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Comrades Dimitra Zarafeta and Marianna Manoura Sentenced in Ampelokipi Case Hearing

Updates from the 12th – final – hearing of the Ampelokipi case 24/4/26

Dimitris P., Nikos Romanos and A.K. – Innocent due to doubt

Comrades Dimitra Zarafeta and Marianna Manoura – Guilty

Dimitra was convicted for her stance in court, for not renouncing her ideology, and for developing her thoughts without weighing up whether this would work against her. The court must be based on objective criteria, not ideology, and based on this, conversion should be evaluated.

For Marianna, the court did not accept the mitigating circumstances.

For Dimitra, the majority only accepted the paragraph concerning good conduct after the act was committed, that is, inside prison.

Marianna M. and Dimitra Z. were convicted of the following acts: criminal organization; aggravated manufacture of explosive devices; possession of explosive materials, explosive devices, pistols and ammunition; supply and possession of explosive materials; explosion using explosive materials; damage to another’s property.

Total penalties…

19 years for comrade Marianna

8 years for comrade Dimitra

THE ONLY TERRORIST IS THE STATE

FIRE TO THE PRISONS

Athens: (Greece) Updates from the 12th – final – hearing of the Ampelokipi case [decision day]

Ampelokipi Case – Statement of Anarchist Comrade Nikos Romanos (Athens, Greece)

Ampelokipi Case – 8th Trial – 17/04/2026

Nikos Romanos: I am here after almost 18 months of arbitrary and vindictive detention. I also want to contribute to the restoration of the truth with my statement. In general, I believe that the only reason I am here is my past. And I will explain later why I say this.

First of all, let me repeat here, as I have said from the beginning, that I have nothing to do with this specific case. I have not committed any of the offenses attributed to me and I believe that this entire story, this entire path that has led me here, is the result of a revenge that has brought me to this objectively unfavourable position.

Before we get to how I ended up here, let me tell you that since my release in 2019 I have had an active social and political life. As for my social life, I will not describe it to you because the witnesses have described it and I do not want to repeat things. I want to say more things that have not been heard.

I would like to talk to you about the difficulties that have to do with the adaptation of a person who is released from prison after 7 years. Difficulties that have to do with the obligations – at least as I perceived them – towards my family environment, which has supported me from the first moment of my arrest until today. Some other formal obligations that I tried to fulfil in many ways. And schematically, what should be captured here as an experience is the image of a person who has just been released from prison.

Prison is the land of frozen time. There is a rudimentary social life. Outside, everyone moves forward, relationships develop, everyone makes their choices, people change, mutate, all the things that happen happen. And, when it is a long-term confinement, when you come out, you essentially come out of a refrigerator. You try to come face to face with material reality. A reality which has changed since the last time you remember it, possibly rapidly. You are called to be able to cope with this, to try to lift weights, something that you had not done in all the previous years. Because, in a way, in the previous years, others lifted the weights for you. So, I want to present them in a way that draws on personal experience. So that it can also be understood by you.

I tried, anyway, to adapt to this reality. To get back in touch with the people I had left behind. For example, high school seniors, some of my friends. I had had very little contact with these people until then, i.e. we would say a “happy new year”, a “happy birthday”. All of this was a difficult and arduous process. I tried to find a job, and I found a job. I tried to build some social relationships, which created joy and pleasure for me, with my family, my partner and with my other friends. Essentially, I started to make some plans for my life, some plans. This is a schematic description of my social life.

At the same time, I obviously had a political life, a public political life. I participated in cultural and all kinds of other events. I participated in demonstrations, obviously. I participated in demonstrations for issues that raised awareness, for prisoners’ rights, in events with the bar association, for criminal codes. We have coexisted with several lawyers in such events, whether they are from the anarchist space or from the left. We have been in such places.

Again, to record this specific experience, I want to say that for me the most important moment in my political life, the most important thing I did from my release until today, was the restoration of the monument of Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the event that was held in connection with it. I believe that, in a way, an attempt was made to restore a monument that was in decay. And to give some meanings, some narratives, some testimonies so that the memory of the people who lost their lives in the way they did could be “conveyed”.

So, these are schematically the social and political life I’ve had from 2019 onwards.

This was violently interrupted with my arrest outside my parents’ house, in Papanastasiou Street. Essentially, I experience it as a déjà vu, because I have gone through all these stages. It was like a trauma that reopens and repeats itself. Quite a bad experience. Unfortunately, I have had the misfortune to go through these processes many times. After a while, when I understood what was happening, I had exactly in my head what was going to happen. That is, that I would be treated like a prize, there would be the channels, and that would be the framework. I would be sold as a product of political marketing. All these things, which unfortunately you cannot avoid. I was aware that they would happen from the moment I understood what was being attributed to me, because at first I did not understand.

And the most important thing about this is that I actually experienced, and I’m here with all that has happened, for a choice that I didn’t make. On the contrary, in the past, for the choices I had made, I always took responsibility. I defended them. And I didn’t just defend them to a friend. I defended them publicly, I defended them in courtrooms like this one. I stood before my real judges and explained in detail what the history is, what the social context is within which I made certain choices. Choices that are a part of my existence, no one denies that.

As well as, I have been in courts where I have been accused of things I have not done. And these, the truth is that there were not a few – if I am asked I can list them for you. With elements that were without criminal significance, where they were part of a broader context of that period. In these courts, the reason I continued and went and said “I have nothing to do with it”, was not because I sought better criminal treatment – ​​because my criminal treatment was horrible anyway. I simply sought the restoration of the truth. Everyone will face the consequences of their choices, for what they have made. Not for what they have not done.

So, right now I’m in a Kafkaesque situation, that’s how I characterize it. It centres on a tragic incident, where a man, the anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris, lost his life, his partner, Marianna Manoura, was seriously injured, and a load of people have had problems in their daily lives. A truly tragic incident.

A tragic incident that has been politically instrumentalized from the very beginning, and I consider my own case to be the icing on the cake of this instrumentalization. This instrumentalization has stages: it started from point zero and reached the final point, within which various incidents developed: media, police, etc. Essentially, what I wonder, and I am expressing it here publicly, is how much discussion can there be about a bag?

I repeat again, for things that I have done, I have no problem taking responsibility for my choices, defending them, exposing them, formulating the context in which they were made and facing the consequences of the law on the part of the state. In this case, however, I have not made any choice, I have not done anything. And I find myself here, essentially, having to prove that I am not an elephant. Within a context that says “there is a bag”. And then a criminalization of the bag begins which says “this bag had 2 fingerprints”. “No, after all, it did not have 2, it had 102 fingerprints”. “Yes, but it was “this way”” or “it was different”. The persecutory – let each one put a characterization – narratives are constantly changing. And I am in a position where I have an unchanging, fixed view from the beginning: I say that no matter what happens, I cannot know when I came into contact with a bag. If I said that I remember, it would be hypocritical. It would be hypocritical to say, “Yes, I remember this bag.” No matter what questions are asked, I cannot know. No matter how much I think about it, all I can do is speculate. And because you talked about probability theory, probabilities remain probabilities. One can only speculate, only scenarios, only versions. To answer and say when I came into contact with a bag is something that I am unable to do.

