Lately the state has been intensifying social misery and repression while at the same time sharpening class barriers, making survival a luxury. It is trying to impose total social control over every aspect of our lives, thus reinforcing its counterinsurgency policy. One of the social groups that experience this control to the greatest extent is the prisoners, being a subject completely cut off and stigmatized from the rest of society, thus becoming the perfect breeding ground for the harshest state policies.
Thus, on 28/10 the new penal code is passed which, among other things, includes the tightening of the conditions of leave and conditional dismissal, tightening of disciplinary procedures, extending the detention time of those accused of criminal-terrorist organizations, robberies or drugs, reintroducing type C prisons as ” Maximum Security Prisons ” and the prohibition of transfer to rural prisons. In this way, the regime of exclusion experienced by political prisoners is deepened while at the same time it is extended to other categories of crimes, increasing the time of incarceration of those who fall into this category. Immediately after the passing of the bill, mobilizations against it started in many prisons throughout Greece, with the participation of many criminal and political prisoners.
Thanos Chatziangelou actively participated in the above mobilizations and was quickly targeted by the state, culminating in his vindictive transfer to Nigrita prison on 19/12, as happened a few days later with Kostas Dimalexis who was transferred to Trikala prison. The purpose of these transfers is to remove the militants, who have not stopped opposing their oppressors, from the communities of struggle they had created. Thanos’ response was immediate, starting a hunger and thirst strike on 19/12 demanding the disclosure of the reason for his transfer and his return to Korydallos prison.
With this choice he puts his body and his life as a last barricade in front of the repressive methods of the state, thus undermining the regime of exception in which he finds himself.
The state, for its part, remains intransigent and ruthless towards the oppressed and those who oppose its policies. It often chooses to take the role of the killer either through the pushback of migrants at land and water borders, or through industrial accidents, or through the degradation of public health and most recently through the cold-blooded murder of 16-year-old Kostas Fragoulis by a uniformed scum of the DI.AS team. All this is supported at the judicial and communication level by a mechanism of gathering and distorting information, resulting in social apathy and legitimization of these events.
Thus, in the case of Thanos, the state chooses the policy of extermination since he is now on his 17th day of hunger and thirst strike and his health is in a critical condition without any development regarding his demands. At the same time, since 31/12 there is a written order from the public prosecutor for the forced feeding and hydration of the anarchist militant, trying to put a violent end to the struggle he has chosen and violating his autonomy and self-determination. Force-feeding is torture, which is recognised even by the rotten institutions of the EU, and can be a cause of serious physical and mental harm. Nevertheless, so far, in all the attempts of compulsory hydration/feeding that have been made, Thanos has resisted vigorously, showing once again his intransigent attitude and his commitment to the struggle he has chosen.
As a minimal sign of solidarity in the morning of 4/1 we attacked with hammers by breaking the facades of 4 stores (Eurobank, Attica bank, Vicko, Bioiatric) at the junction of Lagada and Stratou streets.
VICTORY IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE HUNGER/THIRST STRIKE PRISONER ANARCHIST THANOS CHATZIANGELOU
NO THOUGHT FOR COMPULSORY FORCE FEEDING
POWER TO THE HUNGER STRIKERS OF SOLIDARITY G. MICHAILIDIS, K. DIMALEXIS, I. RODOPULOS
SOLIDARITY WITH THE 11 TURKISH FIGHTERS ON HUNGER STRIKE
STRENGTH TO THE ANARCHIST PRISONER OF HUNGER STRIKE A. COSPITO
VICTORY IN THE PRISONERS’ STRUGGLE AGAINST THE NEW PENAL CODE
EXPLOSION AND FIRE IN ALL CELLS
Anarchists
Source: athens.indymedia