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Translated by Act for freedom now!
31/12/24
31/10 OUR BLOOD THEIR PERSECUTIONS
Two months ago, on 31/10 at Arcadia Street in Ampelokipi,
a crack in time was created when anarchist comrade Kyriakos
Xymitiris loses his life after an explosion. Anarchist comrade
Marianna is seriously injured and a “witch hunt” starts so that
they meet the requirements to set up the charges based on
the 187A law.
Learning the news about the facts in Ampelokipi and considering
possible that the repressive – media mechanisms of the state would
attempt to connect me to the case through the keys of the
apartment on Arcadia Street which I handed over to the comrades some days earlier, I returned to Greece from abroad where I live the
last years. Returning on Monday 4/11, they waited for me at the
airport at the landing point 15-20 anti-terrorist police officers,
seized my personal belongings and afterwards they transferred me
to the 13th floor of GADA . Initially they announced to me
my admission which later turned into arrest based on a
inflated and without proof set of charges about setting up and
participating in terrorist organization, explosion and possession,
construction and supply of explosives. Interrogator Mrs. Georgia
Kioulepoglou with the public prosecutor after the interrogative proceedings decided, with non-existent proof, my imprisonment. Two days earlier with the same loose charges comrade Dimitris was also imprisoned.
On those days, comrade Marianna was hospitalized in isolation,
guarded on a twenty-four hour basis. Not even three days from the moment she recovered her senses and with her health extremely
overburdened by the wounds and surgeries she was submitted to,
was called for questioning, which under these circumstances is
pure torture. As if that weren’t enough, her torturers from the
first day of her transfer to Evangelismos hospital taking advantage of being under anesthesia, they ordered the extraction of her
fingerprints and blood sample for DNA analysis without her consent.
During her hospitalization there was not allowed any moment of
privacy, with cops insisting on the doors to remain open
at all times even during medical procedures or her biological needs,
denying her the right to basic health care and decency.
They came to the point of giving her discharge from the hospital
just one day after the last surgery and with still open
wounds to carry her to Korydallos prisons, without even having
ensured that she gets all her medication for three whole days.
With a predetermined strategy, anti-terrorism service sets up a
‘convenient’ (for them always) set of charges in an attempt to satisfy
all the requirements of our prosecution based on 187A. Personally,
I was charged with joining a terrorist organization on the occasion of
giving the keys to my comrades about the accommodation of
friends of theirs from abroad. A gesture which had not been
done by an anarchist would not impose any prosecution. The way that 187A has been written is so vague that can be stretched and
applied to anyone and whenever needed. A law that
gets epidemic proportions in order to create a tank of
suspects through criminalization of comrade and personal relationships.
At the same time, various terror-scenarios based on ridiculous findings are unfolded in front of our eyes, with the latest being the arrest of comrade Nikos Romanos and A.K. based on unclear sets of fingerprints in a moving/mobile object.
State mechanisms show once more their vengefulness by targeting the “usual suspects”. Its about a law used as a super weapon of incrimination and repression that attempts to disseminate fear and isolation.
But beyond the judicial part, our prosecution cannot be interpreted
without taking into account the wider political context. At
international level, the West, through colonial policy, conducts war in the Middle East overturning places of geopolitical interest into military US and NATO bases. Standing by the side of Israel,
boosting it financially and militarily, launches war on
struggling Palestine. Involved in the Russian-Ukrainian war with the
goal of Ukraine’s integration into NATO to enhance its position on the world map. And of course Greece is no exception. Having
choosen to spend exorbitant amounts of money on military supplies
increases the inflation that afflicts the social basis. With prices that have brought the lower class into poverty and depravity. With the fear of unemployment, with a non-existent public health system and the majority entangled in a perpetual struggle for survival while sinking into misery.
Thus, within a general destabilization frame the state has incorporated in its agenda the doctrine of law and order in order to prevent any social unrest that could be created because of the
universal dissatisfaction.
With a strategy of disorientation from the domestic and global
situation, the media from the first moment started a news bombardment about our case by spreading a climate of terror and hysteria. For days, and not respecting the death of our comrade, started our humiliation. They are the same who remain silent about the genocide of Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemen, about the state murder of Tempi where they promoted politicians and journalists who were talking about ‘necessary sacrifice’ to improve the railroad network, about the state murder of migrants in Pylos, about dozens of murders against women and in supporting and
covering rapists and scandals.
In addition to the repressive strategies of the state, our case
has a burden a lot more important than any terror-scenario. The gap from the loss of comrade and friend Kyriakos is huge. The
comrade was a simple man in a rare way, firm in his beliefs and
in the struggle. A tireless spirit, present at almost all assemblies,
protests, mobilizations. A man who was not only interested in
connecting various struggles such as those against racism, fascism,
patriarchy, colonialism, prisons but also bringing together people and groups within the movement constantly highlighting
all those that united us against repression and depravity. Above
everything was a comrade for whom the concepts of comradeship and solidarity were of practical importance. His intelligent mind, his high level of empathy and the analysis and understanding of the conditions within we are all fighting, promoted our struggles. Taking risks small and big and perceiving the responsibilities that are appropriate to each, dedicated his life to the Revolutionary Case. He was an irreplaceable part of the struggle.
So if something is certain is that the name of comrade Kyriakos
Xymitiris will remain engraved in memory by inspiring everyone
who is fighting for a world of freedom, equality and
solidarity. Struggling in and out of the walls against every
exploitation, oppression and isolation. Who envision a different
tomorrow. Until a smile of satisfaction meets the echo of
class and social liberation.
They engraved the road map to life,
They paved it with gemstones and their young hearts.
Lifted their hearts like stones on their palms,
charcoal and flame,
And with them, they burned the beast of the road,
Now is the time to show courage and power,
Their voice was heard loudly everywhere,
resonated everywhere.
And there was courage and power there.
Died upright,
burning on the road,
shining like stars,
Their lips stuck on the lips of life.
-Fadwa Tuqan
FOREVER HONOR TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS
STATE, CAPITAL, MEDIA THE ONLY TERRORISTS
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
FREEDOM TO ANARCHIST COMRADE K.K.
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF THE REQUESTS OF THE OF THE PRISONERS IN THE AGIA PRISON IN CHANIA
Dimitra Z.
Koridallos Women Prisons