Given the daily police violence that has intensified since the beginning of the occupation of the rebel and solidarity district of Athens:
"WE WILL SOON HAVE DEATH IN EXARCHEIA"
This sentence, many say this morning, in a corner of the neighborhood where we have lunch to a few, taking stock of the situation. An old anarchist companion is convinced that we are going to relive 1985 or 2008. In those years, a young activist had been murdered by a policeman, provoking every time very important riots. In December 2008, the power shook. More than 300 banks and luxury stores had burned. Parliament had been besieged.
Today, the atmosphere is not the same in society, but weariness is at its height. Something is smoldering. Like a pain in the belly.
The occupying forces of the district are multiplying the daily violence on the migrants, the local activists, the solidarity people coming from other countries and, more recently, a gay couple. In the north-west of the neighborhood squared by the police (see map), the situation becomes very complicated, especially for the squat Notara 26 which is in the middle of the area in question, almost surrounded by police stations. It is in this area that a gay couple has just been hit by police surveillance. It is also in this area that fascists have been spotted next to the cops, for example with t-shirts of the neo-Nazi supporters of Rome and the identities of Defend Europe.
But what is happening around the place is not better. The tear gas grenade that was thrown into the K * Vox self-managed social center, where a lot of people were, could have killed someone. It is also an illegal act, even in times of war, to gas a closed place. It is a criminal act theoretically punished by international tribunals.
It happens that inside the K * Vox, we sometimes have the visit of an old companion suffering from respiratory insufficiency. If he had been with us that night, he might be dead, so toxic smoke was thick inside the place whose exits were blocked by the uncontrollable police. Worse still, one of the members of the group has recently given birth and sometimes passes with her baby: what would have happened?
That's not all. As confirmed by Giorgos Kalaitzidis (co-founder of Rouvikonas) relayed by the self-managed media of the social movement, one of the police officers unsheathed his handgun while threatening. The witnesses are not lacking, members of the K * vox and visitors, almost everyone has seen, even if we have unfortunately no photo of the gesture. And if the policeman had fired, what would have happened to Exarcheia and beyond to Athens?
Last night, Giorgos Kalaitzidis, who knows the neighborhood and its history, wrote on his Facebook page (1):
"It will happen. It is very likely that we will soon have dead in Exarcheia. "
Given the evolution of the situation, the violence of the police occupation and the large number of fascists and barbouzes who mate in the wake of the cops, many of us think the same thing. This morning, a little before 9:00 (Greek time), shots were fired in the east of Exarcheia. Moments later, police voltigeurs were sighted. For now, we do not know exactly what happened. To be continued.
Almost every night anarchist and revolutionary groups in the neighborhood attack police detachments. The day before yesterday, some 50 insurgents attacked the police station located at the intersection of Tositsa and Spirou Trikoupi streets. The police statement speaks of a rain of fire and evokes the figure of "80 thrown Molotov cocktails" in a few seconds. The police reinforcements failed to catch the attackers who disappeared very quickly in the streets of the neighborhood.
NEW IMMINENT ATTACK OF THE POLICE
AGAINST 11 PLACES, INCLUDING THE NOTARA 26 AND THE K * VOX!
Instead of controlling his police and dismissing the fascist militia hanging out, the Greek government has decided to toughen up the situation in Exarcheia! Last night, television news, including on the Ant1 TV channel (equivalent to TF1), announced a change of state strategy: increased repression because of resistance and an imminent and simultaneous attack against 11 squats, on the grounds of the mobilization that is growing day by day and that the power wants to pick up speed. According to rumors, the Notara 26 and the K * Vox would be on the list.
We are talking about an attack on Monday at dawn or one of the following days. Given the number of places targeted by the operation, their distribution scattered around the neighborhood and the strong symbol they represent for the social movement, the state would need a real police armada, much larger than last Monday.
This end-to-end strategy shows that Kyriakos Mitsotakis has only to make consequences. He wants to seduce the hard right and finish with this area that is a task in the project of gentrification Athenian. He also wants to meet the demand of some of his European counterparts who is worried about this symbol of resistance and utopia on the continent. There is not and there must be no alternative: we know the music.
Prepare companions and comrades. The coming hours will be decisive. We will need your support, your relay, your protest, wherever you are. The challenge is not only the defense of a unique neighborhood in Europe for its concentration of self-managed places, for the extent of its resistance to all powers, for the beauty of its solidarity with the precarious and migrant. . No, the stakes are more than that.
Defending Exarcheia is defending our right to show that other ways are possible, out of the current stalemate.
Yannis Youlountas
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