A-Infos (en) al bruxelles, Greece: Exarcheia and Rouvikonas in the sights of the new Conservative government By Yannis Youlountas (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

The countdown is approaching the end, in the center of Athens, for anarchists, 
self-managers, migrants and solidarity. ---- The police operation "law and order" against 
Exarcheia and Rouvikonas would be ready to be launched. ---- According to the new minister 
of public order, Michalis Chrysochoidis, and the deputy minister in charge of penal and 
penitentiary policy, Lefteris Economou, the state plan would be ready to attack the rebel 
district of Athens. ---- A huge police apparatus is being prepared, with MATs (CRS), DIAS 
voltigeurs, intelligence agents, anti-terrorist teams and other units. ---- The new prime 
minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, absolutely wants his mandate to begin by striking a big 
blow, as soon as possible, against "the" anarchists and "hooded" allegedly responsible for 
drug trafficking and arms trafficking in the capital. "The migrants" would also be 
responsible for this doglit, according to the TV channels, more precisely "employed by the 
antiauthoritarians" in a kind of "libertarian mafia and international downtown".

In short, a very big paranoid in all the media at the boot to justify the imminent 
offensive of the Greek state against one of the few strongholds of self-management in 
Europe. A district of Exarcheia that "gives very bad ideas elsewhere, for too long", 
especially in its resistance against police incursions.

The new government has announced the imminent evacuation of all occupied places, 
regardless of the purpose of the squat, in the entire neighborhood, and numerous searches 
to search for drugs, weapons and other equipment used in struggles.

The chief police chiefs say they are ready to intervene and some of their subordinates 
have even made the buzz on Facebook by announcing their joy to go to break the anar and 
the migrant.

The government is also fond of the idea of classifying Rouvikonas as a terrorist 
organization, something its predecessors renounced a year ago. "Permanently preventing 
Rouvikonas from harm is the prime minister's priority," his spokesman said. The K * Vox, 
instead Exarcheia, is more than others in the sights of this operation that should start 
one of the next morning at dawn.

It's hard to say exactly when or how things will unfold, but we expect a lot of violence 
from the CRS, eager to get revenge on this neighborhood they hate for a long time, and 
against the members of the movement which are there.

What is certain is that Exarcheia will not let it go and, above all, that it will be more 
difficult to maintain control of the neighborhood for the long term than to return to it. 
I will not say more here.

Thank you for your support wherever it comes from: it must be said that once again a state 
wants to subdue a zone of resistance, a laboratory of autonomy, self-management and 
libertarian experiences, but also a great alternative of welcome to the squalid refugee 
camps. To put it another way, once again, the power wants to make the utopia disappear so 
as not to disappear itself.

Sooner or later it will be power or us. Freedom or death. Because capitalism and 
authoritarian society lead us to a stalemate in every respect. Either this deadly society 
will continue to destroy the world, or we will sooner or later release us, save life, try 
something else.

Of course, the next few days will be difficult and perhaps even tragic. Among the many 
policemen who will come to hunt us, hit us, stop us, in the labyrinth of the neighborhood 
and its shadows, there will be neo-Nazis and other fascist vermin impatient to make us 
suffer, to take revenge for the fall of Golden Dawn, and simply to break the leftist, the 
migrant, the anarchist. But we are not afraid.

We are not afraid of the present because we are already tomorrow. We carry another way of 
living together in our heads and in our hearts, a world free from the horrors that 
disfigure it, a life without tyrant and valet. We do not resist for Exarcheia, but for 
everyone: for one day, others that we manage to get out of the political prehistory of 
humanity.

https://albruxelles.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/grece-exarcheia-et-rouvikonas-dans-le-viseur-du-nouveau-gouvernement-conservateur/
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