Concluding this brief apology of mine – because I believe that I have nothing more to contribute to the case – I want to reiterate that I am not in a position to know the path of the bag. All I can do is make assumptions. I believe that no matter how many assumptions I make, I do not come to a conclusion that I can be certain of. To repeat what I said before, I have nothing to do with the case. I have paid more than enough for the choices I made. At this moment I am being asked to pay for something that I did not make and I believe that this is unfair.

I would consider it more honest – although “honest” is a big word, I would consider it better, if someone told me “you know what, you’re going to jail because we don’t like you, because we don’t like you, because we think you’re a person who should pay for certain things”. I consider that more honest and, in part, it’s also defensible. To know that I’m in jail because I know that certain circles don’t like me. To be in jail and the argument being a bag, from my point of view, is incomprehensible.

Thank you for your time.

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Translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Incendiary Attack on Vasilis Kapernaros’ Law Office – Direct Action Cells

The Direct Action Cells claim responsibility for the incendiary attack on the office of far-right lawyer and failed politician Vasilis Kapernaros in the Kypseli neighborhood in the early hours of April 2. Just as we did the last time we attacked a collaborator in the crimes of Tempi (the Vozenberg residence, February 2025), so now we name the cell that carried out the attack after the armed urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymiteris. We call upon all fighting revolutionary forces. Every comrade who devises subversive plans and puts them into action through dynamic acts, to take up the torch and honor the memory of our comrade as he deserves. To set fire to the quiet nights of the metropolis. To take the risks that are necessary so that we can show through our actions that there is no better way to remember and honour our dead than by intensifying the war against the rot of the system and its dominant culture.

The reason for our group’s attack on the office of that wretched individual known as Kapernaros is his active involvement in covering up the crime at Tempi, as he is the lawyer for Interstar Security, the company responsible for security and video surveillance of the railway network. The company that concealed for years the videos of the trains that collided that day and, along with other parties, contributed to the concealment of critical evidence regarding the crime. At this moment, the company’s legal representative and two ΟΣΕ executives are on trial for failing to hand over the videos of the freight train being loaded at the station in Thessaloniki. In this courtroom, as relatives of the victims report, Kapernaros bursts in with an escort, taunts and bullies people, culminating in a vile attack on former hunger striker Panos Routsis.

To put it more plainly, we’re dealing with a servile lackey. A few months ago, and “coincidentally” immediately after Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s interview—in which he wondered if there were any videos from the tunnels showing the freight train —the eager scoundrel appeared, donning the guise of a saviour lawyer, with three “forgotten” videos, which he even shared with an old acquaintance of ours, Aris Portosalte. He therefore chose to bear the burden of responsibility for distorting the facts and burying the truth of the Tempi crime, placing himself in the spotlight of public criticism—as such megalomaniacal figures always desire. The criticism we have consistently chosen is that of fire and revolutionary praxis.

Kapernaros, the son of a cop, grew up in post-Civil War Greece in an environment that can be summed up by the slogan “Fatherland – Religion – Family.” He, too, is just another two-bit patriot like those who donned hoods and betrayed resistance fighters to the occupiers, later fighting them in the mountains at the behest of their new masters as “bandits.” Like those who, exploiting the people’s hunger and hardships, amassed fortunes like black marketeers. All these vermin presented themselves to the post-civil war state as good Christians and patriots, while they were the greatest scum in the history of this land.

Today, all of them—like Kapernaros—are peddling the same old lies, obscuring their sordid role. He plays the part of a good Christian and, above all, a patriot, while at the same time playing an active role in covering up the crime at Tempi. Ten years ago, he was supposedly selling an anti-memorandum, while behind the scenes he was setting up the serious Golden Dawn as another reserve force for the system to prevent the rise of the left and, even more so, to prevent it from shifting toward more radical directions. He naturally also participated in the Golden Dawn trial as the lawyer for MP Nikos Kouzilos, while simultaneously setting up various factions of the right-wing political spectrum, such as the Radical National Alarm and the Patriotic Radical Union, with various “serious” Golden Dawn MPs like Synadinos, Koukoutsis, and Sveroni. At the same time, his relationship with the former secretary-general of the Samaras government, Takis Baltakos, is well known. Baltakos was not merely the government’s liaison with Golden Dawn; he was the key proponent of the “serious” Golden Dawn scenario mentioned above, which would operate based on the historical role of fascists. As a crutch for the system in times of crisis and destabilisation.

Of course, as a good right-winger, a Christian and a patriot who respects himself, he was involved in a 5-million-euro tax evasion scandal in 2013, while serving as a civil attorney in the Lingeridis trial, representing the family of the deceased butcher. It’s practically a tradition in this country for all these crooks from the right-wing establishment to maintain ties with law enforcement and siphon off public funds. In almost all the financial scandals, big or small, that come to light from time to time—especially over the last 15 years—one observes a common pattern. If not all, then most of them belong to the political right. They spout plenty of patriotic rhetoric, have good connections with official institutions, and point the finger at anyone who resists putting the brakes on this downward spiral. All of this serves as a cover for lining their own pockets with public funds, without, of course, any of them ever being punished by the non-existent justice system.

We noted years ago, when we visited the homes of certain high-ranking members of the judicial mafia, that the civil justice system does not address the problem. It is the problem itself. One does not need to be an anarchist to understand this point. With each passing day, it becomes even clearer to anyone concerned how this system operates. It dons the cloak of the Dragon when dealing with political opponents of the system, but also with vulnerable people who lack political backing. It violates the “presumption of innocence,” tramples even on civil laws themselves, piles them up in prisons, and robs them of their very lives with great ease. In all these cases, the harsh and “uncompromising” judges push the limits of the law and bury people for years in the labor camps we now call detention centers. On the other hand, the same judges become sensitive and compassionate when their own children are accused. That is why, if you look inside prisons, you will find only a handful of all those criminals who, in reality, are the only ones terrorising society.

Two high-profile political trials are currently underway, cases that reflect all the double standards governing not only the civil justice system and the police, but the civil system itself. We are referring, on the one hand, to the trial for the crime in Tempi and, on the other, to the trial of our comrades in the Ampelokipi case. This is a diabolical coincidence, as we believe that a comparison of the two cases convinces even the most naive observer of just how methodically and dirty police investigations and judicial inquiries operate in this country. As we mentioned above, how harsh, repressive, and sweeping state mechanisms are in one case, while at the same time how slow, “careless,” and “lenient” they become when it comes to cleaning up the mess left by their political superiors in the other.

