Comrade Haris Mantzouridis has been a prisoner of the State and its mechanisms for 4 months. On 13 October, uniformed masked men of the ELAS kidnapped him from his house in front of his family and took him to the GADA (police HQ). There he is accused of involvement in a robbery of a safe deposit box in Zografou in 2018 with the only evidence being an “orphan” DNA sample found in adjacent premises after the suggestion that an “anonymous citizen” seems to have made to the cops.
The use of DNA as evidence of guilt while scientifically perverse and false is used extensively by the State and its repressive mechanisms for the hostage-taking and entrapment of militants. At the same time, the existence of an “anonymous phone call” clearly shows the orchestrated effort of the State mechanism to frame the comrade.
The State crime and the vindictiveness towards Charis due to his long-time participation in the anarchist space continues and goes beyond all limits as while he has applied for release due to his serious mental state of health, the prison prosecutor has prosecuted him for false self-harm with the purpose of attempting to escape, sending him to the disciplinary court. At the moment, the comrade is being held in the psychiatric hospital of Korydallos prison with conditions there further aggravating his strained mental health.
The brutal violence that our comrade has been subjected to for months cannot be separated from the coordinated attack of the State and capital on the lower economic classes and those who resist it.
The increases in the cost of basic social goods (electricity – water – housing), the dismantling and devaluation of the Ε.Σ.Υ( Ministry for Health and Social Solidarity) the privatisation of public spaces and services, the degrading conditions of detention in Greek prisons and psychiatric hellholes as well as the “concentration camps” for migrants/refugees, the military and procedural fortification of the State against those who oppose it, are weaving a strategy aimed at breaking down all class and collective ties and the reinforcing of the social base, so that neoliberal policies can be implemented unhindered and capitalist barbarism can be consolidated.
For these reasons, during the three days of 14 to 16 January, we attacked:
the ΔΕΗ (Public Power Corporation) (Island Production Directorate) on Syngrou AVE.
the Police of the Municipality of Athens in Kypseli,
the DIO of Cholargos, – myMarket in N. Ionia,
2 ATMs in the area of Neos Kosmos,
ATMs of National Bank in Pangrati,
ATM of Eurobank in Elliniko.
During the attacks, fliers were thrown:
Resistance with all means to capitalist barbarism
Free access to health-electricity-water for all
Wage slavery is terrorism – no peace with the bosses
Workers’ accidents and bullets in the back of the head, we live war every day here
Solidarity and immediate release of comrade Charis Mantzouridis
