Sasha
4th October 2012, 18:16
Anti-fascists attack nazis in the Agios Panteleimonas area of Athens, near Amerikis sq – and police attack the anti-fascist motorcycle demo in retaliation; at least twenty-three arrests and unknown number of injuries (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/09/30/police-attack-the-anti-fascist-motorcycle-demo/)
Sunday, September 30, 2012
FINAL UPDATE, 12.18 PM. A more affirmative picture of what happened in central Athens tonight: The anti-fascist demo spotted a small number of fascists (2-3) in the Agios Panteleimonas area of Athens, near Amerikis sq (close to where the Tanzanian social centre was attacked by fascists only a few days ago). Immediately after the attack, the DELTA police that were following the demo attacked it and tried to break it up; in the mayhem that followed, approximately 10 motorbikes were left behind (and eventually confiscated by police). The DELTA attacked the demo two more times, as it was heading back into Exarcheia. In total, 23 arrests are being reported from the anti-fascists’ side, while there is at least one anti-fascist seriously injured and one nazi, too.
Previous updates:
11:23 PM No sight of Nazi gathering anywhere in the center of Athens on Acharnon street or Aghios Panteleimonas Square. Just a lot of police.
10:57 PM Unconfirmed information talk about gathering of neoNazis, accompanied by the police, on Acharnon street. People are also gathered in the central Athenian squats to defend the sites, in the case the Nazis and police attack them.
UPDATE, 10.30 PM.(Breaking news) In the evening of Sunday, Sep 30th an anti-fascist demo of approx. 100-150 people spotted nazis in the area of Amerikis Square in Athens and clashed with them. Soon thereafter, at approximately 21:20, the anti-fascists were in turn attacked in retaliation by members of the DELTA motorcycle police squad — first in the neighbourhood of Amerikis Square and then on Alexandras Avenue and in Exarcheia. According to eye-witnesses in Exarcheia, when the motorcycle demo reached the neighbourhood, the DELTA arrested and injured many of its participants. Ambulances have arrived at the scene and at least six anti-fascists seem to have been detained and taken to the police HQ on Alexandras Ave. There is an unconfirmed number of injured, too.
More info as it comes.
Police in Athens courthouse attacks people gathered in solidarity to those arrested during last night’s antifascist action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/01/police-in-athens-courthouse-attacks-people-who-gathered-there-in-solidarity-to-the-arrested-of-last-nights-antifascist-action/)
Monday, October 1, 2012
On the evening of October 1st, approximately 300 people gathered in the courthouse of Athens in solidarity with the anti-fascists who had been arrested on the previous night, during the antifascist action in the Agios Panteleimonas neighbourhood of Athens. Inside the courthouse, things were calm for the largest part, until the moment when the imprisoned anti-fascists exited the building to enter the police vehicles (to be transferred back to the police HQ). At that point, the police attacked the gathering, chasing people inside the courthouse’s yard and then in the nearby streets. Approx. 20 more people were detained during the police operation. In total, 4 people were arrested and they will appear in the court on Tuesday morning.
29 people arrested the last 6 days in Athens during the general strike, antifascist & solidarity action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/02/29-people-arrested-the-last-6-days-in-athens-during-the-general-strike-antifascist-solidarity-action/)
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
During the general strike of last Wed. 9 people were arrested by the police. The names and their photographs were publicized by the police aiming to social stigmatization but also requestingfrtom people to call in the police and give “more information” about the arrested. Then on Sunday antifascists clashed with Nazis in central Athens, police came immediately to help the neo-Nazis and 15 antifascists were arrested. Then on Monday evening police attacked in Athens courthouse to the people who had gathered in solidarity to the antifascists arresting 5 more people.
A call for an assembly to discuss about the two latter occasions was called for today at 19:00 in Gini building, in Athens Polytechnic
Ministry of ‘citizen protection’ issues military-like statement in response to parliamentary questions on the arrested of the anti-fascist action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/03/ministry-of-citizen-protection-issues-military-like-statement-in-response-to-parliamentary-questions-on-the-arrested-of-the-anti-fascist-action/)
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
The statement below comes as a response to a question in parliament (by MPs of SYRIZA) regarding the arrests of anti-fascists at the anti-fa action of Sep 30 (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/09/30/police-attack-the-anti-fascist-motorcycle-demo/) and another four anti-fascists who had show up in the courthouse in solidarity (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/01/police-in-athens-courthouse-attacks-people-who-gathered-there-in-solidarity-to-the-arrested-of-last-nights-antifascist-action/).
