Policeman of the DIAS motorcycle force runs over and kills 6-year old girl ATHENS MENIDI AREA

  www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/01/05/462-policeman-of-the-dias-motorcycle-force-runs-over-and-kills-6-year-old-girl/

A policeman of the “DIAS” motorcycle police ran over a 6-year old roma girl in the area of Menidi in NE Athens. According to eye-witnesses, the six-year old girl was run over as she was on the streets, where she was signing the carols with other children (in Greece, children sing carols on the eve of the Epiphany day, Jan 6). The eye-witnesses also claim the policeman dragged the girl along for 150 meters and did not stop to offer any help.
The policeman who killed the girl is at the nearby police station of Nea Ionia, yet his status is yet unclear. Around 100 people gathered at the spot of the assassination and attacked the riot police once the news of the girl’s death broke out.

 

FOTOS FROM THE AREA CLASSES WITH RIOTCOPS...

Responsibility claim for incendiary attack on the “GAP” Athens, 4/1/11

Responsibility claim for incendiary attack on the “GAP”

Athens, 4/1/11

We are at war we are not celebrating...

We have hostages and we act...

Fire, attack, destruction, this is our choice, this is the side we choose...

Because the masks have fallen, because its the moment where the consumerist smiles are too many, the life of plenty, on credit, collapsed.... Hypocrisy and indifference are from now on a conscious attitude.

And we consciously and decisively from the side of the urban guerilla warfare, moved, on the night of friday 31/12/10, around the streets of Psihiko area, welcoming the new year in the GAP shop, contributing to the fireworks of the changing of the year with 2 incendiary devices.

This is our gift to the market and the downfall its taken, something that especially pleases us....

We do not forget the hostages in the cells of democracy. We salute the solidarity gatherings outside the various prisons of the country, on new years eve.

We do not forget our comrades and we respond to the call for active solidarity before the upcoming trial for the case of the Revolutionary Organization Conspiracy Cells of Fire.

Now we speak with actions....

P.S. Strength and decisiveness to all those who walk the paths of denial.

COMMANDO FOR ACTIVE SOLIDARITY

Bomb explodes outside court in Athens, 30/12

ATHENS — A powerful bomb detonated outside a court building near central Athens on Thursday morning, causing significant damage but no injuries, the police said.
The authorities found the device and cordoned off the area around the Athens administrative court after calls to the private television station Alter and the daily newspaper Eleftherotypia at about 7:40 a.m. warned that a bomb would go off there in 40 minutes.
“In both cases, the caller said the device had been strapped to a scooter outside the courthouse and gave the scooter’s registration number,” said an officer at the Athens police headquarters who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. “The explosion occurred two minutes after the deadline,” the officer said, adding that police bomb disposal experts had gathered the remnants of the device and the vehicle and were examining them.
A local resident told the private television station Skai that he had seen two men dressed in police uniforms pull up near the court building on a motorcycle about 6:30 a.m. The witness said he greeted the men, who told him they were abandoning the scooter because it had engine problems. According to the witness, the pair then got into a white van parked nearby and were driven away by a third person.
The explosion damaged the facade of the court building as well as several cars, and also blew out windows in nearby apartment buildings.

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The caller who provided the warning in the Athens bombing was described as a man speaking clearly in Greek. The blast occurred in a densely populated area in the city’s Ambelokipi district, shattering windows and nearby shop storefronts in a 200-meter (yard) radius, and seriously damaging at least 10 cars. It sent up a cloud of smoke that was visible across the city.
Police said the bomb was stored in a hard luggage case in the back of a motorcycle reported stolen in a nearby area of Athens several hours earlier.
An initial examination of the site, suggested that the explosive Anfo — a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil used in construction but also in improvised explosive devices — was used, police investigators said. The material has been used in the past and seized in police raids in recent months on suspected militant safehouses.

Bomb explodes outside court in Athens,

Bomb explodes outside court in Athens, no injuries reported so far

ATHENS, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb rocked the Administrative Court of Athens in Panormos area at around 08:21 a.m. local time (0621 GMT) on Thursday, but no injuries have been reported so far.

Police evacuated the building immediately after receiving a warning call at 07:38 a.m. (0538 GMT) but have yet to confirm that everyone had left safely.

The car, parked outside the central Athens court, was engulfed in flames after the explosion, causing thick black smoke that enveloped the whole area. A witness said the car was lifted three meters off the ground by the explosion.

The court building and nearby parked cars were extensively damaged.

The area has been cordoned off by police.

"Tha mas fate to mouti" (we'll make you eat our shit) keratea eastern attica 40km from Athens, near Lavrion.

