WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, APO: Mobilizations of solidarity with the 12-year-old from Colonos & her family (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

On January 8, the trial begins for the case of the 12-year-old
schoolgirl from Colonos, another horrific case of sexual abuse and
trafficking that came to light almost a year ago. The handling of this
particular case, like dozens of others by the state and civil justice,
confirms the catalytic role of institutions in the cultivation,
reproduction and concealment of patriarchal violence, since all this
time, the state and its institutions seem not to they show no interest
in the girl's mental and physical health, nor in the progress of the
case - instead they use every means available to cover up the facts and
intimidate the girl and her family into blackmailing them into silence.
The child was effectively interrogated, dragged to security and to the
courts, without any care befitting both his age and the fact that he is
a victim of human trafficking. The media dogged the mother, with all the
patriarchal stereotypes that want the woman to blame, but which in
essence condemn her as a poor woman who had to work all day to raise
eight children, offered scandalous coverage to the 200 plus involved in
the ring.
When the child's mother went to the police to report the child abuser
Ilias Michos, a person with political connections in the ruling party of
New Democracy and with relations with the police, who abused and
extradited the 12-year-old, the authorities not only let time pass, but
they gave him every opportunity, both he and his wife - a politician in
the Municipality of Athens, to try to terrorize and buy off the mother,
promising that she would pay otherwise. Precisely because she refused
the redemption, she herself was targeted, arrested, denounced as guilty,
still held in Korydallos prisons and referred to trial, while from the
beginning the girl declares that his mother knew nothing.

All the handling of the state mechanisms seemed to implement the threats
of Michos, who threatened the 12-year-old not to speak because otherwise
he would destroy her family! The child is actually being punished today
(as well as her siblings and mother), since from the moment she revealed
what she suffered at the hands of child rapists, she found herself
losing her mother, being separated from her siblings, being denied even
the prison visits, maximizing a mental and material torture. In
addition, after the address where she temporarily resides by the then
minister D. Michailidou became known, she has been attacked with a
knife, her house watched and other threats. The 12-year-old girl was
last attacked at the end of October by the trafficking ring that raped
and extradited her, when a 37-year-old man approached her while
returning from school by bus and threatened her that if she continued to
testify against his members circuit, she will harm herself, her siblings
and her family. Although the perpetrator was arrested because of the
girl's immediate reaction, his details were concealed and he was released.
It is obvious that the aim of all these methods is to blackmail the
silence of the victims, not only in this case, but also in any other,
since the message is clear: Anyone who speaks will be psychologically
destroyed, will be dragged to the courts, will be hanged on the gallows
, it will be a stronghold of mobsters, without any protection.
Murderers, Rapists, Serial Rapists, Mobsters & drug traffickers enjoy
government protection & of justice. The mechanisms of bourgeois justice,
a class and patriarchal "justice", which is there to prosecute & to
imprison those & those who resist state-capitalist brutality, which
condemns thousands of the poor and marginalized to confinement in prison
cells, are part of a system that promotes social cannibalism,
patriarchal and generally authoritarian violence, protecting the
powerful and their crimes, terrorizing and throwing into the fire of
cannibalism all who dare to question it.
With the trial set to begin on 8/1/24, and after the recent will, which
adds new charges to the mother and lightens the indictment for Micho, we
have every reason to be vigilant. To raise with our solidarity, the
power of our voice and movements a wall against child rapists and the
state that covers them up and at the same time to weave a net of
solidarity for the 12-year-old and her family, who at this moment,
without any other economic , social and psychological care beyond that
of solidarity, are still faced with the circuit and its interconnections.

We know that this is another battle, against the trafficking rings, the
police involved and the political power that covers it up, as in the
case of the child rapist Lignadis who was released after his conviction
for rape, as with the undisclosed release of the police officer Buyoukou
in the case trafficking of Ilioupoli (where members of the same ring
that extradited the 12-year-old also participated), and who today, after
the court decision, continues to threaten the girls he extradited, as
with the rapists of A.T. Omonias who walk free, as with the long-term
abuse and rape of a woman from Cameroon by another police officer
involved in the trafficking mafia.

We know very well that gender-based violence is systemic, institutional
and an integral part of modern totalitarianism. It is part of the
repressive violence of the state to terrorize the oppressed, of class
violence against the outcasts. We have no illusions about urban justice,
the police, the state and its institutions, knowing that all these
dimensions are not deviations but compose a message: That our lives, our
bodies, the lives and bodies of the poor, of people without access to
economic and political power, they are expendable, they are a commodity
in circuits of modern slavery, which operate undisturbed, under the
protection of the authorities, precisely because they are part of the
mechanisms of power and the way of imposing on the social body.

However, we will fight this battle with all our strength, knowing also
that its outcome must be a hope for every child, for every woman who
wants to break the silence, it must be the collective response to fear.
Because the only thing that can crush injustice is our solidarity, our
voice, our action, the collective struggle...

Saturday December 16
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