If there was any need for proof of the totalitarian turn of the greek state regime, this document must be it.
(There is no link to the original source; it is impossible to trust a government ministry issuing a statement of this kind re. the ‘protection’ of visitors to its website. Search for “Απάντηση του Γραφείου Τύπου του Υπουργείου Δημόσιας Τάξης και Προστασίας του Πολίτη στο σχόλιο του Γραφείου Τύπου του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ-ΕΚΜ για τα τελευταία γεγονότα στον Άγιο Παντελεήμονα και στα δικαστήρια της πρώην σχολής Ευελπίδων”)
Response by the Press Office of the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection to the comment of the Press office of SYRIZA-EKM regarding the latest events in Agios Panteleimonas and at the courthouse of the ex-military school of Euelpidon
For SYRIZA, the notion of “lawfulness” obviously doesn’t exist, [since] it omits it purposefully at every one of its press statements, in which it boringly repeats the same ungrounded arguments. But it is a new low for this particular party to launch attacks for the …tolerance toward the “mafias” which act in Agios Panteleimonas — since it previously reacted and continues to react to the “Xenios Zeus” operation [the large scale police operation against undocumented migrants -- trans.] in the area, just like Golden Dawn does — in a paradoxical aligning.
For the same reason — and after it recently positioned itself (through its “[Human] Rights Committee”) against the unveiling of the names of trouble-makers and hoodlums, SYRIZA does not hesitate to align itself with everyone clashing in the streets, from one end of the political spectrum to the other. Should we remind those who know no history that this is exactly what comprises the danger for the repeat of phenomena such as that of the [fall of the] Weimar [Republic], from the extremists of the political system.
But the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection is determined to avert this particular danger for our democratic regime, with the support of the majority of the [country's] citizens.
The greek people, with the maturity that characterises them, demand the enforcement of lawfulness in every direction. And this is what we will do, ignoring those unrepentantly nostalgic of totalitarian regimes which blood-soaked humanity, or those political mentors of the bahalakides [rioters] of all kinds.
Video from the September 30th antifascist action in Athens (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/03/video-from-the-september-30th-antifascist-action-in-athens/)
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Report from the action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/09/30/police-attack-the-anti-fascist-motorcycle-demo/) and from the police attack against the people in solidarity (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/01/police-in-athens-courthouse-attacks-people-who-gathered-there-in-solidarity-to-the-arrested-of-last-nights-antifascist-action/) the following day. aGrW_ZTHPNY
A few words from the detention cells on the 7th floor of the Athens police headquarters (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/04/a-few-words-from-the-detention-cells-on-the-7th-floor-of-the-athens-police-headquarters/)
Thursday, October 4, 2012
English original (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2012/10/03/athens-third-antifascist-motorcycle-demo-clashed-with-neo-nazis-police-attacked-the-demo-in-retaliation/)
Although three days have already passed since our arrest during the antifascist motorcycle demo and flypostering (on Sunday 30/9), we think it’s good to clear up a few things even now.
After a manifest call-out on Sunday 30/9, an antifascist motorcycle demo and flypostering took place in downtown Athens, which started off from Exarchia. This demonstration came as a response to fascist pogroms and attacks against immigrants that are carried out in several areas of central Athens by fascist gangs, who are disguised as ‘committees of residents or shopkeepers’ and act with the assistance of official state gangs.
Right now, we’re not interested in analyzing or explaining here the given and hackneyed relation of Golden Dawn/Chrissi Avgi with the Greek Police.
Just after the patrol was attacked by Goldendawners(-citizens), there was an onslaught by cops of the DELTA motorcycle police unit, who followed the rear of the demo but also drove parallel alleys.
