We are not living in the era of the junta, but we are living under the junta of our time. In recent years, and even more so in the last six years, the criminal organization of New Democracy has been ruling the country with the tactics of a monarchy and an authoritarian regime. Amid political scandals and state crimes, it “exploits” security to sell fear to the people. Its main argument in its attempt to gather a few votes is prisons and the harshest repression. In the country’s ostensibly “correctional” institutions and in the otherwise blind and independent justice system that decides who will become an inmate and who will not, their criteria are not evidence of guilt but ideological position, wallet size, skin color, party connections, and the privileged clique to which some belong.
It is clear that Greek courts are anything but incorruptible. Every day, hundreds of trials are held in the country with the aim of repressing and intimidating citizens. For the majority of people, exhausting laws, mass detentions, and illogical sentences have made conditions in the country’s prisons unbearable and inhumane, culminating in the New Democracy party’s repressive resolutions, such as the new penal code and the abolition of all the acquired rights of the state . The way this machine is greased with corruption and bribery, i.e., with big-name lawyers and state visas, to make the obvious happen, such as the finalization of a decision or the timely conduct of a second-instance trial. Furthermore, the ungreased seats do not recognize any mitigating circumstances for the defendants, nor any presumption of innocence. In contrast to the lackeys who form the party backbone of the government of the day, the “law” of impunity applies, with examples that are well known to everyone, but which we cannot fail to mention. The crime in Tempi is the largest criminal organization that has ever existed in the country. The OPEKEPE scandal*, Siemens, and Mitsotakis’ buddies Lignadis and Filippidis, rapists with misdemeanors who enjoy their perverted freedom.
The modern hellholes that are called correctional facilities are warehouses for souls, where thousands of people are crammed together in miserable conditions. There are many problems that require immediate solutions. We will mention some of the most important ones. Overcrowding: inside the walls, daily life is a difficult struggle for survival; whether in cells or in wards, the number of inmates far exceeds the human limit. Health: this is one of the most vital issues that a prisoner has to deal with, as they experience first-hand the decline and indifference of the state. There is a shortage of permanent doctors and medicines, and prisoners with communicable diseases, heart conditions, the elderly, and people with disabilities are crammed into the same wings without any special treatment or care. Shortages of medicines and the failure to transport them immediately to hospitals add to the brutal daily routine. Leave: the limit on leave is becoming increasingly scarce, with the result that prisoners are only entitled to leave at the end of their sentence. This practice is vindictive in nature and in no way rehabilitative. Administrative support: bureaucracy, staff shortages, the incompetence of employees in legal matters, and their indifference are a daily problem, leading to the impoverishment of prisoners. This, combined with the filth, the neglect of the buildings and, of course, the disappearance of funds, they add up to a huge humanitarian time bomb in all the country’s prisons, more powerful than the one we put in the house of the torturer Kostas Varsamis.
Kostas Varsamis, a senior torturer and prison guard, is the father figure of correctional officers, whose sole aim is the vindictive torture of prisoners. It is no coincidence that governments and politicians come and go, while he remains in his position. His authoritarian mindset, indifference, and goal of taking revenge on prisoners are characteristics that find favor with state scoundrels and opposition from all prisoners. The tactics he uses and the way he acts contribute decisively to the torture of prisoners. The countless disciplinary measures he generously dishes out for the slightest thing, the prohibitions on material goods. The deaths of prisoners in disciplinary cells, the cold, the miserable food, the lack of open visiting hours, the loudspeakers that constantly disturb the mental health of prisoners are the daily tactics of a torturer who in the past used to beat prisoners with bats until they fainted. He tries to pass on the same mentality in a newer version to his employees, whom he treats as tools. They are made to believe that they are superior to the prisoners and that they can have absolute power over them. It is no coincidence that his circle consists of the worst scum who work scattered throughout the country’s correctional facilities and in senior administrative positions. It is obvious that we will not mention other names because we may have planned visits to their homes and elsewhere. Those who follow and accept the views and tactics of the torturer Varsamis, and therefore the criminal policy implemented by New Democracy through this type of person, are against us and are our target.
Finally, we want to emphasize that prisoners are normal people and not just numbers behind bars; they are never alone and abandoned in the hands of the state! We chose this particular scumbag to start a series of new attacks on directors, chief guards, employees, judicial officials, and agencies related to laws and prisons. Prisons are boiling over; it is time to put an end to the impoverishment and the repressive mechanism with attacks, riots, strikes, and every form of struggle inside and outside prisons.
P.S. Cops, journalists, columnists, and other loudmouths, keep writing and telling these funny stories and the axe will fall hard on you too… Responsibility for the attack is claimed by the armed organization Sangre Negra [Black Blood].
Source: athens.indymedia
DN Note
* OPEKEPE/ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ – Greek Payment Authority of Common Agricultural Policy (C.A.P.) Aid Schemes. The scandal involves the 3 billion euros donated each year from the EU, which were channeled by a corrupt network that involved inflating the amount of agriculture there was, one example is claiming Crete has 4 million sheep, more than the whole of Greece combined! Subsidies were allegedly handed out based on fictitious declarations of farmland and livestock. No effective controls were done. No site checks. No satellite data used. Just political favors disguised as development policy, such as vote buying, rewarding of allies, even penalising of dissenters. The foundations of democracy and capitalism at its best.
