With a four-page letter sent to Athens daily “Eleftherotypia”, a nameless group has claimed responsibility for the letter bomb sent to the minister of public order, Michalis Chrisochoidis, killing 52-year old Giorgos Vasilakis, a high-rank policeman and close aide of the minister.
In its communique, which is treated as original, the unnamed group develops a leftist-”patriotic” analysis of the current crisis (the communique is accompanied by excerpts of greek national “hero”, Rigas Feraios). They also explain in detail the logistics of their attack – apparently this is how the letter bomb made it through the ministry’s security checks: the parcel included a letter supposedly written by Christos Karavelas, one of the main accused persons for the Siemens scandal, in which he explained that the parcel included important audio evidence on the Siemens case. As the ministry’s personnel did not know what format the audio evidence was in (it could have been magnetic tapes), they preffered not to put it through the x-ray machine.
There is no group name signing the letter; they state that the name will be revealed in a future attack.
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“Patriotic”-leftist certainly doesn’t sound like the anarchists! A good thing, I think, since we’ve been painted as nothing but nihilist murderers. Will Occupied London be translating this manifesto eventually?
I don’t think it will turn out for good as mass media always tries to label it anarchist, autonomous, etc.
But maybe even bad publicity comes out as good publicity.
Interesting, especially since there is a tendency to portray a blurring between ‘extreme’ right and left-wing politics by the state and in the media, but it is worth noting that there is a statue of Rigas Feraios in front of Athens University, and it is also the name of the KKE’s youth wing in the 60′s and 70′s…He was also depicted on Drachma notes and coins… plenty of room to speculate there.
What next? A ‘Lord Byron Brigade”…!?
“What a web we weave, when we seek to deceive”…
PS- For a recent example of the ‘blurring’effect- see the recent reporting of German @uto’s ripping down national flags during the World Cup -portraying them as “anti-immigrant”…and as would-be ‘Black Bloc’ Nazi Brownshirts…
OK, the communique does not go so far. Personally, i don’t agree that it’s really patriotic, even though there are many points that are not familiar whith the anarchist arguments. I would try to translate the first part of the communique, where their analysis is presented, but this will happen after a while, as i don’t have free time now.
Please provide sources when reporting events. Phrases like “leftist-”patriotic”” and “greek national “hero”” give out predefined condemning intentions without even explaining what is it referring to or providing pieces of original text
I believe there is a deep prejudice about “the greeks” rumoring the brains of the central/north european “radical left” … all fucked up “anarcho-stalinists”
and with that shit in mind it’s so much easier to just condemn anything these dudes don’t understand…
Surely ideas are international? Even referring to a “National Hero” is not necessarily culturally specific, a German group could refer to Florian Geyer, a British one, Watt Tyler…Urban guerilla tactics have been used in many nations,and have always been contentious…I think you overplay this supposed prejudice, there is a great deal of support for the movement in Greece, but it doesn’t come without the freedom to critique or to criticise, but defending actions in Greece along ethnic/Nationalist lines is, I would say is more Stalinistic…(Anarchy/Socialism in one country?)…and perhaps paranoid, just like Uncle Joe!
The anarchist scene in greece generally is not tolerant at all to ideas that seem to be patriotic, even though are not expressed clearly as such. (in my opinion this is a good thing) So maybe, the phrases OL use in the report are justified. If you want a automatic translation, the link of the greek original, as it was sented to ‘eleftherotypia’ is this: http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=181767 (the bold letters are comment of the journalist, the rest is the communique)
Solidarity.
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