Gr. Updates: 23/1/2010
° Clashes with fascists in Ampelokipi district of Athens. Local organisations of the district have called for a protest close to the weekly open air market to condemn the rising up fascistic presence of the last months in the area and spread information to the people. Fifteen minutes before 12:00, time of the action beginning, 30 fascists with "autonomus nationalists" placats appeared with sticks and bottles, passed among the police officers without any problem and beated up three women, one of them 50 years old with serious injuries on her head. The police officers reacted only after people from the open air market started shouting to them to arrest the fascists. The pigs took some fascists to the central police offices and set them free after some minutes.
fotos:
https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1123999
° Local organisations of Exarcheia district keep on their actions against drug dealing in the area. The last assembly took place on the square of Exarcheia, among the heroin addicted persons, who said that the cops enforced them to move in the area after the end of the cop occupation. The assembly plans daily events, as concerts and festivals, in the streets of Exarcheia and thinks of ways to keep away the cop dealers.
° "Supermarkets' Robin Hoods" action today in Chaidari district, Athens. 20 persons entered a big Supermarket, took away several basic needs' food and spreaded them around to poor people in the streets. For one more time, another "extremist left" action gets accepted from the so called common citizen.
° Alfredo Bonanno, revolutionary comrade and anarchist writer, refused today to take his insulin. Alfredo, 73 years old, is kept in prejail custody together with Christos Stratigopoulos accused for participating in an armed bank robbery. Despite that Christos Stratogopoulos has taken the responsibility of the robbery and that the doctors of Amfissa's medical center have found cancer on Alfredo's shoulder, the justice authorities still delay his request to set free because of the serious health problem. The position of the authorities is a straight action of revenge against a fighter and writer who has already influenced a lot of people.
° Clashes on Cyprus island between pupils and cops. The pupils gathered in front of the general pigs' station in memoriance of Vasilis Theakos who has lost his life after pigs used to chase him while he was driving a scooter. The pupils threw eggs, stones and fireworks against the building and the pigs responded with sound-shine granades. (we don't know yet if the granades are israelian or german ones)
° Open assembly of anarchists start organising actions in solidarity with FAU Berlin. In the beginning of Februar, a three-days assembly is already planed with the participation of many indypendent base's syndicates.
° A person from Albania hung himself in Korydallos jailhouse. He was prejailed for trying to murder and he was continuesly asking for psychological help during the last days. Another person from Albania lost his life on Kreta island while cops used to chase him. Because he did not have any papers to stay in Greece, he went on a roof-top to escape, from where he felt on the ground.
° One citizen from U.S.A. is blamed for looting the jewish synagoge and until now he is not found by the cops. Two citizens from U.K. and one citizen from Greece are accused for particapating also in the fascistic action. Before some days, U.S. State Department has published an announcment and was asking for signatures petition "to condemn the rising up antisimetism of the greek citizens".
fotos:
https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1123999 ° Local organisations of Exarcheia district keep on their actions against drug dealing in the area. The last assembly took place on the square of Exarcheia, among the heroin addicted persons, who said that the cops enforced them to move in the area after the end of the cop occupation. The assembly plans daily events, as concerts and festivals, in the streets of Exarcheia and thinks of ways to keep away the cop dealers.
° "Supermarkets' Robin Hoods" action today in Chaidari district, Athens. 20 persons entered a big Supermarket, took away several basic needs' food and spreaded them around to poor people in the streets. For one more time, another "extremist left" action gets accepted from the so called common citizen.
° Alfredo Bonanno, revolutionary comrade and anarchist writer, refused today to take his insulin. Alfredo, 73 years old, is kept in prejail custody together with Christos Stratigopoulos accused for participating in an armed bank robbery. Despite that Christos Stratogopoulos has taken the responsibility of the robbery and that the doctors of Amfissa's medical center have found cancer on Alfredo's shoulder, the justice authorities still delay his request to set free because of the serious health problem. The position of the authorities is a straight action of revenge against a fighter and writer who has already influenced a lot of people.
° Clashes on Cyprus island between pupils and cops. The pupils gathered in front of the general pigs' station in memoriance of Vasilis Theakos who has lost his life after pigs used to chase him while he was driving a scooter. The pupils threw eggs, stones and fireworks against the building and the pigs responded with sound-shine granades. (we don't know yet if the granades are israelian or german ones)
° Open assembly of anarchists start organising actions in solidarity with FAU Berlin. In the beginning of Februar, a three-days assembly is already planed with the participation of many indypendent base's syndicates.
