As Direct Action Cells we take responsibility for the incendiary attack on the home owned by the child rapist, pimp and member of the New Democracy party Elias Michos, and his ex-wife Elizabeth Lekka. In the early morning of 23/10, we placed a low-powered incendiary/explosive device at the entrance of their apartment building in the Attica area.
POLICE – JUSTICE – GOVERNMENT – MEDIA
An organised ring promoting and covering up pimps, rapists, child rapists, murderers and torturers – The cutting edge of the domestic capital mafia
“This is the practice and to whom it may please” – Demosthenes Pakos (police “unionist”)
For those who still insist on not understanding the systemic support and cover-up of police and fascist attacks, for those who still insist that the judiciary is neutral and independent of the domestic bourgeois elite and the whole mechanism of consolidating and monopolizing the violence it practices, for those who were not satisfied with the acquittal of the pimp and child rapist of the New Democracy, Nikos Georgiadis, the “special-friendly treatment” of the mafia boss Menios Fourthiotis, but also the full release on parole of the New Democracy’s Petros Lefkowitz for the serial rapes of his daughter since she was 11 years old, we would like to list only a few of the recent cases where the full complicity of the civil justice system with the scum who destroyed lives was proven. All this is already known, we are simply quoting it in a condensed form to make it absolutely visible that STATE AND CAPITAL VICTORY, VIOLATE AND KILL, that their very nature is exploitation, barbarism, devaluation of lives and the imposition of terror, and that every aspect of political and social life is class and value-determined. It is a SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING TERROR, VIOLENCE AND DEATH, with the corresponding mechanisms of communication management and laundering.
- Two years ago, after a solidarity meeting for those arrested during a march against the burning of garbage by Lafarge / AGET in Volos, the comrade Vassilis Maggos was arrested. The cops of the Magnesia Police Directorate torture him and, after covering their voracious violent appetites, throw him into the street. The blows were fatal for the comrade, who breathes his last breath on 13/7/2020. This state murder is still being covered up today by the state-judicial apparatus, as only three cops were indicted for the simple misdemeanour of “dangerous bodily harm”, while no names have been released, and now that the case is being tried, the “law and order enforcers” are committing violence against the people in solidarity who had gathered at the Volos courts.
- Last summer, the deafening case of the pimping and rape of a minor girl by her father and a cop at the Ilioupolis police station came to light, with the knowledge and the brutal cover-up of the other state agents of that department. The pimps, rapists and cover-ups are still circulating among us, the case was covered up and buried, until the next and the time after that when we will learn again about trafficking and (child) rape rings involving cops and “prominent” households.
- One year ago, on 22/10/2021, cops execute Nikos Sampanis in Perama, gunning him down with 36 bullets after a chase due to racial profiling, and defying orders from the operations centre not to follow the stolen vehicle. The cops claimed they were on “defense,” which of course was debunked by video footage and eyewitnesses. The follow-up is predictable. Immediately all seven were acquitted, returned to work as normal and are walking among us.
- This summer, on 28/6, Epaminondas Korkoneas, the cop who cold-bloodedly executed the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos on that bloody 6th of December ’08, is finally released from prison. Korkoneas received the extenuating circumstance of “prior lawful life”, and after serving his short term in Greek prisons, he is now walking among us. This follows the release of his accomplice, Vasilios Saraliotis, who was reinstated in the police force and even received compensation for his lost wages.
- Then, on 1/7, the serial rapist and abuser, Petros Filippidis, was released from prison after being hospitalised for a “light ischemic episode” and after paying the sum of 20,000 euros as bail. He is now walking normally among us.
- On 4/7, Athanasios Hortarias, the real estate agent who tortured and murdered Zack Kostopoulos / Zackie Oh! in the jewelry store in Gladstonos, on 21/9/2018, is released from prison. It seems he served his sentence for “grievous bodily harm”, so he is now walking among us as well. House arrest had also been imposed on the jeweller-killer, Spyridon Dimopoulos, while the latest development is the full acquittal by the Police Disciplinary Board for the four cops who handcuffed and abused Zack who was silenced.
- On the same day, 4/7, the Leventis are acquitted for the gang rape of Georgia Bika in a hotel in Thessaloniki, following a proposal by prosecutor Kyriaki Kliabas, and despite all the evidence proving their guilt. One does not fall from the clouds, knowing that the Leventis are scions of the well-known family that owns most of the share capital for the multinational company Coca Cola 3E. And they are now moving among us.
- This is followed on 13/7 by the acquittal of the humiliated ‘blue boy’, Dimitris Lignadis, for two of the rapes for which he was found guilty, while he was sentenced for two other rapes to 12 years’ suspended imprisonment. After paying a bail of 30000 euros, at noon on 14/7, Lignadis was finally released from prison and is now moving among us.
