The State, No Room For Dissent.

 Your friendly cop on the street, Greek style?

 

      Since the recent election in Greece where the "New Democracy" Party gained power, the Greek state has moved rapidly to the right and joined that band of brutal authoritarian repressive regimes. All states will attempt to stifle dissent, some more savagely than others, and those most vociferous in their struggle against the injustice, inequality and corruption within the present system, will receive the harshest of treatment. At present the Greek state is in open battle against any voice or action of dissent and at the forefront of that brutal battle are anarchists, migrants and autonomous centres. The "New Democracy" Party has made it an open statement that it will crush all anarchists and there autonomous centres, putting then under the label of criminals and terrorists. So there is now a concerted effort to crush that avenue of resistance and dissent. The present police system in Greece was formed during the military junta era and were 90% ultra nationalists. When the junta was overthrown and the representative system formed, the police system was never reformed and today the majority of the police force are members of "New Dawn" the Greek fascist party. So they will do the state's bidding with relish and brutality.

This from Act For Freedom Now:

        After the solidarity gathering in Evelpidon on the 7th of December, I went to my second home in order to avoid going to my home in Ano Patissia. Usually, there is a cop bus parked right in front of the building entrance, so in order to enter the building I have to pass right in front of the MAT (riot police) unit there. They were there on the 7th too, but this time they spoke to me and by spoke I mean harassed verbally. They told me in English “We will send you in prison, like your friends, or we will make you disappear like your friend Dimitris (Ch.)“. I didn’t respond and I just entered the building.
It’s obvious to me that they’re trying to intimidate me in order to either repress myself or do something that will expose me and give them the reason to take me once and for all. Targeting me will not stop my presence in the movement and not my solidarity towards my comrades. What is not obvious to me is whether the threat was an initiative by the cop or an order. In any case, it’s an effort by the state to terrorize me.
Solidarity to comrade Dimitris Ch. and Vangelis St.
Abtin Parsa, 15/12/19
via: Athens Indymedia

More info on Abtin Parsa's situation:

        Days after being followed and days after my home in ano patissia was being watched by the anti-terrorist unit, I published a political statement that also includes a report about the events on 27/10/2019. https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1600684/
       Later, 09/11/2019, the anti-terrorist cops that were near my house started acting differently. At the same time, anti-terrorist unit repression against the movement became more severe, like arresting comrades with the accusation of being involved in the revolutionary organization “Revolutionary self-defense”.
       10/11/2019, 22:00 to 22:30, while I was going home, I saw many undercover cops around my home, more than usual in the past few weeks. I decided to not go home and publish immediately the information in indymedia athens about this event. https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1601003/
       11/11/2019, in the evening, while my flatmate and his friend were coming out of the building, 15 to 20 anti-terrorist cops stopped them. First, anti-terrorist cops handcuffed them, put them in the car and probably 30 minutes later the anti-terrorist cops entered my home with the key that they took from my flatmate. Anti-terrorist cops started searching the house. After that, they arrested my flatmate with the accusation of having a military knife that was found in our home.
      12/11/2019, my flatmate had a trial in the court of evelpidon, building 7, and he will have another court sometime soon (in one of the previouw updates that I published in indymedia Athens, I wrote that my flatmate got arrested because of a gun, but it was wrong information given to me by the lawyer and when days later I found my flatmate, he corrected me).
      After the raid of the anti-terrorist unit in my house, these things were missing:
1) all my legal papers that recognized me as a legal refugee in greece
2) personal things like a toothbrush, a pillow and some clothes
3) a laptop
4) some money
5) some political texts
6) a cell phone (not smartphone)
      I am an anarchist political refugee who has been imprisoned and tortured for 1 year and half in the secret prison of IRGC in iran. I was arrested at the age of 16, in 2014, in zarghan city in iran, accused of insulting the religion and with activity against the iranian regime. In 2016, I escaped from iran to greece. I was in the concentration camp of samos for 8 months, and during this period, I got the political asylum from the greek state. In 2017, I arrived in athens and since 2017 I am active in the local anarchist movement.
       The regime is trying to terrorize the movement but the regime should know that for those who have nothing left to lose, fear does not exist. The resistance will survive and the system will die because our will for freedom is stronger than its weapons and its cops. I will continue participating in the movement. If I get abducted by the anti-terrorist unit, I will immediately start hunger striking.
      Solidarity to comrades who got arrested or are wanted by the anti-terrorist unit.
Abtin Parsa 23/11/2019

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State Repression Continues.

        As the vindictive Greek state sticks to its inhumane policies, the life of Evi Statiri ebbs away. She is being held in prison simply because she is the relative of a prisoner. However, protests continue, but need all our support and solidarity. 

Poster reads:

FREEDOM FOR EVI STATIRI WHO CONDUCTS HUNGER STRIKE SINCE SEPTEMBER 14TH When the Power fail to make subversive prisoners bow down to them, they target their close and supportive environment, seeking to punish what goes beyond the polarity between innocence and guilt: solidarity.

      As of today, September 30th 2015, we participate in the mobilisation of prisoners throughout Greece (at the prisons of Trikala, Domokos, Grevena, and the women’s and men’s prisons of Koridallos in Athens) for the immediate RELEASE of Evi Statiri, wife of political prisoner-member of the Cells of Fire Gerasimos Tsakalos.
      Evi has already been admitted to the General State Hospital of Nikaia, having entered her 16th day on hunger strike.
     Solely responsible for her life are the justice minister — who enacted an amendment-scrap of paper for the cessation of prosecution against relatives of inmates, which nevertheless remains inactive — as well as the judicial council where the request for Evi’s release has been filed – who are procrastinating at the expense of her constantly deteriorating health.
      Until Evi is released from prison, we refuse the midday lock-up and count in our cells.
       Initiative of Political Prisoners
Koridallos Prisons Underground Annex [*]
September 30th 2015
        [*] basement in Koridallos women’s prison, a special high-security unit for men where those convicted as members of armed revolutionary organisations, including anarchist comrades, are being held separately from the general population of inmates

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The Ever Increasing State Repression.

A few moments to myself, so thought I would share this.

        From Spain to Mexico and across the globe, state surveillance comes down hard on anarchists and those connected to anarchist groups and spaces. In Spain they have Operation Pandora and Operation Piñata, here in the UK Bullingdon boy Cameron, jumping on the tragic killing of tourists in Tunisia, has spouted his mouth off about radicalism, stating that they will target those who do not want to take part in the democratic process of the country, that's a very wide circle. Also a rather ambiguous statement, since we don't have a democratic system in which to take part.  Every event of violence will be used as an excuse to increase state surveillance across the board, and to clamp down on any form of dissent. Not to sing from their handed out hymn sheet, will become ever more dangerous, a different opinion will be seen as radicalism and attempts will be made to silence that opinion. The term radicalism will be deliberately kept extremely vague, and used as a large catch all net. Of course we should take this as signs that the powerful pampered parasites feel threatened.

This from Contra Info:

-------On the other hand, we have the government’s efforts to qualify anarchism or “anarchic conduct” under the judicial classification of terrorism, applying severe charges and operating under maximum security parameters, only to withdraw the charges, with the argument that they lack sufficient evidence – but always leaving the open threat that “investigations continue.” Nonsensical investigations, plagued with arbitrary references to groups and individuals that exist in very different spaces.
This is all paralleled by police monitoring and surveillance of certain individuals in an attempt to intimidate them, as well as provocations against certain autonomous spaces.-------

Read the full article HERE:

Spanish democracy in action.

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