Keratea is a town of 16.000 residents, situated in eastern Attica, 40km from Athens, near Lavrion. The site has an ancient history that has left many remains, an amphitheater, parts of the ancient fortification... As many villages in Attica, it has also a strong arbanitic tradition, that highlights values such as extended family solidarity and social cohesion, against a usually alienated authority, as well as a sense of pride and putting head to a cause. Most residents are small farmers (wine, olives etc), workers and/or unemployed, retired. During the last decade, after the construction of the international airpot at Spata (2001), and also Lavrion and Rafina ports development to unburdain Piraeus' heavy traffic, eastern Attica suffered a sort of gentrification with Athens recreational, turistic and construction firms moving eastern (this mouvement can be tracked by almost annual forest fires, taking care of what's left of Attica's "unexploited" space). Ofcourse, infrastructure and any kind of social services (even proper sewage systems) remain significantly unadequate. The suggested creation of a huge open dump would be the top of the iceberg -or the mountain of garbage- to the complete subjugation of the territory and the people to private profit, as a dangerous and typically illegal "solution" to the garbage disposal problem of all Attica is proclaimed against the will of those that will have to suffer it, and once they make clear their disagreement, they are violently repressed. No time for the old days' "negotiations" in the socialist government's "fast track" capitalism. The issue of dump constractions and garbage disposal in general has given birth to diverse militant struggles held in different parts of Greece these last years, with most significant the ones in Grammatiko (northern Attica), Neraida-Serres, Varnavas, Naxos island, Karvounari, Elliniko-Ioannina, and ofcourse Leukimmi, Corfu, where a small village manages to block the construction works and confront the police by all means for 3 years now, having one woman dead to the police violence, and many facing charges.
"We are Arbanites here, got it? We 'll take care of this on our own, they don't get it. It's gonna take an army to stop us, the riot cops are no match for us". -A local resident to "Eleutherotypia" newspaper.

The residents are argueing that creating an open dump (a large hole where all garbage is simply burried, a practice even the EU officialy condemns) in Keratea is a major environmental crime threatening the residents health and well-being, as well as the nearby archaeological sites (Ovriokastro, submitted for UNESCO protected historical monuments and sites), the Mouzaki stream as well as underground waters and minerals. Its construction serves only certain private interests, while even a state jury has decided it should be outlawed. Instead of that, the state has responded to the residents challenge with heavy repression and media slander (Since most mass-media are typically bankrupt, they are now totally dependent on state funds and publications to survive, not to mention the "normal" state-media-contractors capitalist complex).

11/12: 4:30 am: More than 700 cops (riot pigs, plain clothes ruffians, special forces) taking place inside the archaeological site and private properties, fields of the locals to scare them off. After a few hours, they decide to leave, once the district attorney suggests the work is typically illegal. On their way out, they managed to set a few fires (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fJ81Ao4zT9M/TQO3l0r46hI/AAAAAAAABhc/zJthzmQKZJU/s1600/DSC00171.JPG) on the mountain and destroy the community's festival site, and harass elder people, women and schoolkids.

12/12: 5 arrestees at Lavrion, for a street blockade in solidarity. Hundreds of people in the blockade, force the cops to retreat (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_J4i5JXPz8p0/TQT3mYrl5tI/AAAAAAAAABY/vkn-LK5Sj-8/s320/P1050675.JPG). The riot cops are outrageous. Extensive, massive use of molotov cocktails by the residents. journalists speaking of "groups from Athens coming to Keratea for the riots" kicked out of the blockade by residents. Another journalist gets beaten by the cops. Video from the day's clashes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTEZmG_zGko&feature=related
The minister mr. Ragkouses, announces through the media that it is not about an open dump but a processed garbage disposal center (though the work's permit clearly states it is an open dump), and that its purpose is to help with the area's garbage (though the area produces around 350 tonnes of garbage a year and the dump is planned to hold 127.000 tonnes a year: They plan to turn Keratea-Lavrio into the garbage dump of the whole Attica). The residents had filed a plan to self-manage through their communities recycling etc the garbage of the whole Lavrion area, but while the government initialy accepted it, then declined it: apparently it is better to sub-contract the work to some of their contraction business mates and turn it into a money-dump.

During the night, street lights are off where the residents stand and only work on the cops' side. The helicopter is still on.

13/12: The local students occupy/shut down their school and join their families and friends in the blockades. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fJ81Ao4zT9M/TQaJYl9cDLI/AAAAAAAABi0/X5UQQ8z6hB4/s1600/162723_1783871840831_1360531010_2911131_4376699_n.jpg) Also anarchists and people of the movement gather from all over Athens. All day clashes with the cops. Massive use of molotov cocktails of local production. Urban guerilla by hundreds of small, friendly groups attacking the police forces and retreating to the village. A police bus set on fire. Many cops inured.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfTd6DG6eE&feature=player_embedded

Hundreds of people in the blockades. 6 arrestees after the riot police attacks, 4 of them severely beaten, supported by a police helicopter tracking down the residents on their way back. A riot police brigade targeted, surrounded and beated the mayor of Keratea (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fJ81Ao4zT9M/TQTf_evu46I/AAAAAAAABhs/Vx3YJSlnSRI/s320/P1050690.JPG). The cops only back up so that people and medics can take him once he's beaten senseless on the ground. During the morning, the district attorney decided the work had to be temporarily stopped, but instead of ordering the police to do so, as it would be expected according to their laws, he handled the decision over, as a suggestion, to the police and the work contractor, claiming he need to get a political aprovement from the government! The media continue to slander the residents resistance as backwards and reactionary, claiming they "merely want the garbage to gather in some other town" while praising the work that would end the illegal status of 96 (a fictituous number repeated by many mass-media parrots) illegal dumps around western Attica. Athens district attorney Elene Raikou orders a police investigation on the "attempted murder" against police officers by resistant residents of Keratea, as use of firearms was reported by the cops.

