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Athens, Greece: Cop scum shoot 3 times during confrontation outside Athens University of Economics & Business (ASOEE)

Posted on 2023/04/06 by darknights

05/04/2023

COPS FIRED 3 times in the air on Patision | NO injuries

A cop who was passing with a police car in the descending street of Patision at around 12.30 pm, pulled out a gun when they were attacked with stones at the height of the ASOEE, aimed at people intimidatingly and then shot 3 times in the air.

No injuries, thankfully this time.

Barricades on Patision in both directions until a few hours ago and now riot police at the scene.

Murderers!

Kalashnikov shots at the security forces!

Source: athens.indymedia

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Athens, Burning Barricade, Cop Attack, Greece, MAT, Patission Street, Riot, riot police, Shooting, «μπάτσοι γουρούνια δολοφόνοι», ΑΣΟΕΕ (Athens University of Economics and Business), κουκουλοφόροι [hooded ones], Ριπές από καλάσνικοφ στα σώματα ασφαλείας! [Kalashnikov shots at the security forces!]

Athens, Greece: Summary of actions in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (from 20/10/2022) Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2023/04/04 - 2023/04/04 by darknights

In the past few days, following the actions on the case of the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who is on hunger strike until the end of October 20, 2022, the “Open Assembly of Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito” held: Hanging of a banner in foreign language at the Propylaea, hanging of a banner at the gate of the NTUA on Patision and painting inside the building and intervention at the punk live for the legal costs of the 4 imprisoned comrades Fotis D. , Iasona R., Panos V., Lambrou V.

Statement by Alfredo Cospito at the hearing to review the preventive/pre-trial measures for Operation Sibilla

Continuation of the Open Assembly in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito – Tuesday 4 April, 18:30, ASOEE & The text of the Assembly [IT + EN]

Call for an open assembly to give a response commensurate with the seriousness of the situation regarding the hunger strike (since 20/10/2022) of anarchist Alfredo Cospito by comrades in Italy

ANTI-STATE GATHERING – MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO

SUNDAY 9 APRIL, 13:00, ISAP THESSIO STATION

“Let the will of destruction never again become a creator.

Nothing needs to be built.

Let action speak, right now, right away.”

Freedom to the anarchist hunger striker (from 10/20/22) ALFREDO COSPITO

Fire at 41bis and all forms of confinement

Open Assembly of Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Summary of actions in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (from 20/10/2022) Alfredo Cospito” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Athens, Banner Drop, Fotis D., Graffiti, Greece, Hunger Strike, Iasona R, Intervention, Lambros B., Open Assembly of Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Panagiotis B., Punk Live, Solidarity Demo

Napoli + Pozzuoli, Italy: Raids on houses of comrades in connection to a 270 bis investigation into attacks in solidarity with revolutionary prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

On March 28, two houses, one in Napoli and one in Pozzuoli, were raided and four comrades were taken to the police station, in connection with a 270 bis investigation (anti-terrorist association), which was officialized in May 2022 following several house-searches.

Although the investigation is still ongoing, one comrade was placed under preventive arrest, accused of an arson attack against the Greek consulate in 2021. The prosecution contextualizes this attack within the campaign in solidarity with revolutionary Greek prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, who at the time was on hunger strike.

The comrade has now been taken to the Secondigliano prison and is placed in the AS2 section (high security unit), while the three other comrades were released. According to the case’s files, the timing of the arrest was influenced by the relentless solidarity actions with Alfredo Cospito, an anarchist prisoner currently on hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

This operation is part of a witch hunt that wants to frame anarchists as a public enemy to be eliminated. In the context of the countless actions in solidarity with Alfredo in Italy and abroad, we clearly see this repressive blow as part of the state’s attempt is to stifle every and any spark of rebellion.

When faced with repression, our solidarity will never stop.