° A person from Albania hung himself in Korydallos jailhouse. He was prejailed for trying to murder and he was continuesly asking for psychological help during the last days. Another person from Albania lost his life on Kreta island while cops used to chase him. Because he did not have any papers to stay in Greece, he went on a roof-top to escape, from where he felt on the ground.
° One citizen from U.S.A. is blamed for looting the jewish synagoge and until now he is not found by the cops. Two citizens from U.K. and one citizen from Greece are accused for particapating also in the fascistic action. Before some days, U.S. State Department has published an announcment and was asking for signatures petition "to condemn the rising up antisimetism of the greek citizens".
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A local antiracist demo in Ampelokipoi, Athens, came under attack by fascist thugs, leading to the hospitalisation of one woman. More than 40 fascists have been detained. The attack marks a climax of fascist violence which has also led to the torching of Chania's Synagogue.
On Saturday 23 January an anti-racist demo of the Cultural Centre of Ambelokipoi in Athens was fiercely attacked by a fascist group of so-called “autonomous nationalists”. The demo was organised as a response to continuing disturbance of the functioning of the 50 year old Centre by fascist thugs who tried to burn it down last week. Before the official start-time of the demo, at 12, when only the organisers were in Panormou square, 40 fascist thugs attacked them with sticks leading to the wounding of three people, amongst which a 50 year old woman who has been hospitalised. During the attack riot police forces stationed in the square stood by watching, even moving aside to let the fascists strike. Nevertheless, the demostrators managed to counterattack chasing the fascists, despite police efforts to stop them.
Thr police finally intervened only after it became known that an MP was also amongst the people attacked. The police intervention has led to 44 detentions of fascists, who are being interrogated at the police headquarters.
The attack comes in a climax of similar moves that have been growing ever since the government announced a law that will legalise hundreds of thousands of second generation immigrants giving them the right to vote. The extreme-right has launched a campaign of hate in order to halt the procedure.
Ambelokipoi, the area where the attack took place, has a long record of fascist action, with leafleting at schools of the area coming under frequent attacks, once even at gun-point. This does not however mean that the neighbourhood is fascist as such. In fact, after the 50 year old woman was taken to the near by Red Cross Hospital, doctors and nurses came down to the street to join the demo in protest to the fascist violence. The demo formed a protest march towards the Athens police HQ which is also in the area.
The Coalition of Radical Left MP who participated in the demo has declared that “For one more time fascists are acting in the open with the toleration of the police against any kind of protest against racism and xenophobia. This terrorism will not pass. Fascism will not take root in this country”. The Left wing labour union umbrella “Autonomous Intervention” denounced the “Uncontrollable activity of neofascist groups which are provoking the democratic and anti-fascist sentiments of the people”.
It must be noted that recently Spartakos, the 30 year old “Network of Free Conscripts”, revealed that the Ministry of National Defense has been organising paramilitary training camps in Chalkdiki, where ex-soldiers and other militaristic elements have been trained in “counterterrorist” operations. After the revelations, Spartacus has come under the spotlight of the fascist parliamentary party LAOS, which has demanded from the Ministry the containment of the group. Spartakos has denounced efforts of detaining its members during leafleting, and has further revealed that a secret General Stuff document describing in detail the Network’s totally legal day-to-day activities has come to the Network’s possession.
Moreover, the escalation of fascist violence has inculded the torching of the Chania Synagogue which destroyed thousands of rare manuscripts and books. Regarding the torching (twice in one month), the police has arrested 1 greek and 2 british citizens as part of the anti-Semitic group that perpetrated the attack. The greek has confessed, while the british are denying any involvement in the act; 2 US citizens are also wanted for the same case. However, the police is refusing to follow the link to the torching of the Immigrant Social Centre of the city which occurred within the same time. Swastikas were found painted in the torched Immigrant Centre, while a slate of soap believed to be the group’s signature was found in the torched Synagogue.
The arrests come as a rare incident in a country where fascist action is tolerated by the state to the degree that it is often believed that fascist groups are in fact parastate terror organisations, similar to the ones kept by the state until the end of the junta.
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