"We inform you that all residents are in the streets against the riot police and we are at war!" -message from the town hall's phone machine.

14/12: More than 50 people injured up to now. 2.000 riot cops mobilized in Keratea, according to the Panattican network of urban movements. The police helicopter uses a thermal camera to spot smaller groups attacking the police lines from the sides, during the night. A riot cop brigade is sent to arrest them, turns out it was a herd of sheep. Around 300 residents and solidarians remain at the blockades during the night. Cops take over the nearby fields. In their attacks, the cops yell "run, the junta is here!". Later on the same day, the police union publish a complaint to the minister of environment, claiming they are made into boxing sacks for "irrational" reasons. Daily report from occupied london blog: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/14/444-third-day-of-rioting-in-keratea-attica-against-waste-burial-site-construction-sees-riot-police-van-and-policeman-set-alight-court-orders-temporary-halt-to-the-works-greece-counts-hours-to-it/ Report from contrainfo site: http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2010/12/13/keratea-atticagreece-no-more-trash-in-our-lives-residents-against-landfill-constructions/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bOd-fiXT_w&feature=player_embedded . First use of a water canon in Greece, since the military junta of 1967-74: http://antixyta.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_7714.html

"We 're now heading towards the end of our lives, don't make us go back to the battlefields in times of peace" -from the call of senior citizens of Keratea to the prime minister.

15/12: The police attack during the night. More than 1.500 residents and solidarians (Mainly people from the movement and also some youth). 2 residents arrested and much more beaten. 3 taken to a hospital. The police chased down people inside the olive tree fields. Second night of water canon use.

"Late at night a group of elders sit around and wonder: where are the anarchists to help us? -There in Athens grandpa, but they'll come. Someone reassured them. It might be a myth born through the residents' mobilizations. But dozens of residents affirm that a group of local women, of an advanced age, complained to the mayor and the city council, that they are running out of molotovs" -from an "Eleutherotypia" newspaper report

16/12: Larissa jury certifies the dump construction in Keratea is illegal and need to stop all works. The residents celebrate with a feast at the blockade. Daily report from occupied london blog: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/16/453-residents-of-keratea-attica-continue-their-struggle-with-riot-police-against-the-construction-of-a-landfill-for-a-sixth-consecutive-day/

17/12: Early in the morning, policemen vandalise the local community vehicles, on the pretext of them being used in the blockades. The police also took over a community first aid office, causing damages to the space and taking fingerprints. On their way back, they burnt down the schoolkids christmas tree. Heavy police forces around the blockades, asking passerbyers to show their IDs and allowing only neighborhood residents to pass.

An open call from Lavrion anarchists/antiauthoritarians to defend the blockades. Heavy rain and judicial procedures set many locals back.(http://antixyta.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_1747.html)

"The heroic resistance of the residents of Keratea, Lavrion and solidarians from all other places give the proper answer to all recipients. If they consider everything is for sale, we reply that a people's dignity is not for sale" -from Lavrion anarchists/antiauthoritarians call.

Photos: http://antixyta.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_1991.html http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rfxHwNHuSM/TQuhhgYHrrI/AAAAAAAAAJI/jQOKxQPM9Jc/s1600/keratea_xyta.jpg

18/12: Riot police and residents face to face at the blockade. Clashes errupt. The pigs are forced to retreat to Ovriokastro. the pigs beat to bleeding an elder resident. He appears shocked in a video saying: "Oh you guys, help me heal now and then we take the arms and show them" (http://antixyta.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_1747.html)
 The municipal council of nearby Kalyvia, together with many politicians (from Socialdemocratic SYN to neofascist LAOS) announces its support to Keratea residents struggle, and asks for the creation of a local committe to play an intermediate role.

19/12: Unprovoked police attack, one 65 year old woman and a girl beaten to the ground. The residents gather again and chase the cops, 2 arrests. Negotiations to let them free. Popular assembly in the main town square. The mayor and the town's priest announce their support to the struggle... Daily report at occupied london blog: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/19/keratea-struggle-continues/

20/12: Gathering in solidarity in front of Athens jury, where the prosecuted residents will be presented Monday morning.

