the police broke the university asylum in the Salonica Polytechnic arresting 8 people who the authorities claim had attacked the International Expo with molotov cocktails. The march in Salonica has not been concluded at the time of writing and the situation is particularly tense as the protesters are returning to the main avenue to protest against police brutality.

In Larissa the protest march proceeded through the main streets of the city smashing CCTV cameras, coming under attack by riot police forces. The protesters errected barricades and engaged the cops with stones and other projectiles.

There is little information about the course of the marches in other greek cities.

At the same time, the 21 people arrested in the anarchist social centre Resalto last night have been charged under the notorious anti-terrorist law for construction and distribution of explosives (beer bottles and two bottles of heating oil).

The protest marches for the 1st anniversary of Alexandros Grigoropoulos murder by cops will continue on Monday, while at 21:00 on Sunday there will be a memorial demo at the spot of his shooting in Exarcheia.

QUELLE  http://libcom.org/news/riots-police-brutality-first-day-alexandros-grigoropoulos-murder-anniversary-06122009


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you right

asd 07.12.2009 - 17:36
here is another picure that shows the police brutality.. i choosed a wrong one..

bue thats the reaction of teh brutality of the police

this article is from 06.12.09 14:14, makes no

sense without the updates 07.12.2009 - 17:59
coming from the source.
the cop is one of the bike-cops after chasing the comrades from EEK with their motor-bikes

anderes foto aussuchen

und reinstellen? 07.12.2009 - 20:54
Das ist nur ein halbes Copy/Paste, allerdings nicht mit dem original Foto...
Das findet sich im Link zu libcom.
Es entstand nachdem die Bullen mit ihren Motorrädern in die Demo gebrettert sind. Kann punk hier auf Video sehen und sich da drunter ein Foto aussuchen:
 http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2009/12/07/147-photos-videos-from-tonight-in-athens/#comments

Beiträge die keine inhaltliche Ergänzung darstellen

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who is brutal? — censor

why are u crying now? — headshot

Athener Polizei — Anarcho

was jetzt — name

(a) — Anarchist

fake — profundus

die stimme des volkes... — direkt aus athen

Polizei-Gewalt Bild??? — eigentlich egal

very simple logic — jesus