The appeal brought by the appellate prosecutor's office against the
acquittal of the mother of the 12-year-old from Colonos for the crime of
pimping, however expected based on her cynicism of authority and her
contempt for a decision reached by a majority of the jury (while the
regular judges were drafted with the vulgar prosecutorial proposal),
remains infuriating. ---- This appeal constitutes a hostage for the
mother, but also for the 12-year-old girl herself and the rest of her
siblings. After all they suffered for having the courage to denounce the
trafficking ring, the rapists and their institutional protectors
(resulting in the mother being locked up and the child separated from
his family at a time when he needed support more than ever,) today they
prevent them from healing their wounds, deny them the possibility to
live their lives as they dream and as they deserve, as they won it with
their struggle. At the same time that the rapists (except Michos and
Christoforos) whom the child identified were simply convicted as
"customers", received probation and are moving around the family's
neighborhood, the prosecutors continue to terrorize the victims, with
new trials and new threats imprisonment.
On a second level, the appeal is made to vindicate the state
police-judicial apparatus in the face of the social outcry raised by the
prosecutor's proposal and the acquittal of the ring (since neither
Michos nor anyone else was convicted of human trafficking, while they
were not even found in the position of the accused, key members of the
ring, connected to the Greek police mafia, to the brothels and hotels
where the girl was raped and also involved in the Ilioupoli case). The
appeal therefore comes to retroactively legitimize all the hitherto
unacceptable manipulations, the imprisonment of the mother who
complained while the police were indifferent, the intimidation of the
child who spoke and identified the rapists, and above all it comes to
remove from the frame again the circuit which is washed away
systematically by the authorities, insisting on the construction that
"there is no circuit - the mother is to blame"). This opens the way for
even Michos to "fall into trouble" afterwards, while he was convicted of
pimping in the first instance.
And finally, this move aims to drown out any sense that solidarity has
won and that our struggles have the power to overturn state designs. We
do not forget that both the construction of the mother's guilt and the
prosecutor's proposed exemption of Mihos from the charges of rape and
pimping, were broken thanks to the dynamic mobilizations that took place
and culminated after the prosecutor's proposal, thanks to the expression
of social anger and of solidarity with the 12-year-old girl and the
mother, thanks to the voices that came together saying that they are not
alone and that the state is washing away the rapists.
The message of this appeal, therefore, concerns us all. No complacency,
no trust in the state of rapists and murderers! Justice will be decided
in the streets.
Group Against Patriarchy | Anarchist Political Organization - Federation
of Collectivities
https://apo.squathost.com/schetika-me-tin-isangeliki-efesi-kata-tis-athootikis-apofasis-gia-ti-mitera-tis-12chronis-apo-ton-kolono/
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acquittal of the mother of the 12-year-old from Colonos for the crime of
pimping, however expected based on her cynicism of authority and her
contempt for a decision reached by a majority of the jury (while the
regular judges were drafted with the vulgar prosecutorial proposal),
remains infuriating. ---- This appeal constitutes a hostage for the
mother, but also for the 12-year-old girl herself and the rest of her
siblings. After all they suffered for having the courage to denounce the
trafficking ring, the rapists and their institutional protectors
(resulting in the mother being locked up and the child separated from
his family at a time when he needed support more than ever,) today they
prevent them from healing their wounds, deny them the possibility to
live their lives as they dream and as they deserve, as they won it with
their struggle. At the same time that the rapists (except Michos and
Christoforos) whom the child identified were simply convicted as
"customers", received probation and are moving around the family's
neighborhood, the prosecutors continue to terrorize the victims, with
new trials and new threats imprisonment.
On a second level, the appeal is made to vindicate the state
police-judicial apparatus in the face of the social outcry raised by the
prosecutor's proposal and the acquittal of the ring (since neither
Michos nor anyone else was convicted of human trafficking, while they
were not even found in the position of the accused, key members of the
ring, connected to the Greek police mafia, to the brothels and hotels
where the girl was raped and also involved in the Ilioupoli case). The
appeal therefore comes to retroactively legitimize all the hitherto
unacceptable manipulations, the imprisonment of the mother who
complained while the police were indifferent, the intimidation of the
child who spoke and identified the rapists, and above all it comes to
remove from the frame again the circuit which is washed away
systematically by the authorities, insisting on the construction that
"there is no circuit - the mother is to blame"). This opens the way for
even Michos to "fall into trouble" afterwards, while he was convicted of
pimping in the first instance.
And finally, this move aims to drown out any sense that solidarity has
won and that our struggles have the power to overturn state designs. We
do not forget that both the construction of the mother's guilt and the
prosecutor's proposed exemption of Mihos from the charges of rape and
pimping, were broken thanks to the dynamic mobilizations that took place
and culminated after the prosecutor's proposal, thanks to the expression
of social anger and of solidarity with the 12-year-old girl and the
mother, thanks to the voices that came together saying that they are not
alone and that the state is washing away the rapists.
The message of this appeal, therefore, concerns us all. No complacency,
no trust in the state of rapists and murderers! Justice will be decided
in the streets.
Group Against Patriarchy | Anarchist Political Organization - Federation
of Collectivities
https://apo.squathost.com/schetika-me-tin-isangeliki-efesi-kata-tis-athootikis-apofasis-gia-ti-mitera-tis-12chronis-apo-ton-kolono/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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