In 2017, the Koukaki Squatting Community was created. Three abandoned houses were occupied at the streets of 45 Matrozou, 21 Panaitolio and 3 Arvali in the neighbourhood of Koukaki. A neighbourhood, close to the Filopappou Hill and the Acropolis, which was downgraded during the memorandum years [1] and then exploited by tourism and heavily gentrified.
In 2017, through collective effort the houses became habitable, flourishing as spaces for housing and political struggle. The doors of the squatted buildings were open to those who wished to counterattack state violence and injustice, to those needing shelter or the community’s solidarity structures, to those seeking a collective way of living, as well as to the people of the neighborhood. Besides assemblies and the events, the squats hosted a lending library, public showers and laundries, and a clothing exchange bazaar.
After about three years and having fought back several attacks by fascists and cops, and amongst a wave of evictions of self-organized spaces, the houses got evicted by the greek state.
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with an inventive and creative plan, and in his own unique way make the most difficult, the most impossible things seem achievable. As long as we are together.”
The Direct Action Cells claim responsibility for the incendiary attack on the office of far-right lawyer and failed politician Vasilis Kapernaros in the Kypseli neighborhood in the early hours of April 2. Just as we did the last time we attacked a collaborator in the crimes of Tempi (the Vozenberg residence, February 2025), so now we name the cell that carried out the attack after the armed urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymiteris. We call upon all fighting revolutionary forces. Every comrade who devises subversive plans and puts them into action through dynamic acts, to take up the torch and honor the memory of our comrade as he deserves. To set fire to the quiet nights of the metropolis.
