Since May 16th Agros (=plot of land/field) is a free, vivid place within the abandoned and commercialized Tritsi Park (NW Athens). Agros carries out collective land cultivation, weekly assemblies on social/political issues and initiatives against the state’s destructive development plans. Their modus operandi is based on making individual needs and wishes collective and pursuing them regardless of authorities and mediators of all kinds.

On Wednesday night (23/12) Agros, the self-managed, occupied zone in Tritsi Park came under arson attack. The fire brigade was contacted at 23:45 and put out the fire promptly. The fascists waited for the people to leave and afterwards sneaked in, in the dark (a split iron bar was later found at the back side of the squat).
The most considerable material damage was done in the room they store their water tank and tools (they fascists broke in through a window in this room). They spilled inflammable liquid all over the place (a half-burnt backpack, wicks, strips of cloth etc were found after the incident) and also destroyed a small seedbed, where plants were kept until they could be planted.

Abstracts from Agros’ communiqué:

“The damage is only material, limited and reparable.”
“This attack is yet another in a series of others that have been inflicted recently in squats and haunts (Lelas Karayanni Squat on 2/11, Molotov cocktails thrown at Villa Amalias on 3/11, attack on the free social place Buena Ventura in Thessaloniki on 24/11, on the immigrants’ haunt at Hania on 16/12, on the haunt of the Open Assembly of Western Districts in Thessaloniki on 18/12, on the free social space Botanical Garden in Petroupoli on 18/12.)
“Parastate assaults […] do not scare us. In contrary, they reinforce our will to remain firm in our choices and beliefs – self-organization, anti-hierarchy, anti-commercialism.”

Restitution works started on Saturday 26/12 and many comrades showed up to help.