- Also, on 14/7, Aristides Kokkinos and Nikolaos Soutoglou, the two cops convicted for the torture of Christos Chronopoulos at Kallithea police station in 2007, were released from prison. They beat him so badly that they caused him permanent total physical disability. Of course, they received the mitigating circumstances of ‘previous lawful life’ and ‘subsequent good behaviour’, so they are now moving normally among us.
- On 29/7, Christos Sergiopoulos, the fascist who murdered in January 2013 the Pakistani worker Shahzat Loukman in Petralona, while he was going to work in the morning, is released from prison. After 6 years and 4 months in prison, he is now walking among us.
- And today, we see the favorable treatment of the two subhumans of the DIAS who gang-raped the 19-year-old girl at the police station of Omonia, who will have support and cover-up even if they are convicted, since, as already said, “the workload at the police station of Omonia is heavy, and it is logical that there will be some distraction of the children”. The two scoundrels are free on parole, their names are withheld, and the whole media mob is out to wash them out and bury the case, just like with the Ilioupolis Police Station. We do not forget, just as we do not forget any of the horrible scenes of humiliation caused by the scum of the Omonia Police Station. History is being written, and sooner or later the bill will be paid.
Justice is neither impartial nor blind
IT IS CLASS
The list goes on and on, the expressions of systemic violence as well as the incidents of cover-up are countless. Many of them may never come to light. But by quoting at least the above, we want to demonstrate that the state-capitalist system is absolutely intertwined and dependent on its legal and repressive mechanisms. It is a power complex that gives the feeling of impunity and absolute freedom to every cop, every fascist and every ’eminent, peaceful and decent citizen’ to carry out their outrages openly, and this is precisely what it wants to perpetuate. The sooner we understand that these scum are flesh and blood from the exploitative-class system which is robbing us of life and dignity, the sooner we will understand that only an organised revolutionary-radical movement can stand as a barrier to these outrages, only the resilience of the insurrectionary people can strike terror into the scum of the bourgeois-democratic regime and bring us closer to overcoming class society, patriarchy and omnipresent brutality.
Time for organisation and action
As we have said dozens of times in recent years, our enemies are not an abstract complex of relationships and meanings. They are real people, they move in the real world, they have real homes, vehicles and bodies. The only thing that separates us from a visit that will shatter their sense of omnipotence is whether we take a little time to research them, and a little determination and will to conquer the dignity and material power of a truly dangerous movement with real potential to overthrow the capitalist regime and its cultural superstructure.
Serial rape, prostitution, torture, economic exploitation of a 12 year old girl, targeting by the media mouthpieces that set up a stakeout outside the girl’s house, disorienting public opinion by trying to put the focus on the girl’s mother as the main culprit for the horrors the child was living: They demonstrate the thread of the tradition of the domestic bourgeoisie and its right-wing opportunists, from the times when the Khitans raped, tortured and executed the poor and resisters, and when the black marketeers speculated on the poverty and misery of war, with the arrogance and arrogance of a sense of eternal impunity and omnipotence. They demonstrate the values and the deeper essence of these anthropomorphic reptiles who, behind the facade of the doctrine of “Law and Order” and “Fatherland-Religion-Family”, hide their dark appetites and how they really see the world around them, namely as a field for brutal imposition, exploitation, bleeding and dissolution.
The “illustrious” Elias Michos, of Panagiotis, owner of the shop “OIKO-EPILOGES MICHOS” in Kolonos, is deep in the swamp of the domestic right, with hundreds of thousands of euros in direct contracts for supplies of products from his shop to various ministries under ND governments for decades. He was, moreover, until recently a leading member of the local organization of the ND in Kolonos. He organised election rallies at his home, while he regularly took photos with cops, priests and political figures of the right-wing scene, from Samaras to Plevris, and from Patoulis to Papanikos. Religious, nationalist, family man and boss, he covered up well the rottenness and disgrace that he hid inside himself, while he had set up the corresponding organized circuit with corresponding members of the “proud and illustrious” national body, thus ensuring their apparent immunity to lewdly and serially rape the body and soul of a 12-year-old child, and who knows how many others.
But his wife, Elizabeth Lekka, is also an “illustrious, very nice lady” (as the televangelist Balaskas described her), faithful to the values of ” Fatherland-Religion-Family”. She is a member of the municipal party ” Athina Psila” of the mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, appointed as a district councillor in the 4th municipal community of Athens, but also a member of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Infant School. She tried to bribe the mother of the 12-year-old girl so as not to publicly and irreparably expose her enviable family. While expediting the divorce proceedings with Michos (with whom, she claims, she had long been separated and merely cohabiting), just days before the scandal broke, and while she already knew what was going to happen.
