On New Year’s Eve, in a suite of the luxurious MET Hotel, an anthropomorphic gang of golden boys, including the businessman in the catering industry Manos Papadopoulos (owner of Achillion) and the owners of Coca-cola in Greece Evagoras and Vassilis Leventis, bind the 24-year-old Georgia Bika and after drugging her, proceed to gang rape her. From the first moment she finds the strength and power to stand on her feet and with determination not to remain silent, denouncing the incident. One of the rapists (Vassilis Leventis) is arrested and released, with him a few hours later posing provocatively on social media holding the newspaper that records his exploits on the cover. Into the scene of decadence enters yet another extra of misery, the defense attorney for one of the rapists. Theophilos Alexopoulos, full of audacity, unfolds his manhood behind his professional capacity, finding Georgia Bika in the police station and verbally attacking her in order to intimidate her and prevent her from taking legal action.
This ease with which some scoundrels move, overwhelmed by the feeling of impunity that stems simultaneously from the privileges of patriarchy and the security they enjoy through the social and class status they enjoy, has always been a characteristic that has armed our thinking, our will but above all our conscious duty of revenge. We take responsibility for the incendiary attack with a low-powered device on the law office of pimp and rapist supporter Theophilos Alexopoulos at 74 Egnatia Street in Thessaloniki on the morning of 31 January.
The events through the perseverance and determination of Georgia, which stood alone against the wall of the Patriarchy, occupy the public sphere where the existence of a whole pimping ring that drugs and promotes young girls for the tastes and manliness of the economic elite is methodically revealed. A circuit that has the backing of the uniformed rapists and the bourgeois justice system to wash their faces based on their economic and social status and the political-economic interests they represent in both the legal economy and the black underground economy through the drug, arms, protection and trafficking mafias.
The case of Georgia is just another drop in the river of disgust that has been flooding everyday life for the past year. Dozens of femicides and incidents of abuse, rape and violation, make up a social reality where violence against women is a new normal. Child rapists in churches under God’s blessing, gang rapes in schools, abuse and murder of wives, daughters, girlfriends show that this society is choked with Levites hiding their manhood behind some balls to! Well, these balls will be cut off once and for all along with the laughs, the safe comments and the provocative trash reports (like the partner of the mayor of Argos-Mykines, Christos Angelopoulos) who find a platform on social media and on the scaremongers to say their Kafriki* wit, questioning the experience and the complaints of the victims of incidents of sexist violence.
We have the bourgeois elite who treat us as pawns on the chessboard of their appetites: they step on our bodies sometimes to crush them in the temples and sweatshops of class exploitation and sometimes to rape them in suites, yachts and limousines. We have the uniformed rapists who clean up the lot by abetting the legal body trade-we’ve called for the heads of 21 of them anyway-and we intend to take them all one by one. We have the civil justice complex washing away anything that escapes the wing of the uniformed mafia: judges turning a blind eye, coroners conducting incomplete and vague checks and tests, investigators releasing rapists for lack of evidence. Finally, we have the telecannibals who build the other side’s alibi on a bunch of “whys!” that should be on the victim, not the perpetrator. Why did she go to the party? Why did she dress like that? Why was she walking around alone? Why? Why? Why? Why? And as if all this wasn’t enough, we have some miasma like Alexopoulos who dares to talk about a mud war on his face and a regime of terror. We will respond succinctly that …in a world full of Levites like you, you have no reason to sleep easy. Every time you bring to mind your behaviour towards Georgia, you will be overwhelmed by the same insecurity that the next time you wake up, you might find us in the living room of your house. And there we’ll see what explanations you have to give us. As far as the statements of alarmism by a resident of the same building are concerned, we will suffice to answer with a question: we carried out a fully controlled, targeted action against a specific person with specific responsibilities, in which we did not even need the intervention of third parties to avoid any danger. Are you okay with your conscience, letting your children grow up in a building where rapists (like the other resident and person involved in the same case) and their defenders are walking around?
In a social condition built on the absoluteness of the contracts of patriarchy, where everything is structured in an androgynous orientation from language to sometimes even looks and the simplest gestures, we have to identify our contradictions and fight them day by day. Know when to be silent and when to shout. To stand with every victim of rape culture and gender oppression by transcending the narrow boundaries of legality and protest. Civil justice has every reason to flush out rapists who are a structural element and an outgrowth of the system it defends and protects. Resistance to gender violence must be a condition of war – to be waged in the same ruthless terms that are reflected on the field of revolutionary war against all forms of power and inequality. In this war, we will also give our soul to defend the loss of every sister lost to every Levantine man’s manhood. We have already lost too much to be content with mere protests. Revolutionary terrorism will be the nail in the beast’s heart to make the fear change sides.
Cops, Judges, Levite Pimps you deserve a bullet and a suite in the Intensive Care Unit.
No woman alone-no woman less.
Direct Action Cells – Anarchist Action Organization
Source: athens.indymedia
* κάφρος, Greek slang for one who acts without regard to the feelings and/or annoyance of others. Uncivilized, unbeliever.