On the 11th of February, about 100 comrades gave their answer to the leadership of the Hellenic Police, regarding the raids on comrades’ houses in Athens and Thessaloniki (read more here) carried out by the Security Police in an attempt to intimidate and terrorize the activists, and, therefore, the whole society.
The dynamic and well-organized action, which passed by the residence of the Chief Police Officer Papagiannopoulos, obviously didn’t go unnoticed by Katehaki’s staff and generals [T/N: the ministry of (in)justice is located in Katehaki avenue, Athens]. Αnd so they felt – even for a brief moment – the breeze of resistance creeping in their fortresses through the windows.
We see their showy walks in front of the self-organized projects, their cowardly bullying, the inspections and identification checks of youths and local residents. We see their persistent presence in our neighbourhoods.
The clear intention of those in power to wipe out the activists has, of course, not gone unnoticed. The carousel of targeting and repressing those who pose a threat to the regime was developed long ago and is now being unfolded before our eyes in different ways each time. Either when our houses are assaulted or when we come across DELTA squad’s scums on a daily basis, the war against authority is raging at all levels. [T/N: DELTA squad: cops on motorbikes. There are many cases of reckless violence that involve them.]
We have taken a stand in this war.
We are not used to the enforcement of the neo-Nazis or the fear in the eyes of the immigrants.
We are not used to compromise, apathy, fatalism.
We are not used to our comrades being outlaws or in prisons
We have not grown accustomed to the poverty, misery and death that both state and capitalism are spreading.
We won’t get used to the image of murderers in uniforms walking around our homes or neighbourhoods.
“Power walks” don’t terrorize us, they make us uncompromising. So as to make it absolutely clear: the activists’ collective presence and action on the streets and squares of our neighbourhoods is not under negotiation.
PS: Note that the police, after the action under their leader’s house, went as far as to involve the Cyber Crime Unit! In an unprecedented act of censorship and control the smart-asses took down the video of our action. The conclusions are all yours.
Translator’s note: The website mpalothia.com was attacked and taken down for about three hours when they published the report regarding the action at the police chief’s residence. We wonder why…
Source: mpalothia.com