Some photos from the official community's page: http://www.keratea.gr/dimos/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=483&Itemid=1

http://www.keratea.gr/dimos/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=472&Itemid=1

From for Keratea blog: http://forkeratea.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_3550.html

XYTA (open dump) means resistance blog: http://xytasimaineiantistasi.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_7843.html

Videos: http://xytasimaineiantistasi.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_5359.html

Map of the blockade: http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/untitled-1drdoel.jpg

protesters in Athens were clashing with riot police in front of the Polytechnic, while barricades have been erected all along Patision st. and the sourounding Exarcheia. Thousand of people refuse to leave the streets and the squares of the city -after the more than 100,000 strong march, they are regroupinhg all around the centre and clash with the police for most of the day. The atmosphere smells of tear gas while rubbish bins are in flames everywhere downtown.

http://bno.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7154:2010-12-15-15-16-18&catid=62:newsflash Huge demonstration in Athens, demos in many cities. Updated news here: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/ .
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Athens, Greece - Police and locals clash in landfill protest in Keratea

Despite the decision taken by the court for a temporary cessation of work, the provocative repression forces didn’t leave the area so the clashes were rekindled. Residents attacked MAT (riot police) which today and all these days attacked and brutally beat people. There were melee fights between residents and cops, while a police bus was burned down by molotov cocktails. Today, cops arrested 5 residents.
It is estimated that more than 50 people were injured and several arrests were made.

Fierce battles between riot cops and locals resisting the construction of a waste burial site have continued for a third consecutive day in the area of Keratea, Attica (around 10 miles south of Athens International Airport). This morning, a court ordered a temporary halt to the works. A small victory, which could however very easily be a smokescreen to calm down the insurgent locals and to allow the police to concentrate on the General Strike in central Athens on Wednesday.
At least six people in struggle were arrested by police in Keratea, of which one has been injured and is in hospital.In the past two days, local residents of the area of Keratea in Attica (Greater Athens) have been engaged in a fierce battle with riot police (MAT). The riot police are there to protect the construction of a waste burial site (HITA). Such burial sites have not only been judged to be illegal by European courts but additionally, the site in Keratea is of archeological significance.
On Saturday, riot police arrived at the site to protect the ongoing construction works from the enraged locals. Clashes quickly erupted, with locals attacking the police with sticks, stones and scores of molotov cocktails. The police responded with tear gas while for the first time ever in Greece, water cannons also made their appearance. On Sunday evening, gunshots were aimed in the direction of the police from nearby hills.

Strong clashes in Keratea district (11th & 12th December 2010) athens greece

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Strong clashes in Keratea district (11th & 12th December 2010)   The residents of Keratea district have gathered since early Saturday morning at Ovriokastro in Keratea district opposing against the State’s decision to build up a garbage storage area on the certain spot. The State has decided to build up the garbage storage area of the whole Attica’s waste on Ovriokastro,  despite the fact that the certain spot is officially an archeological site  (decision of the Central Archeological Council). In the mobilization of the citizens participate also members of the major council who also provide the citizens with the town-hall’s vehicles. Earlier on Saturday, around 5:00, the pigs of repression forces arrived at Ovriokastro in order to guard the area, so bulldozes could start the construction. Hundreds of people started directing on the spot trying to block the construction.   The pigs reacted in their usual neo-fascistic methods by throwing tear-gas, sound-shine grenades and beating up children, youths, men and women, people in their third age. The citizens responded with stones, Molotov cocktails, flaming barricades and woods they could find around in order to protect themselves and nature. After the straight reaction of the citizens the pigs stated that they would leave the spot, accepting that their presence there is illegal. Instead, more pigs started gathering (around 400 of special pigs) but also more citizens started directing to Ovriokastro. During the clashes, a small fire raised up “accidentally” in the forest because of a tear-gas canister. Later in the three water canon cop-vehicles started directing also on the spot, while a cop-helicopter was continuously flying above the mountain. The pigs remained in the area for the whole night.   The companies who are involved in the certain construction:    ΜΕΣΟΓΕΙΟΣΑ.Ε. - ΠΡΟΕΤΑ.Ε. - ENDRACO Α.Τ.Ε.   On Sunday mourning around 2000 people started directing towards the spot. The pigs started the war for one more time and the citizens kept on defending with any weapon they could find around. The clashes keep on during the whole afternoon with the cops beating up even children and women but also having a water-canon with them – important to mention that this is the first time of its use after the fall of the military junta. Mr. Marinos Aliferis, a journalist, was injured by the pigs’ violence and had to go to Evaggelismos Hospital. Civil cops have also switched off for several minutes the live-streaming camera of zougla.gr.   Meanwhile, flaming barricades  are set up on Lavriou Avenue and some citizens have also  sabotaged the electricity supply.   Also shots from a gun have been heard in afternoon, possibly from citizens  who shot on the air to make the pigs think twice about their actions. The guerrilla keeps on until the time that this article is being written with barricades on several roads, attacks with stones and Molotov cocktails and body to body fights. The citizens have made it to keep the pigs stepping back anytime they were trying to attack. Tones of tear-gas have been thrown but the people still resist. Residents from other areas have started directing to the spot  driving also four bulldozes with them in order to protect themselves  from pigs’ violence.  The people have announced that they will remain there for the whole night.

