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Greece: Thanos Chatziangelou – On the misery of repression towards my family circle

Posted on 2024/06/06 - 2024/06/06 by darknights

We once declared that the first thing to die in war is the truth. Today, along with the truth, morality accompanies death. In war, as painful as it is to realize the necessity of your existence, there are rules. Those rules are once again being broken by my pack of persecutors.

I spent almost two and a half years as a prisoner in their cells of democracy. In hooded interrogation offices, in the corridors and halls of the inquisition, in cages and concrete tombs. And in all these years not a single moment has passed from my mind to bargain my political identity with what it carries as a legacy on it. Today I am back on the streets with a set of restrictions but my conscience is clear for what I have done.

The prison door closed behind me, but not the chapter of revenge. On June 4, a team of bailiffs went to my parents’ home in Volos to announce that due to my personal debts to the tax authorities, my father’s motorbike, which is in my name, is being auctioned. The debts concern accrued administrative fines from cases of economic repression such as refusal to enlist, fines from the curfew during the pandemic period, court costs of my previous court cases, etc., debts that I have consciously chosen not to pay, refusing the individualized administrative face of repression that has been generalized over the last 10 years.

My issue is not the goods we own and the sanctity of property, but the audacity and lack of morality of a repression that regularly turns on my family because it cannot bend myself. A repression that binds a gift from me to my father, sowing fear and blackmail in my family environment. A repression that in the past (both before and during my captivity) has regularly harassed them with stalking, approaches and solicitations, “friendly” chats and neighborhood interrogations about my profile and daily life.

So about the war, let me remind you that, in the historical record, no battle at its end revealed casualties in only one of the two sides.

Thanos Chatziangelou

6 June 2024
Prison Society

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Note

Anarchist Thanos Chaztiangelou has been released since 24th May 2024. Thanos was arrested along with two other comrades Panagiotis Kalaitzis & Georgia Voulgari for an incendiary attack at the Foundation for National and Religious Reflection in the Ano Polis area of Thessaloniki and were later charged with membership of ‘Anarchist Action Organisation‘. Thanos took full responsibility for the attack.

Genoa, Italy: Tattoo Circus Benefit prigionieri e prigioniere/Tattoo Circus Prisoner benefit

Posted on 2024/06/06 by darknights

8 e 9 giugno
Tattoo Circus Benefit prigionieri e prigioniere

sabato 8:

dalle 11: apertura ed inizio tattoo

ore 17: discussione per contestualizzare la nuova spinta estrattivista nell attuale scenario di guerra

a seguire: cena e musica con Il tenebroso dal cascinotto – No Chappi?Bourgeois!

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domenica 9:

dalle 11: apertura ed inizio tattoo

pranzo

ore 17: presentazione dell’opuscolo “Ca Foscari per la guerra” del collettivo Sumud da Venezia dibattito sulla repressione e la militarizzazione delle nostre città e università

alla Ex Latteria Occupata
Stradone Sant’Agostino
Centro storico
Genova

8 and 9 June Tattoo Circus Prisoners benefit

Saturday 8:

from 11am: opening and tattoo start

5pm: discussion to contextualize the new extractivist push in the current war scenario

followed by: dinner and music with Il tenebroso dal cascinotto – No Chappi?Bourgeois!

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Sunday 9:

from 11am: opening and tattoo start

lunch

5pm: presentation of the brochure “Ca Foscari for war” by the Sumud collective from Venice, debate on the repression and militarization of our cities and universities

at the Ex Occupied Dairy, Stradone Sant’Agostino, Old Town, Genoa

Treviso, Italy: Bugs. Even at the home of the parents …

Posted on 2024/05/31 by darknights

In mid -April, in the Treviso area, a bug in the kitchen of the parents of our partner (of the Trentino anarchist environment) was accidentally found. The gadget was connected to the refrigerator power outlet, and is made up of microphone, two antennas and SIM card. In these times of social and technological control over the whole society, it is not surprising, but equally pissed off, that the special attentions reserved by cops to anarchists can also expand to all those who surround us, family members and pets understood.