The glaring contradictions of the judicial mafia, of course, come as no surprise to us. They elicit a bitter smile of confirmation of the obvious, but the horror and brutality of the power that certain modern-day inquisitors can wield against the lives and freedom of other people cannot be dismissed as ordinary or normal. Anyone who expects the accomplices and lackeys of murderers to deliver justice is doomed to live in darkness and with their eyes cast down. Anyone who allows a comrade from the Ampelokipi case to be condemned bloodlessly and without cost should expect the passage of time to drag them into a life devoid of purpose and direction, for that is the only way to describe the acceptance of defeat. Arkadias Street on 31st October 2024 was marked by an explosion of choices, by the stride of a man, a sure and steady step toward a head-on collision. A critical moment, a moment of choices, lies before us today. We will not issue threats against those who hold the fate of the freedom of our comrades on trial in their hands. Whether they prove hollow, or the actions and events that will unfold will be irrevocably etched into Time. We remind only those who still hold the spark within them for revenge and revolution, for a world for people and not a world without humanity, of the selfless example and the life chosen by those who turned that spark into an explosion. Kyriakos, Christos, Lambros, Christoforos. Their struggles and their calls for an escalation of the war. The time has come for conscious and critical choices for everyone. Because in the face of the kingdom of defeatism and assimilation, we will choose Imagination, Optimism, and Risk.

STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY WITH MARIANNA MANOURA, DIMITRA ZARAFETA, DIMITRIS P., NIKOS ROMANOS, AND ARGYRI K.

THE ARMED REVOLUTIONARY KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US

REVOLUTIONARY MEMORY FOR ALESSANDRO MARCOGLIANO AND SARA ARDIZZONE

VICTORY IN THE HUNGER STRIKE OF ARISTOTELIS HANTZIS AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE REFUGEE COMMUNITY

Direct Action Cells

Kyriakos Xymiteris Cell

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on Vasilis Kapernaros’ law office – Direct Action Cells

Statements by Comrades Marianna Manoura and Dimitra Zarafeta on Day 2 of the Trial (Athens, Greece)

Marianna Manoura

I would like to state to the residents of the apartment building that the explosion was not due to an organized plan. It resulted in the death of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, and my own serious injury. We never wanted general people to suffer, nor to cause damage to people whilst social conditions are already very serious. When our political space wants to attack it evaluates, and the logic of collateral damage is in no way consistent with its values. We use our means against the system alone.

I thank the two people who helped me immediately after the explosion.

The explosion has been exploited by the state from the very beginning.

I will never claim that it was a conspiracy. I take political responsibility for the actions, but I will not waste a single minute of my freedom for things I did not do.

My comprade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, lost his life for a better world.

His death has been instrumentalized and vilified through the imputation of the explosion, an accusation by the counter-terrorism that Kyriakos was aware of what would follow.

Kyriakos, as a political subject, loved life; not only his own, but also that of others. As a human being, it is impossible that he would want to burden general people with damage to their homes.

I am not accountable to any court, I am only accountable to my comrades.

It is in your hands how this trial will be conducted, whether you will follow the orders of counterterrorism, or whether you will judge based on the actual facts.

I can take political responsibility for what is my responsibility.

I dedicate every minute of this trial to the memory of Kyriakos.

Kyriakos was a wonderful man and a sensitive revolutionary.

10/31 is a breaking point for me, both for the moral burden of the damage to the apartment building and for the loss. I will preserve it to preserve the memory of Kyriakos, his choices, and my place within them.

Dimitra Zarafeta

I deny all the charges.

I wish to pay tribute to the memory of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Political action, friendships and political relationships are being criminalized.

The deprivation of my liberty is the responsibility of the court, which allows such cases to be filed.

I apologize to the family who own the apartment, as, unknowingly, I put them in an unpleasant position due both to the damage and to the involvement with the repressive mechanism.

Statements from the two comrades Marianna Manoura and Dimitra Zarafeta in the 2 day of the trial. (Athens,Greece)

Claim of Responsibility for Arson Attack on a Cop’s House

by Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

• In March, no one dies (March 2010, Daphne – Lambros Fountas, an anarchist guerrilla who fell in a clash with cops) – (March 2026, outskirts of Rome – Sara Ardizone and Sandro Mercoliano, anarchist comrades who were killed by an explosion)
• In October, no one dies (October 2024, Ampelokipi, Athens – Kyriakos Xymitiris, anarchist guerrilla killed by explosion)
• In May, no one dies (May 2025, Thessaloniki – Snizanna Paraskevaidou, fell in an explosion during an attack on a bank)

And the story continues like this. Through the battles of our own people, ordinary, everyday. Like Lambros, like Kyriakos, like Snizanna, like Sandro and Sara and so many more people who lost their lives in direct action.

With determination, with our own rage and memory, we took to the streets at dawn on March 10, the date that the anarchist revolutionary guerrilla Lambros Fountas fell fighting under fire from cops in Daphne 16 years ago and we attacked a cop’s house in Kaisariani with an incendiary device.

We have every reason to target the state’s cadres who act as security guards for the bosses and the ruling elite. With this move, we want to remind them and all the cops that we will not leave their activities unpunished. They are the ones who target activists, violently attack demonstrators, torture and murder people in the departments, at the borders, as well as people from the impoverished margins and our class. Let them remember and know that we can also locate them in their homes, in their neighborhoods, in their jobs and that they are not truly safe anywhere by making this choice to serve the system.

It is a fact that the state invests in order and security by strengthening policing at every level of central government. In this way, it prevents as much as possible any resistance from below on behalf of capital while at the same time strengthening military-police capital through funds for security forces and armament programs. This is a parallel phenomenon in relation to the international geopolitical situation. As the war intensifies abroad (Middle East, Ukraine) and the Greek state participates in it through the Greek-Israeli-American alliance, NATO and the EU, so does the repression at home. Cops of all kinds are positioned to manage our lives. The same applies to every field of public space from universities to neighborhoods, squares and natural places (see Exarchia Square, Strefi Hill).

Let fear change camp then. No matter how much the complicit and regime-based mass deception media cover you up by hiding our actions, we know the anxiety that these visits to your homes cause you. If you do not gather, we will come again. Our lives are not expendable. We want to show that you are the terrorists and dangerous to the public interest, not us who return the minimum percentage of violence that is yours.

We express our solidarity with the Palestinian people who are fighting. Let us intensify the anti-war action against the war crimes that are occurring in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran by the Western bloc. We will not become meat for the murderers’ cannons because the local leaders, with Mitsotakis and Dendias as the first and best, rushed to ally with Netanyahu and Trump.

The choice to connect these contents through action on the day of remembrance of the anarchist guerrilla Lambros Fountas constitutes a connecting link between memory, action and continuity.