Assembly against prisons and repression

To write to Zac:

Marco Marino

c.c. di secondigliano

via Roma verso Scampia 350

80144 Napoli (Na)

Italy

For those who wish to support to Zac, anarchist prisoner locked up in Secondigliano following the repressive operation in Napoli and Pozzuoli on March 28, 2023, contributions can be sent here:

Luca D’Esposito

IBAN IT07V3608105138299544199741

BIC PPAYITR1XXX

Posted in Social ControlTagged 'Subversive Association', 270bis, 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, arson attack, Arson attack on Greek Consulate 2021, AS2 (High Security 2), Cop Raid, Dimitris Koufontinas, Greece, Hunger Strike, Italy, Life Imprisonment, Marco Marino 'Zac', Naples, Pozzuoli, Repression, Secondigliano prison

Athens, Greece: 40 windows smashed of Italian insurance company Generali’s new HQ in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2023/03/26 by darknights

On Saturday night 18/3 we chose to attack the Italian company Generali, one of the largest insurance companies in Europe. The insurance company sells the illusion of security which we broke when we smashed with hammers about 40 windows of their new headquarters on Syngrou Avenue. The action was done as a minimal sign of solidarity with the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito who is on hunger strike since 20/10/22 against the barbaric 41 bis prison regime and the sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of appeal. The struggle that Alfredo is fighting is a struggle for all.

Explosion and fire in 41 bis

Fight until the last prison is ended

Solidarity with all the fighting prisoners around the world

Attack on the state, capital and all forms of power

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Athens, Generali, Generali HQ Athens, Greece, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Window Smashing

Greece: The day that anger swept the streets of Athens for the 57 dead of the train crash (March 8, 2023)

Posted on 2023/03/16 - 2023/03/16 by darknights

Greece: a country in mourning, still in shock, following the death of 57 people in a train crash at Tempe, the deadliest in the country and one of the worst in Europe.

8 days later the dead passengers, mainly young students, are still being buried and people continue to protest against the crime executed by the neoliberal government and a private company, that chose to sacrifice passenger safety for profit, resulting in a passenger service train, carrying more than 350 people, ramming into a freight train, just before midnight on Tuesday 28 February 2023, after they ended up on the same track mainly due to the lack of technical equipment and the incompetence of the stationmaster, causing the front carriages to burst into flames.

Ongoing revelations of staff shortages and substandard equipment have revealed the dangerous state of the privatized rail network. It was indeed an accident waiting to happen.

For 8 days, almost all protests in Athens have been brutally attacked by the so-called “mourning” riot police, under the orders of Mitsotakis government that pretends to care, while they even close down all metro stations around a protest’s starting point to deter people from joining them. Such is the government’s sincerity and repentance for the blood of 57 people on their hands. Regardless, the protest of March 8th was one of the biggest protests in Athens during the last decade, with more than 80,000 people taking part.

Just a few months before the parliamentary elections, the situation in Greece is unpredictable in a place where there is no justice, nor peace.

While the government still tries to evade assuming full responsibility for the train disaster, a general nationwide strike and new protests have been announced for Thursday, 16 March 2023.

Posted in GeneralTagged Athens, General Strike, Greece, Riot, Tempi Train Crash 2023

Greece: One-day hunger strike in response to the internationalist call for action in solidarity with Marcelo Villarroel

Posted on 2023/03/16 by darknights

One-day hunger strike in response to the internationalist call for action in solidarity with Marcelo Villarroel

“These are times of clarity and definitions”

“I am from the war, a classic son of the working class, of the city growing up in a population where the code of struggle was and is for survival in the always precarious material conditions, but with strong bonds of communal solidarity as a life practice… Respect for the mapu ñuke, the search for a harmonious relationship with the planet, the recovery of spaces and territories and their clean control to build an autonomous path with values that oppose the bourgeois way of teaching and the ideology of the great God of Capital, perpetuated with blood and fire by the Chilean national state, and all its death apparatus, are aspects that make it impossible for me to ignore the bonds with and deep feelings about the struggle for the liberation of wallmapu.

These are times of clarity and definitions. Autonomous, anti-authoritarian and anarchist subversive practices in this part of the world cannot ignore the territoriality of the conflict, nor can they remain only in general and tepid solidarity….