And then these gentlemen say that, if we have it with them, it is for “ideological” reasons …

Source: La Nemesi

Italy: Demonstration following the arrests of 3 May (Genoa, 31 May 2024)

Posted on 2024/05/31 by darknights

On Friday 3 May eight people were arrested in front of Ex Latteria Occupata with the accusations of aggravated resistance and injuries and for one of the people also outraged and refusal to provide general information. Those who were there that evening is well aware how power works. He knows how absurd the reactions of the cops, complaints and requests of the public prosecutor are. Currently all the defendants have precautionary measures: seven of them have daily signatures and one signatures, the obligation to stay and the night return. A few days ago the news arrived that the prosecutor again requires prison for everything. Evidently we try to give a legal justification to a disproportionate reaction of the cops to a moment of normal anger, which can be shared by anyone every day the militarization and gentrification of this city lives, increasingly invaded by puppets in uniform. Since we do not recognize courts nor divided our answer is always the same: to go to the street and to pour our anger against those who try to suffocate every dissent and all existence that does not conform to a showcase thrown to the mass tourism & sold off by the businessmen who have recently risen.

On May 31, see you in Piazza della Commenda at 18:00 in solidarity with the arrested.

Genoa, Italy: Benefit per le compane arrestate il 4 Maggio – 1 Giugno, H 21:00

Posted on 2024/05/31 by darknights

DN Note

From: Radio Onda D’urto

Repression: Eight anarchists arrested of Ex Latteria Occupata in Genoa

On the night between Friday and Saturday 8 people were violently arrested by the carabinieri in front of Ex Latteria Occupata (the former dairy occupation) of Stradone Sant’Agostino in Genoa with accusations that include resistance to public officials, aggravated injuries and damage. The eight arrested were transferred to two different barracks in the area, to Marassi and Pontedecimo. About twenty demonstrators gathered as a sign of solidarity towards the arrested in front of the barracks, dissolving only in the early hours of the morning.

In a press release the anarchists of the Ex Latteria Occupata write “We go down to the street alongside Ema, Anais, Edo, Paolo, Michele, Jack, Lea and Davide. Against the militarization of the cities made of both baton and taser and more totalizing forms, cameras and artificial intelligence. The same technologies they design in universities build in Leonardo, devouring resources and which we see employed on all war fronts “.

New York, U$A: Eat it, Eric Adams

Posted on 2024/05/27 by darknights

Seems like they don’t want this to get out, but… four nights ago we set an NYPD bus on fire in Brooklyn as a peaceful protest against the cops for attacking anti-genocide demonstrators and their repression of protestors of Cop City (a dystopian plague of a project attempting to emerge everywhere, including New Jersey).

The NYPD are violent suffocators of the people’s voice and will. They are terrorizers of the homeless in our streets, and are in concert with the genocidal IDF, who train them to better butcher our freedom.

They do it all with no consequences in their future and no fear in their faces–we can change that with fire. There are cop cars and genocide-funding businesses all over. From Cop Country to Gaza, GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!

VIVA TORT!

AVENGE BAY RIDGE!

Source: https://neversleep.noblogs.org/

Athens, Greece: On an international day of action in solidarity with the arrested comrade D.Klette and comrades E.Staub and B.Garweg, who are persecuted as members of the RAF

Posted on 2024/05/07 by darknights

On Sunday, 14/4, responding to the call of the International Red Aid on an international day of action in solidarity with the arrested comrade D.Klette and comrades E.Staub and B.Garweg, who are persecuted as members of the RAF, we held a solidarity gathering outside the German embassy. The gathering lasted about an hour, with the comrades that participated shouting slogans. The banner was opened on Loukianou Street and leaflets were distributed.

The text of the intervention:

On February 26, 2024, after 34 years of living illegally, Daniela Klette was arrested, accused of participating in the Red Army Faction (RAF), as well as for a series of bank robberies after the dissolution of the organization in 1998. At the same time, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has launched a manhunt across Germany for Ernst Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg. Ernst Volker Staub had been imprisoned as a member of the RAF in the 1980s and had participated in the organization’s hunger strike in German prisons in 1984.

After his release in 1988, German authorities in early 1990 issued arrest warrants for Staub, Garweg, and Klette, due to which all three went into hiding. The warrants are based on DNA samples and connect the comrades with the armed attack on the U.S. embassy in Bonn in February 1991 and the bombing attack and destruction of the under-construction Weiterstadt prison in March 1993. After the dissolution of the organization in March 1998, all three continued to live in hiding, and law enforcement authorities continued to search for them, linking them again through DNA and fingerprints to robberies of money transports and banks in various parts of Germany. Information about how the authorities reached Klette’s arrest are unclear, as the police themselves do not clearly state how they tracked her down. It is rumored that they collaborated with journalists from the investigative site Bellingcat, who, through an artificial intelligence program, identified old photos of Klette’s arrests with current photos of her on social media, as well as an anonymous tip from an informant in November 2023.