In the end 15 antifascist fighters were caught, both women and men. They were injured to various parts of their bodies, like the head, arms and legs, while cops also used taser guns (electroshock weapons).
We were brought to the 6th floor of the Athens police headquarters, in front of the department of state constitution protection, where the night was accompanied by beatings, threats, hair pulling, and burnings from the DELTA teams who took our picture for their private photo albums while keeping watch to us.
Threats such as ‘Now that we know who you are, we will bury you just like your grandparents in the Civil War’ are indicative of the terrorism that the cretin praetors of the DELTA teams tried to inflict on us. At the same time, we were not allowed to communicate with lawyers or doctors for 19 consecutive hours. The next day, after they made a transfer–show in order to take our suspect profiles, they ultimately brought us to the courts of the former Evelpidon military school.
While we still remained at the courts, anti-riot police forces attacked the gathered solidaritarians, beating up fiercely many of them. A total of 25 people were detained, and ultimately 4 arrestees were indicted. From the moment of their arrest, they were transferred onto the 6th floor of the police headquarters, where cops implemented a similar tactic of intimidation, including humiliating body searches. After an unprecedented vengeful decision, the temporary detention of the 4 arrestees was prolonged for three more days (until Friday), while the temporary detention of the 15 initial arrestees was extended until Thursday.
They brought us to the detention cells on the 7th floor of the police headquarters, in an overcrowded ward (intended for 30 people, while at the moment 80 people ‘live’ there in incredibly squalid conditions), in an attempt to ‘break our nerves’. However, we encountered a truly exceptional feeling of solidarity from people that have been ‘forgotten’ up to three months in this place.
Amidst the ‘economic crisis’ more and more people are driven to poverty and destitution, social cannibalism is being rewarded as virtue, fascism is raising its head in our localities and neighbourhoods, the State’s offensive is being intensified at all levels; amidst this period, options that promote self-organization, solidarity, comradeship and direct action are those that can not only stand in the way of fear, which they try to impose on our lives, but as the prospect of a different social organization.
You need to deeply grasp what fascism is really about.
Fascism won’t simply die on its own; you need to trash it.
Arrestees of 30/9 and 1/10
(Some among us, proud progenies of anarcho-communist brigands/symmorites.)
:ninja:
Sunday, September 30, 2012
FINAL UPDATE, 12.18 PM. A more affirmative picture of what happened in central Athens tonight: The anti-fascist demo spotted a small number of fascists (2-3) in the Agios Panteleimonas area of Athens, near Amerikis sq (close to where the Tanzanian social centre was attacked by fascists only a few days ago). Immediately after the attack, the DELTA police that were following the demo attacked it and tried to break it up; in the mayhem that followed, approximately 10 motorbikes were left behind (and eventually confiscated by police). The DELTA attacked the demo two more times, as it was heading back into Exarcheia. In total, 23 arrests are being reported from the anti-fascists’ side, while there is at least one anti-fascist seriously injured and one nazi, too.
Previous updates:
11:23 PM No sight of Nazi gathering anywhere in the center of Athens on Acharnon street or Aghios Panteleimonas Square. Just a lot of police.
10:57 PM Unconfirmed information talk about gathering of neoNazis, accompanied by the police, on Acharnon street. People are also gathered in the central Athenian squats to defend the sites, in the case the Nazis and police attack them.
UPDATE, 10.30 PM.(Breaking news) In the evening of Sunday, Sep 30th an anti-fascist demo of approx. 100-150 people spotted nazis in the area of Amerikis Square in Athens and clashed with them. Soon thereafter, at approximately 21:20, the anti-fascists were in turn attacked in retaliation by members of the DELTA motorcycle police squad — first in the neighbourhood of Amerikis Square and then on Alexandras Avenue and in Exarcheia. According to eye-witnesses in Exarcheia, when the motorcycle demo reached the neighbourhood, the DELTA arrested and injured many of its participants. Ambulances have arrived at the scene and at least six anti-fascists seem to have been detained and taken to the police HQ on Alexandras Ave. There is an unconfirmed number of injured, too.
More info as it comes.
