17.36 A musician’s protest at the Propylea was encircled and tear-gassed by riot police (!) The musicians were performing a track when attacked. There are rumours that this is the first time police use tear gas from their new stock; apparently this is some sort of paralytical tear gas…
14.52 Another four of last week’s arrestees appeared before the prosecutor today, who ordered their pre-trial detention (which can, and more often than not lasts one year in Greece). This, combined with the pre-trial detention of arrestees in small cities (i.e. in Kozani and Larissa) shows the greek “justice” will be following a zero tolerance approach with anyone suspected of participating in the revolt. As the prosecutor told the arrestees in Kozani, “the police can no longer deal with you – so we will”.
14.42 The peaceful student sit-in outside the police headquarters on Aleksandras Ave is unprovokenly attacked by police with tear gas. The crowd dispersed in three groups, all of which started fighting back with stones and spontaneous small barrickades. At least two arrests – one young male student was arrested, handcuffed and then teargassed and kicked in front of us. People tried to save him from the police but it was impossible. Indymedia reports that another young female student was injured in the head by the pigs. The anti-police sentiment on the streets is simply phenomenal.
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It seems like international solidarity actions might want to focus on the release of arrestees. A year in jail pre-trial is very long by any standards.
There’s the Black Cross for that, I bet they’ll pop up across the world anytime soon.
On the situation in Larisa: “There are 19 people detained total. 8 have already been in court for their first hearing and 4 were ordered to be held in jail, 8 more are going to court today but we have not found out what happened yet. All the detainees are being processed under the anti-terrorist laws, accused of forming a terrorist group, etc.”
Source: http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20081213015050522 … freedom for all political prisoners!
Just wanted to say nice one for all the coverage, it’s great to see what’s been going on. We’ve been archiving your reports in our Greece unrest archive, adding in eyewitness reports from elsewhere as well.
Keep it up!
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Why do you call the police “pigs”? Pigs are very intelligent and innately peaceable animals. It’s humans who are not.
How about ‘larves’?
When you say, “one young male student was arrested, handcuffed and then teargassed and kicked in front of us.” by “teargassed” do you mean peppersprayed or something more like that?
Thank you for all the excellent coverage.
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