Author: tameio

On the 17^th of September 2010, Alexandros Kossivas, Mihalis Traikapis and Maria Εkonomou were arrested in Panorama of Evia Island. Lacking any incriminating evidence, the authorities based their accusations on the vague and fabricated testimonies given by local residents, which refer to a similarity in the appearance of the accused to the perpetrators. All three refused the accusations and are known to the authorities due to their active participation in social struggles. This was sufficient for A. Kossivas and M. Traikapis to be placed in remand, while M. Εkonomou was released awaiting trial. On May of 2011, Venos Polykretis was called by the investigator of Chalkida, as a defendant for the same court case. The comrade was accused, because he was recorded from the toll’s CCTV the day before the robbery, with his other two comrades. The significant of the case is that the cops have not sent, as is required, the call at his house but deliberately concealed it.

On 28/07/2011, A. Kossivas (already in custody for the case of the robbery in Psachna) is informed by accident, that he’s been accused for a robbery which took place in March of 2010 at the National Bank of Schimatari. On August 2 Alexandros shows up at the investigator who informs him that, he has also called M. Economou as defendant for the same case. Neither A. Kossivas who is imprisoned in Korydallos prison, nor M. Economou who shows up once a month at the police station, received the calls in their hands. The concealment of the calls, clearly shows the intention of cops to create an aggravating/incriminating climate and in many cases may mean issuing arrest warrants. The categories for the robbery of Schimatari are based only on the testimonies of a snitch, who, in each of his three testimonies changes his own words and adds0 new contradictory evidence against the comrades.

The trial was set for 18/10/2011 in Chalkida, when it took a break because of the lawyers and judges strike for 26/10. On 26/10 was suspended for a second time due to strike of the lawyers for the 15^th of November.

Letter from the three accused of the robbery in Evia, central Greece

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Thodoris Delis was arrested in Rhodes on the evening of August 16^th, 2010 accused of a bank robbery that had taken place in an Agrotiki bank branch on the morning of the same day. He was charged with felony for bank robbery, possession and use of a weapon and placed in pre-trial detention in Alikarnasos prison, Heraklio, Crete.

Letter from Thodoris Delis

In a period of intensification of class conflict, the state—through a methodically conducted police, judicial, and media operation beginning directly after my arrest on the afternoon of May 3, 2010—has managed to turn me into a hostage. Alternately comical and scientific, the set-up as well as the handling of my “case” renders this criminal prosecution as exemplary in two ways.On the one hand, exemplary in the very sense of “making an example,” because of the attempt to make an example of me due to my firm, unwavering choice—now for 17 years running—to be on the other side of the barricade, where my class position and my conscience have positioned me: against capitalist domination and state terrorism.
On the other hand, exemplary because all this is happening during a new period of repression: an era of the IMF and total war waged on society by capital and the state. Alongside the structural weaknesses of the capitalist system, the current economic crisis is revealing the artificial, unpredictable nature of bourgeois democracy itself. While the IMF, the EU, and their local representatives are trying to impose a regime of capitalist economic totalitarianism, the mask of democracy has fallen. Simultaneously, via a most amateurish set-up worthy of the post-civil war police, matters are “settled” with “indisputable DNA analysis” in the laboratories of police headquarters.
I won’t go on and on making excuses about all the blatant legal and other violations regarding the handling of my case. After all, my imprisonment was approved on one of the floors of the National Intelligence Service building.I grant no legitimacy to this system of exploitation and oppression, no matter what happens.

Nevertheless, to those whose objective is to make an example of me through imprisonment, I say this: For me, prison is a new battlefield, a challenge in the struggle against “the absolute power of law and order,” a chance to turn the most barbaric institution of control into a laboratory for my political and ideological maturation. Despite everything, the new repressive dogma—with its remarkable mania for vengeance—can’t hide the indebted Greek state’s panic in the face of the eventuality that generalized social rage becomes social insurrection.
From A wing at Korydallos Prison, I raise my fist to my comrades and to all who struggle, filled with the certainty that we’ll meet again on the battlefield of the social and class war—even more determined, even more combative, and even more potent.

Aris Seirinidis

Korydallos Prisons

June 9, 2010