Police in Athens courthouse attacks people gathered in solidarity to those arrested during last night’s antifascist action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/01/police-in-athens-courthouse-attacks-people-who-gathered-there-in-solidarity-to-the-arrested-of-last-nights-antifascist-action/)
Monday, October 1, 2012
On the evening of October 1st, approximately 300 people gathered in the courthouse of Athens in solidarity with the anti-fascists who had been arrested on the previous night, during the antifascist action in the Agios Panteleimonas neighbourhood of Athens. Inside the courthouse, things were calm for the largest part, until the moment when the imprisoned anti-fascists exited the building to enter the police vehicles (to be transferred back to the police HQ). At that point, the police attacked the gathering, chasing people inside the courthouse’s yard and then in the nearby streets. Approx. 20 more people were detained during the police operation. In total, 4 people were arrested and they will appear in the court on Tuesday morning.
29 people arrested the last 6 days in Athens during the general strike, antifascist & solidarity action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/02/29-people-arrested-the-last-6-days-in-athens-during-the-general-strike-antifascist-solidarity-action/)
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
During the general strike of last Wed. 9 people were arrested by the police. The names and their photographs were publicized by the police aiming to social stigmatization but also requestingfrtom people to call in the police and give “more information” about the arrested. Then on Sunday antifascists clashed with Nazis in central Athens, police came immediately to help the neo-Nazis and 15 antifascists were arrested. Then on Monday evening police attacked in Athens courthouse to the people who had gathered in solidarity to the antifascists arresting 5 more people.
A call for an assembly to discuss about the two latter occasions was called for today at 19:00 in Gini building, in Athens Polytechnic
Ministry of ‘citizen protection’ issues military-like statement in response to parliamentary questions on the arrested of the anti-fascist action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/03/ministry-of-citizen-protection-issues-military-like-statement-in-response-to-parliamentary-questions-on-the-arrested-of-the-anti-fascist-action/)
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
The statement below comes as a response to a question in parliament (by MPs of SYRIZA) regarding the arrests of anti-fascists at the anti-fa action of Sep 30 (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/09/30/police-attack-the-anti-fascist-motorcycle-demo/) and another four anti-fascists who had show up in the courthouse in solidarity (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/01/police-in-athens-courthouse-attacks-people-who-gathered-there-in-solidarity-to-the-arrested-of-last-nights-antifascist-action/).
If there was any need for proof of the totalitarian turn of the greek state regime, this document must be it.
(There is no link to the original source; it is impossible to trust a government ministry issuing a statement of this kind re. the ‘protection’ of visitors to its website. Search for “Απάντηση του Γραφείου Τύπου του Υπουργείου Δημόσιας Τάξης και Προστασίας του Πολίτη στο σχόλιο του Γραφείου Τύπου του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ-ΕΚΜ για τα τελευταία γεγονότα στον Άγιο Παντελεήμονα και στα δικαστήρια της πρώην σχολής Ευελπίδων”)
Response by the Press Office of the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection to the comment of the Press office of SYRIZA-EKM regarding the latest events in Agios Panteleimonas and at the courthouse of the ex-military school of Euelpidon
For SYRIZA, the notion of “lawfulness” obviously doesn’t exist, [since] it omits it purposefully at every one of its press statements, in which it boringly repeats the same ungrounded arguments. But it is a new low for this particular party to launch attacks for the …tolerance toward the “mafias” which act in Agios Panteleimonas — since it previously reacted and continues to react to the “Xenios Zeus” operation [the large scale police operation against undocumented migrants -- trans.] in the area, just like Golden Dawn does — in a paradoxical aligning.
For the same reason — and after it recently positioned itself (through its “[Human] Rights Committee”) against the unveiling of the names of trouble-makers and hoodlums, SYRIZA does not hesitate to align itself with everyone clashing in the streets, from one end of the political spectrum to the other. Should we remind those who know no history that this is exactly what comprises the danger for the repeat of phenomena such as that of the [fall of the] Weimar [Republic], from the extremists of the political system.
But the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection is determined to avert this particular danger for our democratic regime, with the support of the majority of the [country's] citizens.