The mode of confrontation is our inalienable choice in prison and on the street, we are not victims of circumstances, but conscious warriors of a fight to the death for the Total Liberation of peoples, individuals and communities. This is where all our efforts are made and renewed. “1

On March 15, Mapuche anarchist comrade Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda passed 15 years of captivity. The decisions of the Chilean state want him to serve 13 more years in prison, according to its junta laws (from Pinochet). Continue reading “Greece: One-day hunger strike in response to the internationalist call for action in solidarity with Marcelo Villarroel” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, Afrin, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Augusto Pinochet, Chile, Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis, Domokos Prison, Emilio Berkhoff Jerez, Greece, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Kurdish Struggle, Kurdistan, Mapuche, Marcelo Villarroel Sepulveda, Military Junta, NATO, Paris Commune, Revolutionary Self-Defense, Security Case, Turkey

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for placing of explosive device at a branch of Eurobank by Cell ‘Lambros Fountas’

Posted on 2023/03/14 by darknights

On March 9, just before the day changed to 10, the day on which 13 years ago in Dafni, the short revolutionary Lambros Fountas was killed in an exchange of fire with cops, we placed a device1 in a branch of Eurobank on Papanikoli Street in Halandri.

Walking alongside or in the turmoil of the days we decided to make our statement as combatants of the social war. Apart from the timeless and undeniable symbolism of attacking a bank, we cannot fail to mention the fact that this bank, apart from being located in one of the most central nodes of Halandri, is only two blocks away from the police station of the area.

Because memory is not rubbish and the struggle against oblivion is a struggle for freedom we attempted to contribute to the aggravation of the social war. A war that the state is fighting, either indifferently, as in the case of Tempi, or by targeting, as in the case of the poverty-stricken Fragoulis and Sampanis2. Of course, in this field our own side could not fail to count losses, such as that of our comrade and member of the revolutionary organisation EA [Επαναστατικός Αγώνας, Revolutionary Struggle] , Lambros Fountas.

In no way can the Tempi incident be equated with the military choice of the state to attack the oppressed in general, let alone the deeply ideological choice of eliminating a strategic enemy of the state who fell bleeding from the fire of the cop killers in a preparatory action of the organisation. The comrade with his actions gave flesh and bones to the slogan “Fear must change sides” which is the political issue of our days, accepting and accepting the all-out attack of the state and capital, we are called to change the correlations and fight back.

To make fear change sides

To honour the memory of our own dead by attacking every symbol of sovereignty. To attack state and capitalist targets by taking revenge for every moment of oppression for our own fallen in the social war, a war that is raging and will continue to rage and can only be won.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER ALFREDO COSPITO

STRENGTH TO THE CAPTURED COMRADES

Listen how the cop’s voice trembles tonight…

Cell “LAMBROS FOUNTAS”

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Notes

  1. The media scum are claiming it was a ‘Γκαζάκι’ Gazaki, when camping stove gas cannisters are used alongside petrol & even sometimes a firecracker plus a rudementary delayed fuse. Even sometimes smaller versions are thrown during riots in Greece, like an explosive molotov.

  2. Two Roma shot & killed by the Dias motorcycle cops.
Posted in Direct ActionTagged "Fear must change sides", 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Athens, Bank Attack, Cell 'Lambros Fountas', cop killing, DIAS, Eurobank, Explosive Attack, Greece, Harandri, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Kostas Fragoulis, Lambros Fountas, Nikos Sampanis, Revolutionary Struggle, Roma, Tempi Train Crash 2023, Γκαζάκι

Greece: Honor forever to the comrade Lambros Fountas

Posted on 2023/03/10 - 2023/03/14 by darknights

Honor forever to the comrade Lambros Fountas

For us, his comrades in the Revolutionary Struggle, he is not dead. He is in our blood and in the air we breathe as fighters. He is in our aims and objectives. He is one with our organization and our struggle. He is present every day, every moment.

HE IS ALIVE

13 years from the day that comrade L. Fountas was murdered by a state guard’s gun during a preparatory action of the Revolutionary Struggle.

The comrade fell fighting against the imposition of the monumental policies. He fell resisting the deadly social derailment for which the state and capital are responsible.

Honor forever to comrade Lambros Fountas

Pola Roupa, C wing Thebes prison

Nikos Maziotis, D wing Domokos prison

Source: athens.indymedia

Posted in GeneralTagged Greece, Lambros Fountas, Nikos Maziotis, Pola Roupa, Revolutionary Struggle

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary attack on a retired cop’s house by ‘Andreas Baader Cell’

Posted on 2023/02/26 - 2023/02/26 by darknights

We take responsibility for the incendiary attack on the house of retired cop Fotis Theodoros in Kaisariani, at 5 Manoliassas Street. We were very pleased to learn in the following days that a second retired cop lived in the same building.

