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Solidarity in arresting Thessalonica
Whilst Europe's powerful men gather behind their fortresses and decide on our
lives, some people choose to react against the omnipotence of the sovereign.
Some people decide to respond to those whose greed grows day after day. The
views and practices of these people are different. The State's reaction to this,
however, always the same: Repression.
The cops, working under a strategically organized plan, experimenting in advance
for the Olympic Games (Athens, 2004) : many days before any riots occured paper
checks and arrests were more than intense, they were provocative. Aided by the
irrationally extensive use of CS gas, they managed to capture more than a hundred
people -- 27 of which remain under their custody. Those arrested were brutally
beaten at the time of their arrest and later on, inside the police departments.
Some were forcibly uncased and humiliated by the cops. Despite the poor physical
condition of some of them (broken hands, faints) none was allowed to be examined
by a doctor. The next day, the courts fell under a veil of terror by the presence
of police forces who proceeded to break the solidarity demo appart, arresting
8 people in the process.
The general attorney has issued a decree changing the charges of twenty of
the arrested from misdemeanors into felonies. These twenty have now been set
free under restrictive terms and the deposit of a financial guarantee. The rest
of them, all accused with felonies, have appeared before an interrogator and
all 7 of them remain imprisoned.
Many incidents have been reported where the police has set up the accused with
incriminating evidence and bags with which they had nothing to do.
This travesty of unsolicited arrests continued to take place long after the
end of the riots and in places far away from ground zero.
Foreigners who have been arrested are in danger of facing deportation not only
into countries of the European Union but in countries where their life is in
risk.
Our solidarity is self-evident and expressed through our efforts, by all means,
for their liberation. What is more, it is expressed through the continuation
of our struggle.
No hostage at the hands of the State!
in solidarity, squatters
of the Law School and comrades from Athens and Thessaloniki IMCs
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