The greek people, with the maturity that characterises them, demand the enforcement of lawfulness in every direction. And this is what we will do, ignoring those unrepentantly nostalgic of totalitarian regimes which blood-soaked humanity, or those political mentors of the bahalakides [rioters] of all kinds.
Video from the September 30th antifascist action in Athens (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/03/video-from-the-september-30th-antifascist-action-in-athens/)
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Report from the action (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/09/30/police-attack-the-anti-fascist-motorcycle-demo/) and from the police attack against the people in solidarity (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/01/police-in-athens-courthouse-attacks-people-who-gathered-there-in-solidarity-to-the-arrested-of-last-nights-antifascist-action/) the following day. aGrW_ZTHPNY
A few words from the detention cells on the 7th floor of the Athens police headquarters (http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/10/04/a-few-words-from-the-detention-cells-on-the-7th-floor-of-the-athens-police-headquarters/)
Thursday, October 4, 2012
English original (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2012/10/03/athens-third-antifascist-motorcycle-demo-clashed-with-neo-nazis-police-attacked-the-demo-in-retaliation/)
Although three days have already passed since our arrest during the antifascist motorcycle demo and flypostering (on Sunday 30/9), we think it’s good to clear up a few things even now.
After a manifest call-out on Sunday 30/9, an antifascist motorcycle demo and flypostering took place in downtown Athens, which started off from Exarchia. This demonstration came as a response to fascist pogroms and attacks against immigrants that are carried out in several areas of central Athens by fascist gangs, who are disguised as ‘committees of residents or shopkeepers’ and act with the assistance of official state gangs.
Right now, we’re not interested in analyzing or explaining here the given and hackneyed relation of Golden Dawn/Chrissi Avgi with the Greek Police.
Just after the patrol was attacked by Goldendawners(-citizens), there was an onslaught by cops of the DELTA motorcycle police unit, who followed the rear of the demo but also drove parallel alleys.
In the end 15 antifascist fighters were caught, both women and men. They were injured to various parts of their bodies, like the head, arms and legs, while cops also used taser guns (electroshock weapons).
We were brought to the 6th floor of the Athens police headquarters, in front of the department of state constitution protection, where the night was accompanied by beatings, threats, hair pulling, and burnings from the DELTA teams who took our picture for their private photo albums while keeping watch to us.
Threats such as ‘Now that we know who you are, we will bury you just like your grandparents in the Civil War’ are indicative of the terrorism that the cretin praetors of the DELTA teams tried to inflict on us. At the same time, we were not allowed to communicate with lawyers or doctors for 19 consecutive hours. The next day, after they made a transfer–show in order to take our suspect profiles, they ultimately brought us to the courts of the former Evelpidon military school.
While we still remained at the courts, anti-riot police forces attacked the gathered solidaritarians, beating up fiercely many of them. A total of 25 people were detained, and ultimately 4 arrestees were indicted. From the moment of their arrest, they were transferred onto the 6th floor of the police headquarters, where cops implemented a similar tactic of intimidation, including humiliating body searches. After an unprecedented vengeful decision, the temporary detention of the 4 arrestees was prolonged for three more days (until Friday), while the temporary detention of the 15 initial arrestees was extended until Thursday.
They brought us to the detention cells on the 7th floor of the police headquarters, in an overcrowded ward (intended for 30 people, while at the moment 80 people ‘live’ there in incredibly squalid conditions), in an attempt to ‘break our nerves’. However, we encountered a truly exceptional feeling of solidarity from people that have been ‘forgotten’ up to three months in this place.
Amidst the ‘economic crisis’ more and more people are driven to poverty and destitution, social cannibalism is being rewarded as virtue, fascism is raising its head in our localities and neighbourhoods, the State’s offensive is being intensified at all levels; amidst this period, options that promote self-organization, solidarity, comradeship and direct action are those that can not only stand in the way of fear, which they try to impose on our lives, but as the prospect of a different social organization.
You need to deeply grasp what fascism is really about.
Fascism won’t simply die on its own; you need to trash it.
Arrestees of 30/9 and 1/10
(Some among us, proud progenies of anarcho-communist brigands/symmorites.)
:ninja: