A-Infos (en) Greece, COMMUNIQUE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SQUATTED POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Today, January 13 2007, police attacked the anarchist and 
anti-authoritarian motorbike demo in solidarity to the three comrades 
arrested at the social forum on May 6 2006 in Athens. The demo was 
attacked by special motorbike forces (Z team) on the way back from Nikea 
hospital where there had been a solidarity gathering for two of the 
imprisoned comrades Tarasio Zadorozni and Gerasimos Kiriakopulos who are 
on hungerstrike. --- The anti riot police squads (MAT) then stormed the 
comrades on the ground, 42 were taken into custody at the national 
security police headquarters in Athens, many of them injured, and 4 of 
them are still being held 9 hours later. --- Tarasio Zadorozni and 
Gerasimos Kiriakopulos have been on hunger strike for 46 and 28 days 
respectively and were transferred from Koridalos prison to a secure unit 
in Nikea hospital on January 9 as their condition had deteriorated.
They have been held in prison since May 6 2006 along with another 
demonstrator, Kostas Kachadouras, accused of rioting during the 
international antiwar demo of the European Social Forum in Athens.

The imprisoned demonstrators of May 6 are 3 of the thousands of people 
that took to the streets that day when riots erupted between the forces 
of repression and anarchists and young rebels and attacks were made 
against State and capitalist targets. The police arrested 17 
demonstrators who were accused on trumped up heavy charges and 3 of them 
have been held in prison awaiting trial without any evidence against 
them (with the political consent of the traditional leftist parties and 
groups) so that they can be punished as an example for those who choose 
to resist without mediation or institutional representation.

The struggle that those on hunger strike began for their freedom, using 
their body as a weapon, has now become the terrain where a general 
conflict between the State and those who fight it is being expressed.
It is about an attack in which the State, using all the repressive 
mechanisms of propaganda and control in its power, is attempting to 
isolate and eliminate anarchists and anti-authoritarians, who are the 
most radical part of social resistance, with the surrender of the whole 
of society as its final objective.

Under these conditions of intensifying State terror, every action of 
solidarity to the imprisoned fighters has been under attack. The aim of 
this repression is not only to keep the 3 in prison as long as possible, 
it is also to eliminate the very dynamic of solidarity, 
self-organisation and resistance against the plans of the State and the 
bosses.
So, on January 12, the police attempted to prevent the solidarity 
demonstration that had been organised by anarchists and 
anti-authoritarians. The order was pronounced by the chief of police 
forces present, stating that he had instructions from the prosecutor, 
but this was subverted by the persistence of the demonstrators and 
finally a strong demo was held in the centre of Athens.

The attack on today’s demonstration (January 13), with the arrests and 
the wounded, are the peak of this repressive violence, showing the 
State’s intent to bury the struggle of those on hunger strike in 
silence, to terrorise those in solidarity and attack the development of 
the anarchist struggle.

What has preceded today’s events: the arrest of an anti-authoritarian 
comrade outside his home following the motorbike demo to the house of 
the minister of justice; intensive provocation and pressure by the Z 
motorbike police squad on another motorbike demo to Koridalos prison on 
December 15; police attack on new year’s eve motorbike demo on its 
return from the prison that resulted in many comrades being taken into 
custody and one arrest, and on January 9 the surrounding by anti riot 
police squads of a radio station which had been occupied by 50 
anarchists to transmit solidarity messages and news of the hunger strike.


AGAINST the attempts of the State to isolate the struggle of our 
imprisoned comrades who are on hunger strike behind a wall of silence

AGAINST the constant repressive attacks against anarchists and 
antiauthoritarians, aiming at their isolation and annihilation

AGAINST the attempt to impose social acquiescance

WE ARE TAKING OVER THE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

AND WE DEMAND

THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF OUR 4 COMRADES BEING HELD IN THE NATIONAL 
SECURITY BUILDING FOLLOWING TODAY’S ATTACK BY POLICE AGAINST THE 
SOLIDARITY MOTORBIKE DEMO

AND

THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE IMPRISONED PROTESTORS OF
MAY 6 2006

By taking over this university building we are creating a place of 
constant counterinformation and solidarity within our city, an attempt 
that is operating horizontally and against all hierarchy, on the basis 
of the occupiers’ general assembly.

No repressive action will extinguish our solidarity to our imprisoned 
comrades, or prevent the social struggle for liberation from the chains 
of Authority


THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ANY PRISON CELL

SOLIDARITY TO THE HUNGERSTRIKERS

TARASIO ZADOROZNI (SINCE NOV 29 2006)

AND

GERASIMOS KIRIAKOPULOS (SINCE DECEMBER 15 2006)

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE 3 IMPRISONED PROTESTORS OF MAY 6

THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF OUR 4 COMRADES WHO ARE BEING HELD IN THE 
NATIONAL SECURITY BUILDING FOLLOWING TODAY’S ATTACK BY POLICE AGAINST 
THE SOLIDARITY MOTORBIKE DEMO

SOLIDARITY TO ALL IMPRISONED AND ACCUSED SOCIAL FIGHTERS

FREEDOM TO ALL THOSE IN PRISON CELLS

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

Assembly of the occupied Polytechnic University
January 13 2007, 7pm.


Ps. At the moment of writing the four arrested have been set free, one 
of whom with serious chest and back wounds, and many stitches in the 
head. The occupation continues.
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