The reason for this attack was the state murder of Kostas Fragoulis by the uniformed garbage of the DIAS unit. Once again, the agents of the state apparatus murder in cold blood, but this time, as last year with Nikos Sampanis, the race of the victim became the main issue in the political and social arena. We as anarchists do not need to analyse our position, it is clear. But we ought to recall that this is not a random incident but a manifestation of the wider war that is being waged unabated by the state and capitalism against the oppressed of this world and especially against those who dare to question their domination. We take a stand in this war and declare that we will walk through your homes and over your dead bodies.

<<Now it is not fitting that the flame of candles over a young grave but that whole states should be lit>> C.C.F. [Conspiracy of Cells of Fire] ( for the murder of A. Grigoropoulos)

Shortly after the murder of Kostas Fragoulis, the police released a text to all cops, explaining how to be careful and how to avoid or manage attacks either while on duty or in their homes. The attacks in Sygrou, Patras, Zografou and now here have shown once again how important our organization is and how willpower humiliates the stupid plans of the state. Here we have to mention that the target was chosen by chance and only because of its location, that is, within a stone’s throw from the YMET headquarters (riot cop unit) and apparently we approached-we left-we fled and nobody bothered us.

The 2nd main reason for the attack ( that is, apart from the targeting of the cops anyway) was, as the comrades in the attack in Zografou put it, the attack on the doctrine of “law and order” with which the New Democracy has been doing politics from the beginning and hopes to be transformed again into thousands of votes by their stooges. We don’t want to say anything else the rest is well known and well said, we prefer to put it into practice. Let the results of our actions speak!

Strength and solidarity to comrade Alfredo Cospito who is on hunger strike and the Italian state chooses to murder him.

Solidarity to all political prisoners.

Andreas Baader Cell

Source: athens.indymedia

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 'Law and Order', Andreas Baader Cell, Athens, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Cop Attack, cop killing, DIAS, Fotis Theodoras, Greece, Incendiary Attack, Kaisariani, Kostas Fragoulis, Nikos Sampanis, Roma, Zografou, Νέα Δημοκρατία Ν.Δ. (New Democracy)

Patras, Greece: Attack on the offices of the Patriotic Union of Emfietzoglou

Posted on 2023/02/24 - 2023/02/24 by darknights

On the afternoon of Tuesday 21 February, after the end of the anti-war march that took place in the centre of Patras on the occasion of the visit of the American Secretary of State, we attacked the open offices of the fascist group “Patriotic Union” of the bankrupt* Prodromos Emfietzoglou, who has been involved in dozens of scandals since the Olympic Games and has now decided to turn to patriotism in order to continue receiving a crumb from the state budget, but also to confirm Samuel Johnson’s old saying that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels”.

In a city that retains indelible in its political history the class, social, anti-fascist struggles of the past and in which the activity of the fascist and parastatal mechanisms has left irreparable scars since the period of the Temponeras assassination2, it should be made clear and unambiguous in all directions and to all would-be imitators of Emfietzoglou that not an inch of land will be given to the enemies of freedom.

The existence of offices of a nationalist party in the central square of Patras, and anywhere else, cannot be tolerated and there has certainly been some misunderstanding on the part of Emfietzoglou with this choice. He would do well to pack up and leave…

Fascists, nationalists and other misfits, forget what you knew. This is Patras! We’re gonna kick your asses!

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Notes

1 μπαταχτσή is the original word used in Greek, which is not completly translatable exactly as ‘bankrupt’. It is originally from the Turkish batakçi = bankrupt. It means a person or some one who gains from the state, especially the money from taxes, normally from corruption.

2 Nikos Temponeras was a secondary school mathematics teacher, a left-wing member of the Labour Anti-imperialist Front (EAM), who was assissinated by fascists/right wingers (even a member of New Democracy party) attempting to break up the occupation of a Patras school during the student demonstrations of 1990-91. Once again this murder amongst others in Greece’s modern history shows the complicity between racism, fascism and nationalism, that the crossover between the right wing New Democracy party (that is in power now), that members normally come from a fascist background, is a kind of requirement to be part of the party. This continues the well known slogan in Greece that ‘The Junta never ended!’

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Direct ActionTagged Anti-Fascism, Corruption, Fascism, Fascist Office Attack, Greece, Nationalism, Neo-fascists, Nikos Temponeras, Olympic Games Greece 2004, Patras, Patriotic Union, Prodromos Emfietzoglou

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