On February 14, the imprisoned comrade Polycarpos Georgiadis, accused of aggravated possession of weapons, as well as comrade M.T. and comrade E.M. are being tried on misdemeanour charges.
On September 23, 2020, the anti-terrorist police proceeded to arrest the comrade after an anonymous – of course – phone call and a search of a warehouse he keeps in Koukaki. The broad findings of this search (a quantity of explosives, detonators and bullets) would, under normal circumstances, constitute misdemeanours of simple possession of explosives and ammunition.
Without any further evidence, however, the charges were upgraded to felonys and were linked by the media to the actions of armed revolutionary organisations. Two important moments of this unfortunate connection were first the attempt to present a proclamation of the O.L.A. organization found on a usb stick of the comrade as an original, a scenario that came to light a few days later, and then the association of bullets found in the warehouse with actions of the organization in A. This scenario also runs up against the fact that the comrade was in prison at the time.
The scenario is well known: an anonymous phone call leads to the arrest of a militant, with a crudely prepared indictment and the media filling the monstrous gaps in the case with anti-terrorist hysteria. Our duty, also familiar: to stand by the comrade, putting the brakes on another operation to eliminate the enemy within.
Microphone Gathering, 11/2 Thessaloniki 19:00
Rally-March, 12/02, 20:00, Exarchia Square
Solidarity call , 14/02, 09:00, Court of Appeal in Athens