“The IMF is not an image on your TV screen”: a brief report from tonight’s demonstration in Athens

www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

Thursday, November 18, 2010

(Dedicated to our comrade who was unable to join us today, still recovering in hospital. See you in the streets!)

Riot police march in front of a wall-painted slogan reading “The troika [meaning the IMF, EU and ECB] is not an image on your TV screens; responses are given in the streets”. Athens, 17/11/2010.

It will take us a little while to comprehend today’s events in Athens – and surely, this is not the best moment to do so – writing these lines after a full twelve hours in the streets. But still, some first thoughts are of order. What happened today was important. First, today’s demonstration had a very peculiar feel to it. The largest Polytechnic uprising commemorative demonstration in more than a decade (30,000 according to the police, around double in real numbers). A very tense feeling in the air. Even before the demo set off, clashes with the youth branch of PASOK – the social-democrat party in power – who had the nerve to try join the demonstration. The police on the sides of the march, with their hands on the trigger of the tear-gas guns the entire time. People waiting for something to happen on both ends: our end, and on that of the police.
And something did happen. The most intense and populous demonstration Athens has seen since May 5th. The police charging ahead whenever they could, whenever they would isolate people off the main block of the demonstration. People fighting back, during the demo and then, late in the night, in Exarcheia. But that peculiar feeling hasn’t faded: we are still waiting something will happen… Tonight was the last day of a long summer. Tomorrow is the first day of a strange winter – hopefully, a beautiful winter.

from the greek streets blog

Tonight saw the largest Polytechnic uprising demonstration in Athens in at least a decade, with reports of 50-60,000 taking to the streets. We have unconfirmed reports of a demonstration being injured by tear gas in the face. At least 25-30 people have been detained so far.

American activist seriously injured in the head by Delta motorcycle police during tonight’s anti-IMF demonstration in Athens 16/11.

UPDATE, 00.48. Tests so far on the injured comrade show there are no broken bones and no internal bleeding. She is, however, very badly hit in the face by the cops and the doctors have asked for her to stay in hospital for another 24 hours at least. Cops had followed her to hospital, harassed her and tried to interrogate her, only to back off when other comrades arrived. At the time of writing (00.45) the cops have left the hospital.
What follows is a compilation of accounts of comrades who were at tonight’s demonstration in central Athens, close to the injured activist and whose reports are verified and trustworthy. Please spread. We will post more information here, as it comes.
The events unfolded toward the end of tonight’s demonstration against the presence of representatives of the IMF in central Athens. As we were marching at the last block of the demonstration on Patision Avenue, having left Omonoia square and heading back toward the Polytechnic, a number of “Delta” motorcycle police appeared at the back of the demonstration. They roared their engines and charged toward the crowd. People started running toward the Polytechnic. The delta managed to get hold of a female American activist who was at the last part of the demonstration. They knocked down, kicked her and stamped her head. She was knocked semi-unconscious, taken inside the Polytechnic by other comrades and a few moments later, transported to a central Athens hospital.
We are currently waiting to hear back from the doctors as of the state of her health. Her injuries are serious, but in no case life-threatening.

Arson attack, responsibility claim.

3/11
We do not forget, We do not forgive.
last night in Menidi area there was an arson attack on the elections kiosk of the known unknown snitch of the system Themis Oikonomou. The reason of this action is the attitude he kept before and after the arrests of the comrades that had done actions against the casino and for the mountain of Parnitha.
Solidarity to all persecuted comrades 

http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2010/08/30/parnithastruggle-against-the-looting-of-the-mountain-and-fascist-activity/

gathering that was taking place there.
 The holocaust of June 27, 2007, was just a single moment of the ongoing destruction and looting of Parnitha through a variety of criminal activities and plans of the political and economic powers, on the mountain.

At the Court of Appeals one of the two  arrested for the story of the letter  bombs....

First post: Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Court of Appeal was Attended by one of two youths who were arrested yesterday in Pangrati for package bombs addressed to French President and embassies of foreign countries. The 22 year old

was brought to the Court of Appeal, against the pending arrest warrant for involvement in the organization "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire."

Having executed the warrant, the 22 year old will be transferred along with 24 year old second person arrested in the First Instance Court Prosecutor for prosecution. The 24 year old  brother
is wanted for the same organization for which the prosecutor has, however, not indicted.

bomb explodes outside the Swiss embassy in Athens

A small letter  bomb exploded outside the Swiss embassy in Kolonaki, Athens a few hours ago   2 November. The bomb was in a letter. Another booby-trap was found at the Bulgarian embassy in

Psichiko, Athens; this was discovered by an embassy employee before it  exploded.


Explosion takes place in courier offices 1 November.


An explosion took place at noon in the offices of a courier company in the area of Pagrati. The explosive device was packaged in an envelope which, according to reports, was to be delivered in the Embassy of Mexico in Athens.



A female employee of the company is suffering injures to two fingers.