STRENGTH TO ALL PALESTINIAN MILITANTS DETAINED BY THE ISRAELI NATIONALIST (ZIONIST) REGIME AND THREATENED WITH THE DEATH PENALTY

FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE COMRADES PERSECUTED FOR THE CASE OF AMPELOKIPI

Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640602/

Arson Attack on the Home of the Snitch Dean of NTUA and a Riot Police Officer

National Gendarmerie of Athens

In the early hours of March 25, we attacked with an incendiary device the building where the dean of the NTUA, Panagiotis Tsanakas, as well as a riot police officer, live in the area of Zografou. Our research on the chief snitch of the academic rabble of the Polytechnic brought us in front of a simultaneously special but poetically explainable coincidence. A snitch and a cop work and live together, a touching image to say the least.

Tsanakas is not simply the tsuchiki [contemptuous address for a person we consider vile and insignificant] of Hadjigeorgiou (rector of NTUA) but as the culmination of his “academic” work he has shamelessly handed over to the police a student who was writing slogans in favor of the Palestinian people on the school grounds. However, he has a deeper and more essential role in Hadjigeorgiou’s police-held monstrosity, of a rectory that allows/imposes the daily presence and the scolding of cops on campus in full compliance and obedience to the dictates of the ND doctrine for absolute control and essentially the necrosis of student and subversive struggles on university campuses. A rectorate that we have lost count of how many times has ordered the invasion of the repressive forces on the university grounds, with a particular “sensitivity” when it comes to those in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people.

Of course, Hadjigeorgiou has an additional reason to fervently desire the presence of cops on the NTUA grounds beyond serving the government’s planning. He uses them as doormen and henchmen who guard the “shop” that he has built in future collaborations on NATO programs and Jewish arms industries. Just the day after the attack, we read that a way has been found through opaque procedures and individual opinions of legal advisors to declare unconstitutional (!) Article 2 of the Funding and Management Guide of the Special Research Funds Account (ELKE), which concerns the NTUA and explicitly states “…The history of the NTUA is connected to struggles for freedom and peace. For this reason, the NTUA is not allowed to conduct or participate in research for war purposes of any kind, with the exception of research for the country’s defense needs, and no research funded by international military coalitions is undertaken.” Let us recall that the above constitutes a conquest of the anti-war movement of the era of the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO forces in 1999. Of course, as early as October 2023, in the midst of the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza by the Israeli army, with the signatures of Hadjigeorgiou and Dean Panagiotis Tsanakas, a memorandum of cooperation between the NTUA and Intracom Telecom was signed. It is therefore obvious (unless you are a lobotomist) that the results of the university’s research in this collaboration are channeled to 2 subsidiaries of Intracom Telecom, Intracom Defense and Intracom Aviator, which actively cooperate with the Israeli army and its genocidal activities in the wider Middle East.

It is therefore clear that beyond being a miserable snitch, Tsanakas is, with actions – such as the above – an active supporter of the genocide of the peoples of the Middle East and as such must be treated by radical forces. The arson attack on the house was simply a warning. We know his daily life well and depending on his future actions he will be targeted appropriately.

The other tenant of the building practices the miserable profession of a riot policeman. The descendant of Pantelis Petrou and Ioannis Georgakopoulos symbolizes for us the murderous attacks of the repressive forces on the marches of the radical student movement, the serious injuries of comrades in the memorial march for the armed revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris and that of December 6th, the long arm of the state that supposedly will crush without reprisal. We want to welcome every upgraded action against every riot police crackdown that has taken place recently. We will leave the many words aside and give space to the action and if this can clarify that this “long arm” will literally begin to crush, then well and good. Let him inform his colleagues for the time being that the homes of some of them are in our hands, as well as those of other fighting organizations, and their targeting will take place depending on the intensity of the repressive attack we are receiving.

We dedicate our energy to the Italian anarchist comrades Alessandro Marcogliano and Sara Ardizzone, who lost their lives after an improvised explosive device exploded. To honor their memory, we named the cell that carried out the attack after their names. Sara, Alessandro, Kyriakos and hundreds of other freedom fighters are a heavy reminder to all of us. To those who speak of a dynamic struggle against the cannibalistic system that destroys our lives. An exhortation for each and every one of us to take a small step further. To increase our risks and commitments. To steel our stubbornness and arm ourselves. To honor the memory and choices of our fallen comrades by multiplying the centers of dynamic resistance. In an era when it is necessary to fight with all our being, so that we can be there at the rendezvous for the confrontation with history and those who keep our lives in suffocating jars. To crush those who hold the whip, to shatter the phobic culture of the willing, to not turn into a museum exhibit and a fairy tale to lull our lost revolutionary dreams. The disappointment, the whining and the “politics” of bars and cafes must give way to the reborn propaganda of conspiratorial acts.

WE DEDICATE OUR ATTACK TO THE FIGHTING PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST WHO ARE FIGHTING THE MONSTER OF IMPERIALISM WITH A GUN IN THEIR HANDS

SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMRADES OF THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

ALESSANDRO MERCOGLIANO, SARA ARDIZZONE, KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT IN OUR STRUGGLES

LET FEAR CHANGE CAMP

Direct Action Cells

Cell Alessandro Mercogliano/Sara Ardizzone

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640506/

If We Are Afraid Today, We Will Be Afraid Tomorrow and Forever – Dimitra Zarafeta

It took 512 days for the authorities to finally decide that it was time to put our case, the case of Ampelokipi, to be tried. Just one breath before the end of the 18-month period. Not because the investigative process was truly endless, nor because new evidence was constantly emerging in the meantime. From the very first moment, the facts were more or less the same. However, the choice to set the trial at the last minute was neither accidental nor procedural. It was a purely political choice, a conscious method so that the process would run on a fast track and the desired decision would be produced, with the same speed. Nevertheless, in this last text of mine before the trial, I will not dwell in detail on the practices and methods that the judicial authorities employ against us. These are already known to anyone who wants to see them. My purpose is to restore things to their true dimension, against the fabricated version that the anti-terrorist and then the investigating and prosecutors tried to impose initially. That is why I want and must talk about what has already happened and what is to follow.

In two days I will be in this court, because a year and a half ago I lent the keys to an apartment to my friends and comrades, Kyriakos and Marianna, so that they could host acquaintances.

I will be in this court accused of terrorism, with charges of membership and participation in an unknown organization, with an unknown structure, unknown roles, unknown duration, as well as for manufacturing, supplying and possessing explosives and weapons. An indictment that was drawn up overnight, based on flimsy evidence, which 2 months ago the court began to collapse with the removal of charges of this explosion and deterioration.

Or, to be more precise, the only “evidence” that the anti-terrorism department relied on to construct this indictment was the criminalization of everyday acts, the criminalization of political opinion and the criminalization of friendly and comradely relationships.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Thus, our case not only has a past that already counts a year and a half, but also a future. A future inextricably linked to the struggle.

