A man called yesterday at the newspaper ‘Ta Nea’ and told the journalist where the communique was left. The full text is published today in this newspaper. As the police had predicted, the ‘Sect of Revolutionaries’ has claimed responsibility for the excecution of Socratis Giolias a week ago.
They have also published a photo of the group’s firearms (above),in similar style to what the group ‘November 17′ used to do some years ago. The communique is 7-pages long.
Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa are two of the anarchists imprisoned in relation the Revolutionary Struggle case. As we published earlier, Nikos had gone on hunger strike, demanding access to the hospital where Pola Roupa would be giving birth and also, access to visits to her and their son at the female wing of Korydalos prison in Athens.
Today’s news from Athens IMC:
The hunger strike by Nikos Maziotis and Kostas Gournas ended a few hours ago, along with the abstaining from meals by approximately 90 prisoners across the country; they were abstaining in support of the demand of Nikos Maziotis to visit his newly-born child.
Nikos Maziotis was transferred this morning to the Alexandra hospital in Athens and visited his comrade and partner Pola Roupa, who gave birth to their son yesterday with good care and without the presence of the anti-terrorist unit at any stage of the procedure. It is almost certain that Nikos’ second demand, to be visiting Pola in Korydalos prison, will also be met.
The assassination of Sokratis Giolias is not a news item that would concern this blog much, not normally: his mafia-styled execution has absolutely nothing to do with the morality of the social antagonist movement, to which we belong. Neither of course had Giolias himself; a far cry from an “investigative journalist”, he has been much more accurately described by his own lawyer on the night following his death: Yiannis Maraκakis, interviewed during the news-show of Mega TV news on July 19th 2010, described Giolias as a “collaborator of the anti-terrorist unit” and assured the presenter that Giolias was close to all police sergeants and could have therefore asked for protection, if he had so wished (source: Athens IMC, in Greek).
Yet still, if we were to believe the correspondents of major international media outlets in Athens, Giolias was an “investigative journalist” (BBC news) who “sought to illuminate Greece’s seamier underside” (Helena Smith, The Guardian – Ms Smith failed to get his lawyer’s name right, even on her second attempt). Most international media outlets also carried the news that Giolias was about to publish an investigation into corruption… Whatever Giolias was, he was not an “independent” investigative journalist by any means: his blog had very often carried news items which could only been sourced directly from the police HQ – and often, he had exceeded the police themselves: for example on April 12th, 2010, only hours after the police had started making the arrests in connection to the “Revolutionary Struggle” case, his blog carried an “investigative” post (in greek with screen-shots on Athens IMC) falsely informing about the arrest of four well-known anarchists in Athens.
Tabloid journalist Sokratis Giolias was assassinated outside his house in the suburb of Ilioupoli, Athens at approximately 05.25 local time on Monday morning. According to media reports Giolias was shot by three men who fired at least sixteen times. Giolias was allegedly a main contributor to “troktiko” (rodent), a popular news blog with ties to the police and far-right groups.
According to the police, Giolias was shot with weapons that have been previously used by the group “Revolutionary Sect” – and so this group is so far treated as the main suspect for the attack.
Nikos Maziotis, an anarchist imprisoned in relation the Revolutionary Struggle case , has gone on hunger strike. Below is a translation of his letter announcing the commencing of the hunger strike.
The treatment reserved by the state for the imprisoned revolutionaries and its political enemies is standard: Revanchist actions, sadism, physical and psychological violence, disrespect toward human dignity, indifference for health, for bodily integrity, for human life itself.
Because the security of the state and the regime, the denial of freedom is above all – above life itself and “human rights”.
For the state officials, the political and financial elite and the rich, “human rights” only concern themselves and their class-alike.
They do not concern the people, the poor, the impoverished, the workers, the unemployed, the veterans of work, the migrants, those digging through the garbage of street markets to eat.
Nor do they concern the imprisoned -social- prisoners, the vast majority of which comes from the poor, popular classes and the lives of which is worth absolutely nothing for the system.
And of course, [human rights] do not concern revolutionaries or political prisoners either, for which the system has always attempted their physical and ethical extermination.
In this context, my partner and comrade Panagiota Roupa and myself, both of which are members of Revolutionary Struggle, are denied the right of prison visits thanks to the attorney of the prison of Korydallos, who rejects “for security reasons” my visit to the maternity clinic “Alexandra” to visit my partner, who will bring our son to the world – the youngest political prisoner of the greek “democracy”.
She is also rejecting for the same “security reasons” my application to visit the female prisons of Korydallos, as my comrade is unable due to her condition to visit the male prisons herself, as it is supposedly customary until now.
Demanding, therefore, the “obvious”, as a partner and father to visit my partner-comrade and our sons, I am going on hunger strike from July 15th in order for my following two demands to be met:
1. To be transferred for a visit to the maternity clinic “Alexandra” on July 25th, in order to visit my partner Panagiota Roupa and our son, since the childbirth has been planned with a Caesarean for July 24th, while she will remain in the clinic for a few days after that and
2. That it is me who gets transferred for visits to the female prisons for the first period after the childbirth due to the unavoidable inability of my partner and our son to move.
As much as the repressive mechanisms believe that by imprisoning us they will get done with us, they are wrong. Either inside, or outside prisons the struggle for us is a matter of honour and dignity; it will continue.
Revolutionary struggle continues.
NIKOS MAZIOTIS
The following news item made it to the back pages of Athens daily Eleftherotypia (Greek original).
Debt-related suicide in Crete
A fruit-seller ended his life with a shotgun, as he could not handle the pressure caused by the debts of his privately run business.
Two days ago the 58-year old fruit-seller from the village of Kavrochori near Heraclion had disappeared and his wife had notified the police. Today, he was found dead in his car in an isolated area. The 58-year old had shot himself with a shotgun.
According to the people close to him, the unfortunate man was riddled in debt and was under immense pressure – and so decided to put an end to his life. Financial woes have brought many people in Crete to despair, the result being that approximately 10 people, most of which petite-tradesmen, have chosen suicide.
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