Police have taken for questioning two suspects who were found in the area.

The first reports for the arrests mention that one of the two is a known suspect for participation in the "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire"  and that one was found wearing a bullet-proof vest,

while both were carrying Glock type pistols.

It is also reported that two more envelops have been found. One was in the suspect's possession, while the other was found at another courier company in the same area and was addressed to the Embassy of  the Netherlands.

a ghost is floating above the city... TERROR LAW 3 After the terror law 1 and 2 comes the most awaited 3rd part of the trilogy... “state corruption reaches the top” “Strong excitements, mass arrests” “now with anonymous testimonies” YOU TOO CAN BECOME THE NEXT “TERRORIST”... Soon in the streets near you

Arrests in Xanthi for arson attempt |north Greece} 28/10/10 two were arrested and one more is wanted. Early this morning two people were arrested while they tried to burn the stand for the officials that was set up for the parade today. The cops say they found gasoline and flares on them.

Iranian refugees have sewn their mouths, on hunger strike demanding political asylum, constant updates on their blog

Five  Iranian men and one woman have sewn their mouths and are on hunger strike since October 14th (one more man joined in on the 15th). On Friday, the woman had a tendency to vomit and needed to be transferred to hospital, yet the state-run ambulance service (EKAV) refused to help since “she had sewn her mouth herself”. The refugees and people in solidarity  have now rented a private ambulance, which they can only afford to keep until Monday.
In total, 35 adults and 9 children are taking part in the hunger strike.
More information and constant updates at the campaign’s blog: Iranian Political Asylum Seeker’s Campaign in Athens

‘Beneath the Acropolis we go on strike…’

Approximately 100 ministry contractual employees barricaded themselves inside the Acropolis site overnight on Wednesday, 13 October, demanding two years of back pay and permanent contracts. They padlocked the entrance gates and refused to allow in tourists. Guardians of the Acropolis site (Athens, Greece) work in behalf of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism either as civil servants (with permanent contracts) or as contractual employees (with temporal contracts). More than 400 contract-workers of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism have been working unpaid for up to 22 months. These are workers who have up to 20 years of service. The Greek government shows them the door of unemployment. Most of them will be laid off after years of flexible and underpaid work.
The following morning, Thursday, 14 October, the director of the First Inspectorate of Prehistoric Classical Antiquities filled a lawsuit, thus giving excuse to police squads to storm the site. Approximately 80 employees refused to open the gate against police squads, even when cops entered from a side door tear-gassing and beating with fury protesters, passers-by, even (so-called) journalists. There were people injured (unconfirmed number) and at least one witnessed arrest.

Workers remained in the archaeological site, which was shut down throughout the day. The same afternoon, under heavy rain, a solidarity gathering had been called in the presence of police and security force. The assemblers were beaten by police. Two of the slogans were ‘Beneath the Acropolis we go on strike; we think of the slaves rather than Phidias,’ and ‘Solidarity is peoples’ weapon – War against the bosses’ war.’

Mass media mocked the strikers, with hysterical scaremongering for ‘tourists who have traveled from far-flung countries, and will not see the Parthenon’ and comments such as ‘authorities often are sensitive [!] to protests at the emblematic ancient site, particularly as the country largely relies on tourism for revenue’… With the most famous recipe, that of brainwashing, international and Greek media prepares public opinion to accept the brutal repression at all levels.

Contrainfo will publish a special report about the dirty coverage of this issue by the state media.

Julia Riber Pitt said...

SOLID(A)RITY FOREVER! The struggle never ends until the injustice does!

October 15, 2010 9:09 PM

solidarity concert for anarchist simos seihidis in athens 26/10

selforganized park in exarchia Athens.

Very beautiful. We should do something like this in our cities, especially here in Baltimore where there’s so many closed homes and empty lots. They are private property, so there’s no legal way we would be able to turn one of those into a garden or park like you have in Exarchia.

Anonymous said...

the way they turned the parking lot place into a park in exarchia wasn't quite 'legal' also... so there always is a way (even though i can not judge the situation in your city, i know it can be very difficult, dependent on local police/government)

Fight against the disastrous diversion dam of Acheloos river greece

"against the dam"