That is why, in two days, I will be in this court to give my own struggle, defending my anarchist identity, the radical revolutionary struggle, my relations with my friends and comrades, and above all the memory of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris.

I will be in this court to fight to the end for my freedom — a freedom that I do not grant them, not even for one more day than the 512 that they have already deprived me of. And if institutional cover is given to the anti-terrorist police to fabricate indictments in this way, then the responsibility for whether I am convicted of an indictment that I deny, falls on the current composition of the bench.

This also concerns all those who feel that behind bars are not only the prisoners, but also a part of themselves. Those who remain present and present in every field of the radical struggle. Because it is also in their hands to erect a mound, to not allow injustice to become law.

Nevertheless, in two days I will find myself in this court, which has a weight much greater than that of indictments and legal characterizations. Because within this process there is also a loss. There is the memory of our friend and comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, a memory that does not fit into any case file. For this very reason, this court has an importance that goes beyond the limits of a formal trial. That is why more is at stake around this process than meets the eye. Because in these halls I will not only defend myself, but also Kyriakos himself. I will speak about my friend and comrade on my own terms, not with the language of power, nor through the filters of the case file, but through the life he lived, the struggles he gave and what he chose to defend with all his heart, dedicating his life to it. With his absence, it is at the same time a deep, intense presence; because there are people like Kyriakos who, even when they are gone, continue to light the way and show with their very lives why it is worth standing up.

So my friend and comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris will be there in the knot in my neck, in the strength I find not to bend, in the need to keep alive everything we shared and everything he defended. He will be with me, next to me, like a hand on my shoulder, like a breath that reminds me that nothing is over and that the struggle continues.

Kyriakos Xymitiris Present
Honor for Ever to Anarchist Comrade Sarah Ardizone and Anarchist Comrade Alessandro Mercoliano

Dimitra Zarafeta

Korydallos Women’s Prison

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640443/

I Defend, I Don’t Apologize – Marianna Manoura

In the midst of revelations of all kinds of government scandals and the participation of the Greek state in the war unleashed by the US and Israel against Iran, the repressive mechanism decided to deal with the “internal enemy”. Three weeks before the first hearing, we were notified of the start of our trial. On April 1 and one month before the end of the 18-month period, the process begins. A process based on an obviously inflated indictment where it is obvious that four of the five defendants have nothing to do with or knew about what was going to happen on 31/10. The court’s focus, however, is not exclusively to highlight the otherwise well-used tactics of the anti-terrorist unit, but to defend the memory of the revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris and the armed means of resistance he decided to adopt against this cannibalistic system.

From the very beginning, the prosecuting authorities with the counter-terrorism at the helm saw this specific case as an ideal event to open yet another fan of persecutions and imprisonments of people. The apparent inability of the anti-terrorism police to establish even a pretextually credible indictment held us all hostage, with requests to terminate the temporary detention being rejected in all the interim judicial councils (six months and twelve months) with flimsy justifications. The case was thus kept open, in the absence of any new evidence to justify it, with the councils’ dismissive reasoning self-refuting at points, trying to find a new narrative in order to exhaust the limit of pre-trial detention for all the defendants, thus attempting to satisfy two goals: on the one hand, the consolidation of state vindictiveness and on the other hand, the maintenance of the narrative of a terrorist organization. An organization without a name, without a history, without action, without even a substance, the invention of which serves on the one hand spectacular-communicational reasons, but also a serious upgrade of the indictment that carries the risk of lethal penalties.

The result of this pretentious delay in closing the case for 17 months, was the delay in issuing and final deliberations, with the result that the trial is now approaching the typical time limit for the end of detention for all the detainees in the case. A fact that in itself causes a rush in its definition and conduct, with the service of its summons to take place on 09/03, just 3 weeks before its start on April 1, suffocatingly pressing our preparation time. I am therefore called, on April 1st, to stand trial accused of forming and joining a terrorist organization, aggravated manufacture of explosive devices and possession of explosive materials and explosive devices, pistols and ammunition, explosion with possible intent, aggravated damage and illegal possession of weapons, in a trial that has shown signs of haste and carelessness from the beginning. The situation that is taking shape may not surprise me. I am very well aware of the role of civil justice within this specific system of exploitation, which while pretending to play its role within a “rule of law”, is in reality primarily interested in implementing the dictates of anti-terrorist and political leadership. Nevertheless, I categorically declare that I am not prepared to allow any acceleration of the trial to work against me and my co-defendants and my comrade Kyriakos himself.

And if the counter-terrorism service took, once again, 17 months to return to where it started from, without any new evidence but insisting on prosecuting me – bagging me with four other people who have absolutely no connection, involvement or knowledge in the case, the trial in question includes a new method. The complete absence of all the counter-terrorism cops from the prosecution’s witnesses. That is, the prosecution, under the orders under which the investigations took place, the arrest warrants were issued and the charges were filed, considers that there is no reason to appear in the proceedings. That is, the prosecution does not appear in a case that it itself is prosecuting. I am not in a position to know the exact reasons why this happened. It is a fact that with the new amendments of 2024 (Floridis Law) it is now possible not to call the police officers who draw up an indictment and lead the pre-trial stage in the trial in an obvious attempt to protect themselves from foreseen contradictions that will eventually arise. However, especially in this case, with such a perforated indictment and a case file full of contradictions, gaps and obvious shortcomings, the absence of anti-terrorist police officers from the prosecution’s witness list aims to protect them in the courtroom with the expected deconstruction of their fabrications.

Whether it comes or not, the responsibilities will be attributed to them. Responsibility for the shameful way in which they treated the family of my comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris in the first hours of the explosion, which far exceeds the moral limits that these unscrupulous guys who swear by democracy and legality supposedly invoke and that they supposedly protect. Responsibility also for the order to take a DNA sample while I was still unconscious in Evangelismos. Responsibility for the fact that once again, like so many others in its years of action, the counter-terrorism is the spearhead of repression with surveillance, persecution, imprisonment of countless fighters.

On the contrary, I will be there. I will be there to assume the responsibilities that fall to me, to defend the political choice for the position I held on 31/10. I will be there to stand up to a mechanism that proves its bias every day and that, for decades now, has been unfolding its full vindictiveness in the face of fighters. Despite all the possible consequences, however, I will proudly defend my partner’s choices, the necessity of fighting by all means, the gravity of this choice and the imprint it leaves. And I will be there because the political space to which I have belonged for the last 15 years of my life is dominated by other values ​​and agendas than those promoted by the system. It does not shift the responsibilities of others as the government does every day, it does not defend partisanship and individual interest as the system promotes, and it does not choose the easy path of selfishness as its representatives choose.

