A DEMONSTRATION RALLY OF SOLIDARITY AND COUNTER-INFORMATION IN THE STATE NARRATIVE THAT WANTS OUR COMRADES BEHIND BARS

On 14/11/21 our comrades Fotis D. and Jason (Iasonas) R. did not stop at a checkpoint carried out by a DIAS team in the area of N. Faliro. Immediately afterwards a pursuit started against them by a vehicle without crossbars, which rammed them on the move risking fatal injury, then they were taken to the G.A.D.A central police headquarters in Athens . There, after compulsory fingerprinting and DNA sampling, they were charged with the attack on the Piraeus traffic police earlier that evening. With invalid evidence, namely, the spreading of false news, since they talked about a house-den and an explosives manufacturing plant, inaccurate statements of cops, which constantly fell into contradictions, it was decided to remand them in custody.

Nearly a year after the arrest of F.D. and I.R., with no trial date set and the case file still open, the investigator had room to implicate more people. On the morning of Tuesday 20/9/21 , State security cops, accompanied by a prosecutor, raided the house of comrades Panagiotis B. and Lambros B. After they were given a summons to appear for the case of the attack on the Piraeus Traffic Police, a house search was conducted, where personal belongings were seized. The comrades were arrested, detained at the GADA and subsequently released.

On 6/10/21, after interrogation in the Piraeus courts, they were remanded in custody once again on the pretext of criminalizing their comradeship and friendly relations with the already remanded for the same case, F.D. and I.R. Despite the many means at the disposal of the E.L.AS, (Greek police) having imprisonment and convictions as their aim, it resorts to the classic method of creating evidence. In particular, they choose to ‘identify’ (through video footage), simple and everyday clothing (for example, ‘cargo pants’). Our comrades are confronted with the following charges:

1. attempted homicide in a calm state of mind by association
2. arson with intent, which could endanger other people’s property and human life, with intent
3. explosion which could endanger property and human life
4. possession of a large quantity of explosives and incendiary materials
5. damage to property
6. insulting behaviour
7. threatening behaviour
8. insubordination
9. violence against officials

In its attempt to establish its dominance in the minds of the people in order to continue its existence and consequently those who feed it, the State has perfected ways of enforcing itself. Through a rigidly structured hierarchy protected by a strategy of repression, it has managed for centuries, indestructible throughout time, to exercise its monopoly of violence against the socially oppressed. But its aim in itself is not repression, but prevention, based on the instinct of fear that runs through it. It is on the basis of this prevention of sovereignty against those who it feels threaten it or potentially threaten it that one of its most basic mechanisms, the judicial legal system, was built to serve the State’s fear. A standard incriminating tactic is the use of DNA mix as evidence, which as has been proven by past cases is not sufficient, as it is scientifically unreliable. A striking recent example is the case of Comrade Charis Mantzouridis, who remained in custody with only evidence of anonymous phone calls from cops and a mixture of genetic material and was acquitted after 14 months. Nevertheless, it continues to base cases and prosecutions of militants on this means, as in the case of our comrade P.B.
Behind the façade of delivering justice, this well-structured system, instead of serving the purpose mentioned above, does business and builds careers on the backs of those “from below”. With exorbitant amounts of legal fees, lengthy trials and indifferent or predetermined tribunals. One way or another, the judicial system was presented with the decision to remand our comrades in custody, having arrived at this moment to deprive F.D. and I.R. of their freedom for almost 1.5 years and 6 months for Panagiotis B. and Lambros B. charging them for their defence and trial fees the sum of 27,000. An amount that may not make a profit from, but which certainly helps it to sustain itself.

So we are making known and inviting the people of the struggle on Saturday 29/4, at 13:00, at Korai Square in Piraeus, for a march of solidarity and counter-information against the State narrative that wants our comrades behind bars. In an area where as children they grew up, organized, got to know each other through their common political action, were arrested, taken into custody and at the beginning of May and are being tried by a joint jury in the Piraeus courts. But our reasons do not stop at the emotional connection with the region, but continue in a logic of decentralization of our action.

THE WORLD OF STRUGGLE IS NOT TERRIFIED
IRRECONCILABLE STRUGGLE UNTIL THE LAST PRISON IS TORN DOWN
DOWN YOUR HANDS OFF OUR COMRADES!
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

Assembly of solidarity with the 4 imprisoned comrades

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1624636/ Translated by Act for freedom now!