” The dam and the works in Mesochora will be completed by the end of 2010. It has been completed almost 100%. The operation will begin in 2012 and will bring a profit of EUR 30,000,000. We only need to overcome the obstacle of the State Council”. This is what the Minister for the Environment declared in mid-July 2010 concerning the crime against the ecosystem of Acheloos from the pharaonic-like construction projects on the upstream and the total destruction from the attempted diversion of the river in Thessaly. They consider only the quantity of water diverted without reference to the destruction of the ecosystem of the river from its source in southern Pindos to the delta at the mouth of the Ionian Sea.
Acheloos shapes in the areas its waters run through for thousands of years a unique ecosystem with rich biodiversity in flora and fauna, which is directly dependent on its natural flow. It is a major factor in the quality of life of the communities on its banks and beyond the urban perimeter.
After the changes on the lower watercourse of Acheloos in the recent years with the creation of monstrous dams, waste disposal from small and large companies and silt, fertilizers and pesticides from industrialized agricultural production, the “boxing” of a great portion of it, ¨green¨ development of dams and the diversion of the upper reaches of the river, here they come again to complete the disaster. To give the final blow to the Acheloos, by escalating its looting
The capitalists, using as a trojan horse the ideology of “green” growth, continue their disastrous invasion, ignoring the impact on the natural environment and society. They count in euros the capital gain from the looting and prepare a new wave of attacks on nature and man.
In times of crisis of capitalism, political and economic bosses claim as a way-out the false ideology of green development, intending the continuation and deepening of the plundering of nature and society, the restructuring of state and economy under the tutelage of the EU and IMF
Although local initiatives are essential to the dynamics and evolution of this fight, their absence or decline would not mean a stop of the fight, especially since it is not a narrow local environmental issue but a central political issue.
This unprecedented attack that is already planned, will turn to disaster areas forests, mountains, lakes, seas, rivers across the country. The colonialism of capital on public land in every corner of the globe will wreak death and misery to local communities and the transnational bosses will be the ones to gain the wealth from this looting. On the one hand, the billions will accumulate and continue to be capitalized from multinational companies, while on the other hand society, immersed in the middle ages in matters of work, will produce in conditions of modern slavery all this wealth.
Today, the already existing diversion projects for Acheloos, whose completion has been stopped four times so far by the Council of State, is presented as works of “green” development. In essence, big construction companies pillage everything under the protection of the state like conquerors, giving their local fellow partners tidbits of the spoils and giving the local populations promises.
Here comes forth the contribution of the social movements and the importance of social struggle in defense of nature. Not expecting anything substantial from the institutional brokers, we are organizing from below the resistance and we are setting up our levees to stem the assault of state and capital in order to strengthen the ties of solidarity and camaraderie of those fighting and to synthesize our principles and our positions in the direction towards the comprehensive choice of breaking up with the power and antisocial requirements. Although local initiatives are essential to the dynamics and evolution of this fight, their absence or decline would not mean a stop of the fight, especially since it is not a narrow local environmental issue but a central political issue.
Understanding Acheloos as part of the natural world that was looted from the state and capital, common belief of those found from 2007 in Mesochora, was to intervene precisely where destructive activities evolve and contribute to the revival of the struggle against dams and the diversion of the river. In contrast, a logic that wants the fight to confine itself and move away from the point of dams and the diversion of the river where it was focused until now, we think it clearly constrains the fight’s potential,  becoming a disastrous choice, one step before admitting a defeat this thinking itself will lead us to.

The residents of Mesochora, since 1990 chose the dignified way of resistance, and it’s up to them to continue today. Against the local authority (mayors and prefects) and interests of the Public Electricity Company (DEI), the state and construction companies, but also beyond partisan and institutional logics that cultivate illusions – such as that the solution is the demand for the creation of a separate environment ministry – that lead to compromise, fatalism and resignation in the face of an imminent demise of the area.
From our side, seeking the radicalization, expansion and coordination of social struggle from below, we stand in solidarity alongside those who struggle collectively against the plundering of nature. And we consider our fighting presence in the area where the crime of the dams and the river diversion, as necessary and useful for the development and deployment of both the struggle to defend the Acheloos and local communities in its upper reaches, and for the protection of the natural world and society in its totality.
So, after a series of coordinated events and interventions throughout the year in Athens, Patras, Ioannina, Agrinio, Trikala, Karditsa, Larissa and other cities, we are once again for the fourth year on the banks of the Acheloos, in Mesochora in autonomous meeting for the fight.
Against the green development, the dams and the diversion of Acheloos
Against the looting of nature. Fight for Land and Freedom
Independent Meeting for the Fight
(Self-managed hangout, Agrinio / Comrades from Arta, Trikala / Initiative for the fight for Land and Freedom, from Strefi’s Hill, Athens)
Mesochora, Trikala Prefecture, 4-10 August 2010
The text in greek, spanish.

Terrorist Action and demonstrations Witnesses with hoods!