I will not attend the trial to bow my head, nor to renounce my ideas and responsibilities. But I will not give even one more day of freedom to their hands for actions that I not only did not do but also for which there is no evidence to support them. Moreover, the issue of the trial is mainly the preservation of the revolutionary memory of the comrade. Of the deposition of all these elements that make him such an indispensable and unique comrade and person. For me, this is the stake of this particular trial; the prevalence of the image of comrade Kyriakos as we knew him, learned about him, experienced him. As a deeply revolutionary man who, beyond his commitment and presence in the field, decided to sharpen his way of acting despite the adverse conditions that prevail. This is for me the legacy that I hope such a trial will leave. Of devotion and faith in the revolutionary vision even during the greatest challenge. The sign of solidarity and the defense of projects that want us continuously and practically against those who oppress our lives and alongside those who struggle by all means. The dignity and pride that befits our political space from whose bosoms fighters like Kyriakos emerge. People who do not retreat, do not compromise, whose sparkling gaze is enough to illuminate even the most difficult path.

But Kyriakos will be there too. That’s where his heart will beat. Next to me and all the accused. Next to his comrades. He will be there because he knows that the fight for memory is a collective affair and is not simply necessary but essential. Essential for a movement to exist and have a future. Because the stories of those who fell are the ones that inspired others to rise. And as much as the weight of loss bends our knees, it is enough to take a look at that sparkling gaze of his for the fatigue to be shared and the fear to diminish. And if at some point we become discouraged, a look at his genuine smile is enough to remember that nothing is over.

With Kyriakos as our companion, it is in our hands, inside and outside the walls, to reverse the terms of the trial both before and during it. To put a stop to the injustice that has become law, to the bias that has become habit. To perceive justice as a battlefield and the trial as a political conflict. Since the field is already mined, it is an unequal battle, in which there is no middle ground. Either you give up or you fight until the end. And what I can say with certainty is that I and certainly Kyriakos would choose the latter. We are right, we will win.

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT
HONOR FOREVER TO ANARCHIST COMRADE SARAH ARDIZONE AND ANARCHIST COMRADE ALESSANDRO MERCOLIANO
STATE AND CAPITAL THE ONLY TERRORISTS

Marianna Manoura
Women’s prisons of Korydallos

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640410/

Germany: Asphalt Plant on Fire – for a Black Spring, for the Prisoners in the Ampelokipoi Case

Asphalt plant of VINCI/EUROVIA on Fire – for a black spring, for the prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case

A circular economy of death and destruction

Faced with climate crisis, extractivist devastation, and imperialist aggression, a burning asphalt mixing plant owned by one of the world’s largest construction and infrastructure companies actually speaks for itself. Nevertheless, we would like to say a few words about our motives and the company that has been attacked. Because VINCI/EUROVIA is much more than just a producer of asphalt and concrete. This company embodies pretty much everything we despise and that makes this world a place full of oppression, suffering, and misery: highways, airports, dams, (deportation-) prisons, nuclear facilities, military equipment, oil and gas pipelines, mining, and much more…

Everyone who wants to know already knows – the biosphere is suffocating under the gray burden of civilization, and in the near future, many regions of the planet will be uninhabitable as a result of our imperial ways of life and economic practices. Battles over living areas and resources on an unseen scale seem unavoidable, and the current escalation of military conflicts and the relentless war against migrants on the streets of US cities or at the EU’s external borders are already grim signs of what this will look like. Since long we are running out of time. The late capitalist world system is in the midst of profound upheaval, and war is becoming the new normal, while the remaining natural world serves only as a source of raw materials to be plundered before others do.

Companies such as VINCI are benefiting across the entire spectrum from these developments. By constructing nuclear reactors, oil pipelines, and gas terminals (such as the one in Brunsbüttel), the company understands how to secure the future of fossil fuel dinosaurs while simultaneously profiting from the illusion of green energy through huge wind farms and hydroelectric power plants. With its motorway and road network spanning several thousand kilometers and over 70 airports in 14 different countries, built and operated by VINCI, the company is also a major pillar of the global transport infrastructure, fueling, inch by inch, a parasitic system that knows only one direction – and that’s leading straight into ecological collapse. Land grabbing, wars, and genocide are inextricably woven into this system and have enabled the triumph of capitalism, whereby our “wealth” and Western dominance are undoubtedly a product of this deadly (colonial) history. However, in the international scramble for power, influence, and resources, that Western dominance must increasingly assert itself against other players, which leads once again to senseless bloodshed, while creating a good mood in the management suites of the arms industry. ReArm Europe is the battle cry from Brussels to prevail in this conflict, and VINCI is also playing a major role in this front of rearmament and militarization. Therefor the company recently acquired Wärtsilä SAM Electronics, which maintains several German Navy shipyards or provides infrastructure services for dozens of British Army facilities. Wars and environmental destruction, which have always gone hand in hand with the expansion of capitalist exploitation, are forcing more and more people to leave their homes, and never before have so many people been displaced worldwide as today. The “dispensable“ masses of people from the global south are being fought with all severity, and their escape routes have long since turned into mass graves with countless deaths. For those who nevertheless manage to make it all the way here, it is not empathy and compassion that await them, but humiliation, racism, and repression. All of these characteristics, which have shaped the public debate on migration in almost all political camps for years, and thus significantly promote (neo-)fascist tendencies. And here comes full circle. Because even the suffering of refugees can be exploited for profit, and VINCI benefits from the construction of deportation centers and border controls under Europe’s rigorous border regime.

Regardless of all this, the company likes to talk about “responsibility” and “sustainability,” and in light of VINCI’s extensive activities, the much-praised circular economy takes on a whole new meaning, with an extremely bitter flavor. Their arrogance and hypocrisy are unbearable, and we cannot and will not continue to stand idly by and watch them conduct their business of death – For this reason, on the night of March 11, exactly 15 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, we significantly damaged and temporarily shut down the asphalt mixing plant of the nuclear profiteer VINCI/EUROVIA in Schönerlinde/Wandlitz. For this purpose, a little more than half a dozen incendiary devices were placed on various conveyor belts and on the power cables of the motors.

This fireworks display in the Brandenburg night sky is also intended to be a sign of international solidarity and affinity. In particular, we send revolutionary greetings to Marianna M. and Dimitra Z. in the Greek dungeons and to all other prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case who are soon to be put on trial. Love and strength! It should also be mentioned here that VINCI, with over 500 km of roads, is one of the largest highway operators in Greece and is also involved in other dirty deeds and environmental destruction in the country. more on this here (switch off the Mitsotakis regime!)

As we can hardly wait for spring to arrive and our urge to be active blossoms with the first rays of sunshine, we also see this attack as an echo of the call from France – for a black spring in 2026 . With the active support of VINCI, the “Grande Nation” is currently building a nuclear waste disposal site for the radioactive waste produced by its favorite energy source. However, this undertaking is being hindered by the occupied La Gare site and a vibrant resistance community, which is why the old trainstation is now to be evicted. We see things very differently, which is why we are striving to “bring the wheels to a halt a little more” and hope that our smoke signals of solidarity can be seen on the horizon.

