Translator’s note: Yorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis is an anarchist prisoner in Greece, held over an unsuccessful robbery. The short letter translated and published below was issued exactly one week ago, in response to an inmate’s death that Yorgos eye-witnessed.
A NIGHT IN THE PRISON CELL
Death rattles follow one another; blood coming out from the mouth and nose. Pulses drop, the heart stops giving a signal. Kicks on the cell’s door, shouts. For ages we shout to the prison guards to open up – to no avail. The first one to arrive, a cold, cynical, prisoner of his constant fear of prison breaks via staged incidents and the many films that he’s been watching: he flatly refuses to unlock the door. Not even the sight of the bleeding person in a coma touches him. He had, he said, to inform the director first. Another ten minute delay and the heart of Spyros Gardiklis lasts no longer. The gates of the penitentiary house become synonymous to those of the Underworld. There is no stretcher to carry the dead, while it is a well know fact that once the cells are locked up, the medical staff disappear. The counting of the inmates is the final act. Today, Spyros was missing. The rest can only count our dead and some of us swear revenge.
Let’s tear down all prisons.
Goodbye Spyro.
Rural prisons of Kassaveteia, Volos, 4/6/09
Yorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis
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Hi!Just want to mention that George is held for unsuccesful bank robbery,not anything else.We as anarchist movement are not pro robbering in general.
Dunno exactly if you commented regarding my statement. In that event or rather just for all candidness, I wasn’t referring to the context of the article or any of it’s circumstances but to the fact there was an article.
Hey grattack
From what i know yorgos is held for the robbery and has declared himself to be an anarchist. Surely that makes him an anarchist bank robber. The “anarchist movement” as a whole cannot, of course, be neither for nor against robberies in general – luckily, it is too diverse and large for that.
So in all honesty, and with the best intentions, can I ask what it is that you meant?
cheers
Hey just you
Of course I won’t go as far to impose an answer for Grattack, albeit I reckon him cautious for the obvious traps & minefields that Big Brother has carefully staged in his information wars to deceitfully win over the hearts & minds of the proletarians & bourgeoisie. Forasmuch I can concur and let it be reiterated once again in triplet, the opinion of the autonomist movement is in general to diverse for determining & maintaining a common ground concerning financially motivated lawbreaking. However I think we can all consent that openly endorsing robberies that are simply despicable from a humane point of view, like for instance this, you tube dot com vid; ( /watch?v=TeBx3qIOj-I&feature=related ) demands much circumspection.
The bollocks Johnny
…and what on earth has the above video got to do with yorgos’ case, I do not quite understand. Yorgos attempted a BANK robbery, threatening NOBODY’S life, and suffering a “citizen arrest”. The link you posted above shows a robbery in which two young males are physically threatening the life of an old lady in order to rob her corner shop. How, I’m asking again, how on earth are the two comparable even. And why should a conversation like this be taking place on an anarchist website?
I meant that George has the solidarity of ours,even if not the whole anarchist movement at least a big part of it,because he is an (anarchist of course)BANK robber.If he robed people or small businesses or something i dont think that anyone would support him…
Just to clear that out,since the first text writes just about a “robber”…
Don’t trust johnnyb4theroad.
He’s just a fucking spammer.
His videos miss the point almost
all the time and his phrases are senseless.
By the way I was forgetting:
I read your long and long plan for a Tribal D-Day some months ago,
and all I can say is that
this meeting would not work
because all the tribes and the gathered
would take too many drugs,
and on the morning of the D-Day operation beginning
they just wouldn’t wake up and start warfare for no reason but the overuse of drugs sold by a very tricky pusher in the night.
They will wake up just in time to get arrested by police and army which arrived while they (and probaly you)
slept.
As we say in our unit:
less amphetamine more adrenaline
Goodbye.
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