A march of circa 100 comrades took place today in downtown Vyronas, Athens with flyer sharing and leaflets spreading. The march passed by the hellenic police chief’s residence, Papagiannopoulos.
Since January 21, a continuously evolving repressive operation has started including dozens of raids and searches of anarchists’, anti-authoritarians’ and other fighters’ residences across the country. Prosecutors grant warrants either with the excuse of Ch.Xiros [T/N: member of the revolutionary group “November 17” who didn’t return to prison after his last prison leave and is now wanted with a 4 million bounty] or due to “anonymous information for weapon possession” that police authorities were supposedly tipped off. These police authorities loot fighters’ residencies by violating any concept of privacy through spectacular operations that continue to this day.
This kind of exception procedures, which have been enforced on revolutionary subjects for many years now, are performed through an imposed state of emergency that aims to oppress and terrorize those who resist. A key actor for the establishment of this state of emergency is the hellenic police with all its departments (such as DIAS, DELTA, the counter-terrorism squad, and state intelligence) which are lately assigned a merciless witch-hunt including raids, investigations and a factory of false indictments.
However, they all have names and addresses. The chief of hellenic police, Papagiannopoulos, has become widely known due to his public statement that the police force should “make immigrants’ life unbearable” [T/N: a recording of Papagiannopoulos statement was linked to the press]. In this case, Papagianopoulos addressed his subordinates (all kinds of cops and snitches) regarding how they should treat immigrants. This was not merely a coincidence. Immigrants constitute this part of society that experiences the state of emergency in all aspects of their daily life. A brutal materialization of Papagiannopoulos’ prompt was the drowning of 12 immigrants in Farmakonisi by the coast guard.
Thus, it becomes increasingly apparent that this statement constitutes the centerline order for managing all those who exempt from bourgeois legality and resist modern totalitarianism. We cannot ignore the fact that recent state operations aim to repress the wider anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement, as well as radical and revolutionary relationships. At the same time, we are conscious of the fact that the ultimate target are individual but also more comprehensive expressions of societal resistance. This kind of policing management is part of a wider repressive state operation, following squat evictions, the “swap” of Athens center, the conscription of strikers, the numerous imprisonments of anarchists, the establishment of a state of terror in entire villages in Skouries Chalkidiki, including raids into residencies and persecution of residents.
To repressive attacks and ideological state persecutions we must oppose a broad front of social and class grassroots resistance. We should uncompromisingly insist in subverting this regime of exploitation and oppression, for the social revolution, claiming a society of equality, solidarity and freedom. To turn the tables on fear.
We will make your life unbearable