Warmer than nuclear – for a black spring!

Against all wars – in Iran, Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine…

No one is free until we are all free!

Fire to the Prisons!

In memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris – revolutionary hearts burn forever!

“And if some never returned, they live among us in every breath of freedom. And if some fell in battle, they stand by us in every action we take. And if some left early, they walk before us and pave the way for us. […] And their subversive memory acts like fuel to our fires, like ink in our texts, like slogans in our marches and like stones in our pockets, giving meaning to their death, calling them for another battle. Again and again…“ Dimitra Z, Marianna M, Korydallos Women’s Prison

Btw: Dobrindt is an idiot and will probably never understand that there are people whose values cannot be bought. Our response to their witch hunt is a simple equation: one million bounty = one million property damage. The night belongs to us! For more flame-spewing volcanoes!

Source: Kontrapolis

Schönerlinde/Wandlitz, Germany: Asphalt plant of VINCI/EUROVIA on Fire – for a black spring, for the prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case

International Week of Solidarity Action with Imprisoned Comrades of Ampelokipi Case and in Memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris

We call for an International Week of Solidarity Action (24-31 March) with the imprisoned comrades for Ampelokipi case and in memory of the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris.

These days before the beginning of the trial on the 1st of April at Athens Court of Appeal, we call for comrades around the world to participate, in order to collectively fight for our comrades’ Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Zarafeta, Dimitris, Nikos Romanos and for A.K’s release, as well as defend the memory of our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Our support and solidarity is non-negotiable and in the battle they are facing -at court this time- we will stand by their side.

Solidarity Manifestation Friday 27/3, 7pm at Syntagma Square (Athens, Greece)

Solidarity manifestation (beginning of the trial) Wednesday 1/4, 8.30am, Athens Court of Appeal

FREE COMRADES MARIANNA MANOURA, DIMITRA ZARAFETA, DIMITRIS, NIKOS ROMANOS AND A.K.

KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT

STATES ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS

Solidarity Assembly for the imprisoned,

fugitives and persecuted fighters

[email protected]

We call for an Internationl Week of Solidarity Action (24-31 March) with the imprisoned comrades for Ampelokipi case and in memory of the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Trial Begins for the Ampelokipi Case

On Wednesday, April 1 (9am), at the 2nd three-member felony panel in Loukareos (4th floor, room D100C), the trial begins for our detained comrades who are being prosecuted for the case of the explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipi. We call for a solidarity rally that day, as well as for the next trials to be scheduled.

The text of the assembly on the case follows.

On 31/10/24, after an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipi, the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while the anarchist comrade Marianna M. ended up seriously injured in the ICU of Evangelismos. She was transferred to the women’s prison of Korydallos where to this day she is deprived of the necessary medical care.

The well-known “witch hunt” and the attempt to shape impressions by the media follow. The narrative is set up as follows: the processing of (a small amount of) explosive material and mechanisms with only the anarchist comrades Kyriakos and Marianna present and knowledgeable is called an organization, the apartment to which there was access only for a few days is called a yafka [safe house used by clandestine urban guerrilla groups], anyone involved with it is targeted and interrogated. Amidst media propaganda, the state and its persecutory mechanisms orchestrate and unleash their repressive plan regarding an anonymous “terrorist” organization with the pool of suspects including friends, relatives, and even strangers, criminalizing political, comradely, and friendly relationships. The anarchist comrade Dimitra Z. and comrade Dimitris are arrested and remanded in custody with the only connection being their relationship with the apartment in which the explosion occurred. A few weeks later, the arrests and pre-trial detentions follow with a unique “element” of a fingerprint section on a mobile object of two more individuals, the anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos and A.K. This flimsy element of the anti-terrorist service, whose pass-through evidence is used without any further questioning by the judicial system, has been used extensively in methods of trapping activists.

The judicial mechanism, in the service of the same state strategy, extended, a few days ago, the pre-trial detention of all those who claimed their freedom, rejecting the requests for release. The pre-trial detainees are once again being tried to appear as unconscious, “blind” bombers, as a “public danger”.

However, the truth is far from their police reports and their miserable publications. In contrast to the barbarity of the capitalist world, the anarchist concept stands against and consciously acts against the logic of collateral damage, which now parades as evidence of guilt against means and choices of struggle. Which oppressed, which poor, which proletarian, which immigrant has reason to believe that they are in danger from the world of Struggle and its choices? From people dedicated to the fight against inequality and exploitation, people who take their place on the lines of revolutionary struggle, who dedicate and are ultimately capable of giving their own lives to the defense of high ideals, to the overthrow of the world of power. People who resist in every way the storm of privatization, individualization, indifference to the commons and politics.

The proletariat, the social majority, have no common interest with the oil and drug smugglers, the intertwined mafiosi, the powerful millionaire oligarchs of banking, construction, shipping and industrial capital who own all of the major systemic media. With those who openly support the policies of governments, who profit from the unbearable accuracy in basic necessities and anti-worker legislation, who cover up state murders at the borders, in police stations, on public transport, on the streets, who wash and cover up scandals and rapists. Who are connected to the international and domestic arms industry, who promote and support the participation of the Greek state on all war fronts and in the genocide of the Palestinians. The poor, the oppressed, the marginalized, the proletariat – natives or refugees and immigrants – know that the revolutionary struggle, the radical struggle, is waged within the class war, for their interests.

For this reason, we do not forget and will not stop saying: The state and capital were, are and will be terrorists. They terrorize through the daily oppression of our lives. They are the ones who exploit and plunder nature and our lives in order to maximize their profits, who condemn us to poverty and destitution, who throw us out onto the street by selling out the obvious need for housing to funds, who turn our neighborhoods into inaccessible tourist zones, who hide the ever-increasing worker murders behind the word accident, who kill immigrants and refugees at the borders, in labor camps and police stations, who cover up and reproduce patriarchy and sexist violence by shamelessly handing out panic buttons. Those who wage wars on the altar of their economic and political interests, those who redistribute the world by staining their hands with blood, those who attack the peoples of the Middle East and level the resisting Gaza, those who commit the genocide of the Palestinian people. Those who confirm the violence of a system of inequalities, the violence of the powerful.

Revolutionary anti-violence is a necessary tool of struggle as a collective defense of social parties that struggle against state repressive violence, as it can act as a lever of pressure to sabotage the plans of the sovereign, to prevent national wars but also to spread the revolutionary project. Armed struggle as part of revolutionary anti-violence, attempts and succeeds in returning to the state a portion of the violence that it daily inflicts on us. Armed struggle is an integral part of the radical movement, of the multifaceted social and class struggle, deeply rooted in our militant tradition, and we defend it as non-negotiable.