translated from http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=205938 Witnesses with hoods! By Christos Zervas 23.09.2010 http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=205938 The government which claims to be transparent enforces a system of “hooded” witnesses at trials for terrorism and organized crime. In the same clandestine conspiratorial way which left every political, social and Trade union activity open to criminal prosecution for terrorism, it now “legalizes” the testimonies of anonymous witnesses in the courts! According to new amendments to the secret Anti-Terrorism law, it is no longer compulsory for a witness to reveal his identity to the courtroom, even if it is asked by those directly affected, i.e. the accused! The former order, which has now been abolished, forced the court to demand that the identity of an anonymous witness be revealed if asked by the district attorney or one of the accused. With the secret Anti-Terrorism law the court, in which the the request to reveal a witness's identity is made, can give its consent either in favor or against. In other words, it is up to the discretion of judges to enforce the use of anonymous witnesses if they consider it necessary, as long as they somehow explain the reasoning behind this decision. Of course, the order which prohibits the sentencing of the accused with only the testimony of one anonymous witness remains in effect. However, that does not secure the rights of the defendants, who are exposed to the accusations of people who they do not know and therefore cannot refute their claims fully. In any case, judicial experience up till today has shown how even the suspicion of another piece of evidence can be combined with the statements of "ghost-witnesses" and lead to long jail terms. The judicial use of statements given by anonymous witnesses has been a constant demand of the American security services, as well as their European colleagues, who have pressured for testimony by “anonymous informants” (i.e. agents of the secret services!) to be considered proof. Within the same laws what has also changed is the established system for witness protection, as protected witnesses can now be moved outside Greece! The option of being moved to other countries has been added to the choices of protection (change of identity, moving from one's job, and change of residence). In addition, a new department has been formed which assumes responsibility for carrying out the measures of protection. It is determined by mutual agreement of the Ministers of Economics, Justice, Labour, Health, Education and the “Protection of the Citizen”. This orgy of secret changes to the Anti-Terrorism law, made during the holidays by the reduced summer section of Parliament, through which the basic rights of citizens are attacked, were made without M.P.s realizing their real scope. Certain points of the changes were not even mentioned in the accompanying essay which lists the reasoning behind the changes. The abolition of the order which secured that certain offenses, which aim at the protection of the democratic state or the application of basic individual, political and union rights, did not constitute terrorist activity, was carried out without any apparent reason or explanation. Even the arguments made to refute claims against the government, which the government spokesman G. Petalotis tried to articulate, characterizing as “baseless” things that had been written about Trade Unions, at the end of the day simply confirm the unquestionable reality. He was on another wavelength, trying to excuse the inexcusable; he said, among other things, that “there is nothing wrong with Trade Unionism” and that “the government respects the Greek people, the Greek citizen and the forms through which he expresses himself; it is not afraid of Trade Unionism, but seeks dialogue; the issue of negotiation is a major aspect of democracy.” But why has this so “transparent” government not negotiated these specific changes to the “Prevention of Terrorism" law in an open dialogue with its citizens, as they did with their other laws, but instead passed it secretly and conspiratorially, in the middle of the summer?

translation from http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=205592

By Christos Zervas 22.09.2010
http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=205592
During the summer holidays, secretly and without any particular explanation, the government completely removed the protective mechanisms within the previous Anti-Terrorism law, mechanisms which protected political and Trade union activity, even those including violence, from criminal charges of “terrorist acts”.
Simultaneously the law now punishes more severely (with 10 years imprisonment) anyone who gives “substantial” information to terrorist organizations to facilitate their work, or gives them material or “immaterial” support even if the “terrorist acts” were not finally carried out.
With these changes, the prosecuting authorities are basically given a free hand. In this way even minor offences (such as property damage, bodily damage, disruption of transport, etc) carried out by an organized team of demonstrators can be arbitrarily characterised as terrorist activity.
It is now sufficient, according to the legal definition of terrorism, to simply judge that the accused intend to seriously harm a country or an international organization, to seriously intimidate the populace, or to illegally force the state or an international organization into doing or not doing something.
But why did the government go ahead with the abolition of these protective mechanisms in such a hurry and so silently? Some legal experts reply that the timing is no coincidence, given the current critical economic situation and the conditions of social conflict, which many are anticipating. The government looks like it is taking measures in advance, they add.
On the other hand, government sources say that all the changes are in accordance with the Constitution.
What is most worrying, though, is that these serious changes, which concern basic rights and freedoms, were made by the summer section and not by the plenary session of Parliament.
The new regulation, article 187A of the Penal Code, included in the law for the ratification of conventions of the UN against organized crime, was passed at the end of August and was made public the day before yesterday.
This basic and secret alteration abolishes paragraph 8 of the previous article, according to which the carrying out of certain offenses (felonies and less serious offenses) did not constitute “terrorist activity” if they aimed towards the protection of the democratic state, if they constituted action in favor of freedom, or if they were aimed at the exercising of basic individual, political and Trade union freedoms, as set down in the Constitution and in the European Agreement on Human Rights.
This regulation existed in the preamble to the European decision and was suggested by the creator of the Anti-Terrorism law, Michalis Stathopoulos. It was the legal guarantee that neither political beliefs nor open political and Trade union activity would be prosecuted.
Even then, all organizations for the rights of individuals had expressed their fears that something like this might happen. In Greece, anyway, demonstrators have already been tried for participation in a terrorist organization, despite the existence of the older protective mechanism.
There is also a favorable change, which punishes those who participate in a terrorist organization which was set up for the purpose of committing only minor offenses with a penalty of 1-6 years. It is however necessary for something like that to be proved.
As for the threat of 10 year sentences to anyone who gives essential information to terrorists, Parliament's scientific committee expressed reservations, noting the problem of vagueness and an over-extended widening of what is defined as deserving punishment.