Let’s put an end to victimisation
We expect no solution from the civil justice system, no name from the 213 on the list, no conviction of a cop, politician, rapist or judge. These are all their own children, they are an organized circle, a mafia clique that seeks our final crackdown, and that fully launders and supports the garbage they have on the loose. It’s time we put them in our crosshairs too, to answer their blows, to prove that they are vulnerable little men with only one purpose in life, to outdo their humiliation and their hammy personality by oppressing and destroying the lives of people who are objectively in a more vulnerable and weaker position than they are.
We have exhausted the examples of state arbitrariness. How much more do we need? Do we not understand that the scum who bloody marches and rallies, who humiliate and torture people in police stations, who hide behind fascist and church hate speech, have such a dark psyche that they are capable of anything? Don’t we understand that when a person founds his existence on the brute imposition and degradation of others, it is a natural consequence to practice all kinds and levels of violence, making it structural and systematic? The excuses have run dry. It is now obvious that we are ruled by a shameless mafia, which does not hesitate to trample on any “civic decency” in order to get oil for the scandals that break out repeatedly (wiretapping of political opponents, drug trafficking cartels, trafficking and child rape rings, direct assignments, criminal records and so much more). We have no choice but to stand on our feet and face this mafia head on, asserting that THIS IS NOT THE END OF HISTORY, WE ARE STILL HERE, not as victims, not as desperate cries and fireworks, not as defeated and with our backs against the wall, but as an active historical force fighting with all means to overthrow it.
Peripateticism, inarticulate cries and victimisation are the hallmark of the humiliated parrots of the state-suppressive apparatus. Worn-out tele-personas like Stavros Balaskas and Vassilis Doumas, under the wings of the stoned demagogues, show us every day, on every possible occasion, how a man who wants to live his life and his time with his head held high should avoid becoming one.
As far as the child rapists of the girl in Sepolia are concerned, but also all the would-be child rapists who of course “did not know the age”, who are “honest family men and respectable citizens”, “illustrious”, as Balaskas called the dregs of Michos: Sooner or later your names will be known one by one. Every Ioannis Sofianides, Anastasios Lazaridis, Nikolaos Kontaris and Efthimios Clothakis will lose sleep. Because there are people out here who have no hope and no expectations of the favours that bourgeois justice will bestow on them. Our only hope and only expectation is the militant and radical struggle that will bring terror into their homes, that will make fear change sides, so that revolutionary perspective and rebellious dignity can flourish.
WE HAVE A WAR
The longer it takes us to take an active position, the longer this war will continue to be waged one-sidedly, without an opponent. The rape of children, the rape of women, torture, femicide, fascist and paramilitary murders, all these are products of a social system that alienates us, alienates us from solidarity and empathy for our fellow man, makes us faceless machines of production and consumption of products, insensitive and lifeless components of the capitalist mega-machine, who do not understand or care what happens to those around them, what cloud of misery and destruction shadows the world from end to end. By recovering our humanity and our tenderness, we will understand more deeply the mechanisms that systematize violence and make it the monopoly of the ruling class, but also the mechanisms that make us cannibals, that make us want to find the weakest and impose ourselves on them.
The social war is raging, and the contribution of a movement that wants to call itself subversive and revolutionary must be substantial and multilevel. It behooves us to build structures and human relations that present our value gap with the capitalist world. To demonstrate that it is possible not to relate to people on the basis of competition, suspicion, let alone imposition and oppression. Against the world of organised rot and horror, there is another world, of solidarity, empathy and mutual respect, which must guard its ideals, organise itself to bleed for them, and keep its eyes fixed on the sky of the definitive uprooting of capitalism and its social construction from history.
To strengthen the militant formations of today
10, 100, 1000 DIRECT ACTION CELLS
Solidarity with the 11 Turkish communist militants who are imprisoned in the Greek hellholes and have been on hunger strike since 7/10, demanding a fair trial and an end to the regime of exception against them.
Solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who started a hunger strike on 20/10 in Italian prisons to end the 41 bis revenge regime imposed on him since 5/5/2022. Solidarity also to the anarchist comrade Juan Sorroche who also started a hunger strike on 25/10, standing actively by Alfredo Cospito’s side.
We send our wholehearted solidarity to the four comrades imprisoned for the case of the incendiary attack on the Piraeus Traffic Police on 14/11/2021.
Always at the side of our imprisoned comrades in every corner of the world – PRACTICAL INTERNATIONALIST SOLIDARITY
Direct Action Cells
Source: athens.indymedia