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Monthly Archives: October 2009

#119 | One Less Prison: Pagani detention centre in Lesvos to close down (for now?)

Saturday, October 31, 2009

The “migrant welcoming centre” (that is a prison in the government’s doublespeak) of Pagani in Lesvos was one of the main targets of the No Borders camp that took place in the island last August, with activists calling for the immediate closing down of a detention centre in which, “living” conditions were a disgrace, even [...]

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#118 | A very strange communique (regarding the armed attack on the police station in Athens)

Friday, October 30, 2009

A group appearing for the first time, calling itself “Groups of Proletarian Popular Self-Defense” has claimed responsibility for the attack on the police station of Ayia Paraskeui that took place in Athens on Tuesday. The communique, published in an Athens daily today, seems to be genuine. However, the initials of the newly-appearing group in greek [...]

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#117 | Ex-minister of education house in Athens and Spanish consulate in Thessaloniki targeted overnight

Friday, October 30, 2009

An improvised device explosion took place at 4:32 on Friday morning at the entrance of the apartment of Conservative MP and former minister of education, Marietta Giannakou. Information coming in speaks of the explosive device being placed in a skillet (a tactic often employed by the conspiracy of cells of fire). The explosion were preceded [...]

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#116 | Armed attack against police station in Athens, five cops wounded

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

At around 9.40pm on Tuesday night, four people on motorbikes opened fire against the police station of Ayia Paraskeui, a north-eastern suburb of Athens. Mainstream media report that five cops have been wounded, with one being in a critical condition. They also report that the type of weapons and ammunition used and the style of [...]

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#115 | Concerning two anarchists and a bank robbery

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

(What follows is the typed-up text from a leaflet that has been going around recently) It’s an old story, stuff of the last century. Two anarchists are arrested following a bank strike. The first robbed it, arm in hand. They say the second helped him by looking after the money. It happened in a small [...]

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# 114 | One less cop (thousands to go); the anti-hoodie law is to be withdrawn; police occupation of Exarcheia sees end for now

Friday, October 23, 2009

…and what a cop that was: following the public outcry for the arrest of the broadcaster of the anti-dictatorial student radio and three others on Wednesday night, the head of the greek police (A. Tsiatouras) has been forced to resign. Additionally, after further outcry for the arrests at the demonstration in the Nikaia suburb of [...]

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#113 | The last three of the Nikaia 8 have just been released – all are out now

Thursday, October 22, 2009

On October 17, an anarchist demonstration against the police assassination of Mohammad Atif Kamran in the Athens suburb of Nikaia was attacked by the cops. As it was reported at the time, eight demonstrators were arrested and charged – five were facing charges under the “anti-hoodie law” introduced after December’s revolt. Five of the arrested [...]

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#112 | Smells like Junta spirit: Broadcaster of the anti-dictatorial student radio arrested in Exarcheia, 36 years on

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Since the election of the “socialist” party to power, the neighbourhood of Exarcheia in central Athens has seen an unprecedented police presence: cops of all shapes and sizes have quite literally been occupying the neighbourhood on a daily basis. People are ID’d, detained, arrested, simply for being in the area. With a media blackout on [...]

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