Part of this continuous insurrectionary movement of resistance against the imposition of power was the armed anarchist fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris. Comrade Kyriakos was for years continuously present in projects of solidarity with prisoners, in the anti-war Internationalist movement, in actions for the defense of the Exarchia neighborhood, in the struggles within the universities, in the defense of the liberated spaces of occupations and in every social and class struggle. He chose to fight to the end, fighting with all means the world of power, the state, capital, racism, patriarchy. He chose to fight on the side of the oppressed and the rebels for a better world, for a world of solidarity, equality, freedom. Somehow his last breath found him, where he consciously and always consistently chose to be, in the struggle.

We defend all those who gave their lives, who were imprisoned, who fought, who were confronted with state methods throughout so many years of social and class war.

WHO FORGETS THE PRISONERS OF WAR
FORGETS THE WAR ITSELF

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS PRESENT

Solidarity Assembly for the imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted activists
[email protected]

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640139/

Athens, Greece : Update on Health of Comrades Marianna M. and Dimitra Z.

DEPRIVING PRISONERS OF MEDICAL CARE IS TORTURE

Hands off anarchist comrades Marianna M. and Dimitra Z.

On 31/10/24, following an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipi, the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while the anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, was severely injured, hospitalised and guarded in the ICU of the “Evangelismos” General Hospital. The following days, comrades Dimitra Z., Dimitris and Nikos R., as well as A.K., were remanded in custody.

From the very beginning, state violence was applied to comrade Marianna. With her transfer to Korydallos women’s prison just one day after the second operation she underwent, her hospitalisation was violently interrupted while she still had open wounds on her face, she could not walk or fully care for herself, was dizzy and in pain. The “Evangelismos” General Hospital discharged her as a patient in this condition, knowing full well the miserable environment of the prison to which she would be transferred, where there is not even any kind of hospital and therefore no possibility of providing her with extremely necessary medical care before she fully recovers.

Her torture in Korydallos prison continues to this day. Her serious health condition, as well as the risk of long-term complications, are the result of the deprivation of necessary medical post-operative care. From the very beginning they deprived her of the provision of pharmaceuticals and forced her to stay in cells full of cockroaches, in extremely poor sanitary conditions. While to this day – four months later – necessary and urgent diagnostic tests have not been initiated. To her request to be assessed by a doctor and immediately initiate a brain CT scan requested by an outside doctor who visited her a long time ago, the response of the prison neurologist was “if you don’t fall down with an epileptic seizure, we won’t take you to hospital.” A response that accurately reflects the condition of vindictiveness, punishment, and torture that the rulers impose on anyone who finds themselves captured in the cells of democracy.

To the already heavy situation of confinement was added the appearance of intense rashes and itching in comrade Dimitra. A short time later, the comrade Marianna also showed similar symptoms and only then was the diagnosis of scabies made, while they have been torturing Dimitra for two months with their icy indifference, attributing the symptoms to psychological reasons and administering sedatives to her without having ruled out pathological causes.

The climax of the insult to our comrades was the torture suffered by the comrade Dimitra on Saturday 29/3 evening. After showing a sharp deterioration in her symptoms and developing a fever, she was transferred to Korydallos “Agios Pavlos” hospital, where – among other things – the doctor in charge addressed her by saying “for us you are just numbers”, indicating the already well-known perception of such scumbags about the lives of prisoners. Despite these conditions, the comrade demanded and achieved the obvious, her transfer to the Nikaia State Hospital.

In a clear decision to exacerbate the physical and psychological exhaustion of the comrade, the EOM, following central orders, called the hospital doctors to the transport van, inside which the comrade suffered the torture of a dermatological and gynecological examination using cell phone lenses and in the presence of the cops, with the comrade repeatedly asking them to turn away during the “examination”-torture. She was then transferred to the pathology clinic, as it was deemed necessary to carry out medical examinations. When the comrade requested to speak to the doctor again regarding a problem, the cops refused, saying “we know what they told you, there’s no need.” Tension prevailed, in which a nurse was involved in defending the comrade, who, true to their thuggish methods, the cops pushed away and took the comrade back to the prison.

The comrades are walking the path that hundreds of prisoners take when they are imprisoned. Their torture reminds us of how the state apparatus takes revenge on those who challenge its monopoly of violence, but also on those it considers “excessive”. The sadistic way of treating and torturing prisoners through the deprivation of medical care is yet another means of trying to discipline and oppress them. The lives of prisoners are devalued, considered inferior, thrown to the sidelines, forcing them to claim the obvious and pushing them towards deterioration, physical and mental extermination.

In Korydallos women’s prison, the medical examinations performed on prisoners are minimal and superficial, while when examinations are required in hospital, the wait can be up to three months. In addition, many of the treatments that prisoners were undergoing before being imprisoned are generally prohibited and forcibly interrupted, with serious consequences for their health. The necessary medication that each one needs is prescribed by the prison doctors, but the medicines finally reach the prisoners after even two months. Ultimately, as is largely the case outside the walls, access to basic medical care acquires clear class characteristics, since prisoners are forced to resort to external private doctors to visit them in prison, a process that only those who have the corresponding financial means can support. The rest, the majority, are left to their own devices, victims of the indifference, bureaucracy and vindictiveness of the state machine. Such impositions of state power clearly constitute torture and potential murder.

We remember the dozens of murders of prisoners due to lack of medical care and utter neglect, the dozens of immigrants who are murdered daily in concentration camps, detention centres and police stations, the suicides and the hundreds of complaints by prisoners about inhumane and unsanitary conditions inside prisons. The examples are many and fresh in our memory.

However, we also remember the hundreds of struggles and uprisings carried out by prisoners inside prisons, the fighters who gave their lives to demand basic needs and care inside the cells of democracy. Struggles that continue to this day and will find us by their side, uniting our voices with those of the prisoners.

Comrade Dimitra needs immediate hospitalisation, while comrade Marianna must be taken immediately for a brain CT scan. The administration of Korydallos women’s prison with director Triantafylli Konstantopoulou, the “Evangelismos” General Prison with commander Anastasios Grigoropoulos and deputy Batis Veniamin, the State Hospital of Nikaia as well as the Ministries of Health and Pro.Po. (ministry of justice) bear full responsibility for the torture of our comrades, for the serious risk of deterioration of their health – but also of not fully recovering – to which they have been exposed. We make it clear in all directions, whatever happens to them will have consequences and will not go unanswered.

HANDS OFF THE ANARCHIST PRISONERS MARIANNA M.

AND DIMITRA Z.

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS IS ONE OF US, A COMRADE FOREVER

IN THE STREETS OF FIRE

SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE PERSECUTED FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST PRISON

Solidarity Assembly for Prisoners,

fugitive and persecuted militants

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via: athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18169

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