#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, APO, land & freedom: For the police ban and suppression of the demonstration against rape and gender-based violence (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

One of the two perpetrators was recognized by the woman and

caught with the help of a passer-by, and the second escaped towards the Strefi
hill, with the typical indifference of the police to look for him, while numerous
forces are camped in Exarchia targeting militants. At A.T. From the beginning,
the woman, who went to report the robbery, beating and attempted rape she had
suffered, received disrespect and insults from the police, while her torture
continued at Evangelismos hospital where she was forced to stay for hours waiting
for him to come medical examiner to examine her.
It is not the first time that such events have occurred, in an area where drug
mafias in direct collaboration with the police attempt to impose conditions of
social cannibalism, hand in hand with state repression and its targeting. And it
is not the first time that as women and as anarchists we take to the streets
erecting ramparts against gender-based violence and sexist attacks by the police,
as was done with the two demonstrations in 2019, against rape as well as against
the police occupation of Exarchia, when camped platoons harassed women and girls
who live, work, frequent and fight in the area on a daily basis.
Yesterday's rally was called in an environment of intensifying competition
between the killers who rule and that society that resists. In the midst of anger
at the generalized patriarchal, class and state violence that is supported and
covered up by the institutions (with the release of the child rapist Lingadis and
the rapist Filippidis, with the cops who killed Jacques being acquitted and the
Hortaria-Dimopoulos walking free, with Korkoneas to be released from prison,
Georgia's rapists to be freed by judicial will, at the same time that rape
victims are paraded in courtrooms and in the media). In the days when the hunger
strike of the anarchist Yannis Michaelidis culminates, whose life is now in
immediate danger, with the vindictive extension of his imprisonment while he has
completed the prescribed time of his sentence, while on Thursday 21/7 the police
had surrounded and attempted also to ban the solidarity march in the center of
Athens. At the same time, the plan to suppress the occupied struggle spaces
continues, with the evacuation of occupation 111 in Thessaloniki, the ultimatum
to the occupation of the Old Cemetery in Alexandroupolis, and the constant threat
that all occupations face, being constantly in the crosshairs of the state's
counter-insurgency campaign. Immigrants and refugees are being murdered at the
border with the practice of pushbacks by the Greek state, and at the same time we
are living once again the horror of the destruction and looting of nature, which
leaves behind scorched earth, charred trees, animals and houses, with forests
burning in across the country, and public green spaces within the city to be
surrendered to privatization and commercialization to become zones of capitalist
profiteering, repression and control. (Exarchia square, Strefi hill, Cyprus and
Patision park, Dracopoulos estate etc.). So this is the environment in which the
state proceeds to ban demonstrations.
On Friday 22/7, an hour and a half before the invited gathering, strong police
forces of all kinds (MAT, DRASI, OPKE and finally EKAM) camp around the perimeter
of the square and in the surrounding narrow streets. Comrades and solidarity, we
gather in the square and the crowd gradually grows. Announcements are read on the
microphone, slogans are shouted, texts are shared.

When the protesters take to the street, a police barricade is set up in front of
them, preventing the march from moving forward. The riot police attack, globbing
the comrades in the front chains and throwing tear gas and flashbangs at the body
of the protest.

We regroup under the fumes of tear gas. We stand with our banners facing the MAT
and the wind, comrades, side by side. Another savage attack follows while the
surrounding roads are blocked. The people trying to escape, protesters, residents
and passers-by, are hit by MAT police who converge from the narrow streets. The
brutal beating and arrest of a young man on Em Street is recorded. Benaki and
eight other arrivals at the junction of Tositsa and Oikonomou streets, while
residents of the area have come out angry on the balconies, screaming at the
policemen to get up and leave.

Initially, an apartment building where people have taken refuge is surrounded, as
well as the coffee shop in Exarchion square. A little later, in the presence of
lawyers and photojournalists, the MAT leave the entrance of the apartment
building and all their forces gather in front of the coffee shop, with the MAT
kaffirs sticking their faces on the windows, threatening and making sexist
gestures to the women who are inside. Among them is a minor child, as well as
girlfriends hit by the previous attack by the cops. A new suffocating police
cordon is set up around the cafe and even lawyers are prevented from approaching,
who are pushed away by the MAT with their shields. A cage and a shuttle arrive at
the scene to pick up the arrested. A prosecutor never showed up.

For more than two hours, while the evacuation operation lasts, we gather in front
of the police barrier (Stournaris and Oikonomou). Comrades, we unfurl the banner
and refuse to leave the spot, shouting slogans of solidarity against state
terrorism. The world is growing. One of the MATatjis who is lined up one meter in
front of our banner, threatens us with his gun. Once again, we are not backing down.

As long as the detainees are being led to the cages, slogans echo. No one alone -
no one alone in the face of state repression. The companions in the cafe refuse
to be physically checked by the male police officers and thus the process of
bringing them in is blocked.
Shortly before the evacuation of the cafe is complete, the gathering is attacked
again with tear gas and a chase is launched in the surrounding streets. An entire
neighborhood is shouting POLICE TV JUDICIAL AUTHORITY, ALL TOGETHER FLUSH EVERY
RUSSIAN.

A new rally is taking place outside GADA. Most of the perpetrators are released
in the early hours of Saturday, while of the 57 arraignments, three were turned
into arrests, with a ridiculous indictment, and taken to the prosecutor.
On Saturday, July 23, the orgy of state repression continued, with preventive
arrests of anarchist comrades and a new ban on demonstrations in Exarcheion
square, which for another day was suffocatingly surrounded for many hours by
police forces.

State gangs don't scare us, they infuriate us.

EVERYONE IN THE STREETS, EVERYONE IN THE SQUARES - OUT THE ROUGH, THE POLICE AND
THE MAFIA

VICTORY IN THE HUNGER STRIKE OF YIANNIS MICHAILIDES

AGAINST STATE AND PATRIARCHY FOR MANAGERSHIP AND ANARCHY

Anti-Patriarchy Group - Anarchist Political Organization

*material from land and freedom, kinimatini, Nikolas Georgiou & companion profiles

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