The German state continues its relentless pursuit of those who participated or are accused of participating in the organization, as if 26 years have not passed since the dissolution of the RAF. The message is clear: the state will never forget those who resist, rebel, and revolt. Prosecutions therefore aim beyond the capture of the three, to disciplining and terrorizing those who resist today, those inspired by the struggle waged by the RAF in the heart of the beast in previous decades. In the case of the three persecuted comrades, we see another campaign of terrorism and slander against the organization and the solidarity movement.

This campaign is nothing new, as for decades the German state, in close cooperation with the establishment media, has been trying desperately to dissolve what they call the “myth of the RAF,” which is nothing but the social and political legitimization of the organizations of the competitive movement of European metropolises, something that is alive and well today, as evidenced by the fact that accused members have been untraceable for three decades. Today’s reality, moreover, proves that things would be better if the global wave of rebellion, of which the RAF was a part, had succeeded. In a situation where European states are militarizing, political power becomes increasingly reactionary, societies are impoverished, and Western imperialism once again shows its teeth, bloodthirsty in Gaza, the struggles waged inside and outside prisons in European metropolises become relevant as ever.

WHOEVER FORGETS THE PRISONERS OF WAR FORGETS THE WAR ITSELF

FREEDOM TO CAPTURED COMRADE DANIELA KLETTE

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PERSECUTED COMRADES ERNST VOLKER STAUB AND BURKHARD GARWEG

Solidarity assembly with the imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted militants

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

$hile: Gendarmerie wants compañero Francisco Solar to serve his sentence in an exceptional maximum security regime April 22, 2024

Posted on 2024/05/02 by darknights

After the 86-year sentence against the anarchist comrade Francisco Solar was ratified and became final, the gendarmerie made a new maneuver in the comrade’s intrapenitentiary situation. After being held in Maximum Security Module 2 of the Rancagua prison, what would have been appropriate would have been his transfer to High Security Module 1 as a condemned prisoner along with the rest of the anarchist and subversive comrades. But this time seeking to deepen the legal revenge the comrade is taken to a floor in the same maximum security module 2 to serve his sentence in an exceptional regime of punishment and isolation.

Solidarity and complicity with those who attack the powerful!

Let us fight against the life imprisonment and solitary confinement of the anarchist comrade Francisco Solar!

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Chile: Incendiary outburst at Instituto Nacional against repression in high schools

Posted on 2024/05/02 by darknights

May 1st, 2024

On April 16, hooded students of the Instituto Nacional confronted with Molotovs against the presence of riot cops, responding to the harassment and internal repression that they have suffered lately and in particular to the events occurred on Friday, April 12, where a group of students, after going out to demonstrate, officials of the establishment closed the access gate. At that time, some students tried to open the gate to protect themselves from the cop attack, to which the officials responded again by closing it. In that moment of struggle, between pepper spray and other chemicals, a student was seriously injured in the left index finger, having to be taken to a health care facility and end up with the amputation of the distal part of the finger.

Below are some photos:

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Italy: Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino sentenced to 23 and 17 years in prison

Posted on 2024/04/30 by darknights

From: No 41 bis- international mobilisation

“The sentences of 23 years and 17 years and 9 months of imprisonment to the anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino are final. The Court of Cassation confirms the sentence bis of the Court of Appeal of Turin. The requests of the defense and of the prosecution of Turin were rejected, and they insisted to the end on obtaining life imprisonment. Rage and love for our comrades! With the practices of which they are accused! Alfredo out since 41 bis!”

Thus communicated the comrades from Italy the final sentences imposed on Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in what was the trial of the Scripta Manent case, which sought to blame both comrades for “political massacre”, based on the action against the Carabinieri school of Fossano.

During the trial at the Court of Cassation in Rome, an appeal regarding the mitigating factors in the conviction for “political massacre” was reviewed, finally reconfirming the sentences already established in June 2023, after the long hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito against 41 bis, which lasted 182 days. In this way, both comrades remain in prison and under the same isolation measures.

It should be noted that during the early morning of April 22 the DIGOS of Turin “carried out 19 precautionary measures (3 house arrests, 1 prohibition of residence and 15 obligations of residence and daily signature) in the framework of the so-called Operation City related to the events of the march of March 4, 2023 in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito”, this as part of a series of repressive intimidation against those who mobilized in support of the comrade.

Despite the persecution and the continued imprisonment of Anna and Alfredo, the signs of solidarity continue, strengthening them from the other side of the wall.

Source: La Zarzamora

Via: Informativo Anarquista