On Thursday, 12/12/24, approximately 40 comrades from different cities, gathered outside the Kassavetia prison to support our comrade K.K., who is imprisoned in this particular “correctional” facility.

The aim was for Dinos K. on his 18th birthday and being a prisoner of the social war, not to feel alone, not to feel that our solidarity, our practical political/material/moral and psychological support for him, will not accompany him  UNTIL FREEDOM
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(Athens) Update from the gathering at Korydallos prison Thu. 12/12
Today, Thursday 12/12 in the afternoon, a gathering was held at Korydallos prison against mandatory DNA collection, for which an order had been given a few days before, but also in solidarity with our comrades who were about to be subjected to this torture process.
The gathering remained for a while at the basketball courts opposite the male prison then headed opposite the women’s prison, where we heard the imprisoned comrades. Slogans were shouted and fliers were thrown.

text given out:

COMPULSORY DNA COLLECTION IS TORTURE

On 31/10/24, after a device exploded in an apartment in Ampelokipi, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation. Our anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, ended up severely injured in the “Evangelismos” Hospital. The well-known witch hunt followed, resulting in the arrests of comrade Dimitris, anarchist comrade Dimitra Z., anarchist comrade N. Romanou and A.K.

Comrade Marianna was hospitalised in critical condition for the next 15 days undergoing surgeries and constantly guarded by uniformed garbage, turning her every private moment into a spectacle. Her transfer just one day after undergoing surgery to the Korydallos women’s prison where there is no hospital, as well as her stay there without any medical treatment for her serious medical injuries to this day, show the vindictiveness of the state towards those who resist.

Furthermore, in the first hours after the explosion, while the life of the comrade was still in danger and she was not conscious enough to consent, the anti-terrorist police ordered the medical staff to take a blood sample for DNA analysis. Due to the irregularity of this order, the interrogator once again demands the collection of DNA from Marianna, as well as from the other detained comrades, in order to legalise the procedure.

DNA has been used by the state throughout history to intimidate and suppress movements. In courtrooms, a series of prosecutions of the anarchist space have been based entirely on DNA identification as the only and indisputable evidence. However, DNA proves to be an unreliable scientific tool. The sample being examined is such a small part of human DNA that it cannot be representative, since the DNA of an individual can be identified in the laboratory with that of several individuals who share a part of it. Furthermore, DNA as a transferable element cannot in any way prove the contact of the individual with any object. The state apparatus, using this unreliable evidence while at the same time cooking up results in the laboratories of the WEU, creates impressions and plays political games o the backs of our comrades. With that in mind, no activist can know what new conspiracy they might find themselves in due to their political identity, actions, and friendships. But what every activist knows is that if the cops want your DNA, they will do anything to get it with the blessing of civil justice.

The process of compulsory DNA collection is an upgrade in the arsenal of the prosecution authorities who now – with the continuous authoritarianisation of the criminal codes and the codes of criminal procedure – have the right to do what they have always done anyway and continue to do violently, irregularly and stealthily. Extract compulsory samples of genetic material from defendants for whom there are serious indications of guilt for serious offences. And they can do this using any means available to them. The legislation, while giving unlimited power to the prosecution authorities on the body of the accused, hypocritically indicates that this process must be carried out with respect for the dignity and health of the accused. What respect for health and dignity was observed when violence was exercised on the multi-traumatised comrade Marianna, who to this day faces serious health problems to which the authorities are indifferent and which they do not hesitate to exacerbate in order to continue to weave their counter-revolutionary repressive plan? The anarchist comrade Marianna is not alone and has her political conscience intact – and as a first priority. She refuses, under the most difficult circumstances, to become a prey to the appetites of the state machine, the violation of her dignity and the torture that constitutes the violent taking of her genetic material. She refuses and responds politically, vigorously, demonstrating the true face of domination and its mechanisms. Placing her own struggle in the common thread of struggles of dozens of fighters over the decades against the monster of state repression and its methods:

“No government agency, let alone the counter-terrorism agency, can intervene in our bodies by invading and demanding a part of ourselves. A part that it stores in DNA banks and uses as it pleases. Enriching its legal arsenal, the government, through the counter-terrorism agency, exploits unreliable DNA samples, reducing them to a basic incriminating element. Countless are the examples of activists who have been accused or even convicted with the sole element of a DNA sample. Countless, however, are the personal and collective struggles that have been waged for its abolition and non-violent collection.”

“What human dignity are you talking about? The one that ordered my blood to be drawn while I was unconscious? The one that ordered fingerprints to be taken while I was unconscious? The one that is now coming demanding that they intervene again in my body while I am injured and without adequate medical care? The one that was mocking my comrade’s parents by stating that he was not the second person found on Arcadia Street? Or this human dignity that gives you the authority to file indictments, to forge criminal cases, to arrest and imprison without any evidence?”

-Marianna M.

STANDING ALONGSIDE THE COMRADES WHO ARE BLACKMAILED FOR DNA COLLECTION

FINGERPRINTS, DNA AND TORTURE, THIS IS THE STATE’S REPRESSION

FORCED DNA COLLECTION IS TORTURE

HANDS OFF OUR COMRADES

FREEDOM TO  M.M., D.Z., D.  AND N.R.

KYRIAKOS FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

Solidarity Assembly for imprisoned, fugitive
and persecuted fighters