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Νέο Ηράκλειο 1/11/24. Η αντιφασιστική - αντικρατική συγκέντρωση στην πλατεία νέου Ηρακλείου έχει ξεκινήσει. Ορατή παρουσία μπάτσων σε κοντινή απόσταση από τη συγκέντρωση. Land&Freedom
New Heraklion 1/11/24. The anti-fascist - anti-state gathering in the square of New Heraklion has begun. Visible presence of police in close proximity to the gathering. Land&Freedom
Memorial posters for Killah P (Pavlos Fyssas), a 34-year-old antifascist rapper, who was stabbed to death by a gang of Golden Dawn nazis on the 18th of September 2013.
He died protecting his friends from being attacked.
We will never forget him, and we will never forgive.
A rare video depicting antifa rapper Pavlos Fyssas (murdered by neonazis on a day like today on 18 September 2013) singing a song dedicated to Carlo Giuliani that was murdered by the police on 20 July 2001 (Genoa) and to 15 years old Alexis Grigoropoulos that was murdered by the police on 6 December 2008 (Athens).
The video footage is from 21 June 2011.
We do not forget,
We do not forgive
December 6, 2023 - Thousands took to the streets across Greece to commemorate the police murder of 15-year old anarchist Alexis Grigoropoulos in 2008. In the second gif you can see riot police attacking the memorial at the site of Alexis' murder in Exarcheia, Athens, with tear gas grenades. [video]/[video]/[video]
For the first time in decades, in 2020 longstanding cultural institutions around Europe were forced by the coronavirus to close their doors to visitors and employees. From March that year, cinemas and theatres began to shut while concerts were cancelled.
Two years into the triple crisis—health, economic, social—caused by the pandemic, some sectors still haven’t recovered. The cultural sector has suffered a great deal, because of the close relationship between its ‘consumption’ and public entertainment, with no one quite yet knowing whether it is safe to return to cultural spaces.
This is especially true of Greece, whose cultural sector has particularities which hinder its recovery.
Video by Perseus 999
Greece is slowly but surely coming closer to the great feast of Greek Orthodox Easter, or Pascha — a religious occasion celebrated here with more gusto than in many other Western Christian countries.
Unlike most European nations, which will celebrate on April 4, Greece will adhere to the date for Greek Easter, which falls very late this year — on May 2.
Orthodox Churches still use the Julian calendar for Easter, meaning at some times that there can be a weeks-long lag behind the Gregorian.
So, for example, on Mount Athos — an autonomous religious state in northern Greece under the protection of Athens — the residents there are always a number of days behind the rest of Europe.
Due to this difference in the measurement of days, the last time the two great Christian denominations shared a date for Easter was in 2017.
‘I trust the Greek police. You are the state’, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek Prime Minister during 1990-1993 and father of the current Prime Minister.
Greece has been in a strict Covid-19 lockdown since the beginning of November 2020, during which people are allowed to leave their homes only after sending a text message to the authorities. On Sunday 7th March 2021, following a routine police patrol, at the Nea Smyrni square in Athens, observing the compliance with lockdown measures, police officers threw a citizen to the ground and attacked him with batons (which have been banned due to them being metallic). The video of the unprovoked attack was circulated widely and even reached mainstream media, raising a public outcry against increasing police brutality. Thousands took to the streets over the next days. While most demonstrations were peaceful, violent clashes between the police and the protesters erupted, leading to one police officer getting hurt. A video from that day shows police officers vengefully shouting: ‘Let’s go and kill them. They are finished’.
Many demonstrators were arrested and taken to the General Police Department (GADA), where they were detained. Shocking scenes of torture at the hands of the Greek police have been described by those detained there. These include repeated beatings while they were hooded and handcuffed, threats of rape and sexual assault, denial of medical assistance and even incitement to suicide.
The same day people were assaulted and attacked by police officers in state buildings the Greek Prime Minister addressed the public and appealed for calm. ‘It should serve as a wake-up call that the life of a policeman was endangered’, adding, in another statement, that police brutality does not exist; on the contrary, Greece is facing a systematic retreat of the state before violence, in the name of the human right-ism of some. In these statements, like his father 30 years ago, he set the tone for the state’s authoritarian logic and complicity with police brutality.
A huge Saharan dust cloud, measuring up to 800 kilometers (500 miles) in length, is moving towards Greece, meteorologists warned on Monday.
The dust and sand will hit Greece’s mainland on Tuesday, creating a suffocating atmosphere.
Epirus, West Sterea, Crete, Athens and Attica and the Peloponnese are the regions to be most affected by the phenomenon.
Meteorologists say the sand and dust in Greece will be carried by powerful winds caused by a combination of low and high pressure systems in the Eastern Mediterranean.
“We were all forced on to the boat. If we looked up they shouted at us and hit us in the head. Then they stopped at a place in the sea where there were no other boats, they left us.”
Mustafa, his wife and two young children had only been on the Greek island of Lesbos a few hours when, they say, they were driven in a van to the coast, beaten by masked men and then taken out to sea on a raft and abandoned there.
Cyprus rebuked for ‘violent’ pushbacks of boats carrying asylum seekers Read more Their story is one of many and lies at the heart of what rights groups, the UN and the EU are warning is a crisis for the right to asylum at Europe’s borders – with “pushbacks” so persistent and severe they are leading to a huge drop in arrivals across the sea into Greece.
The UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) recently warned that many EU borders – from Greece to the Balkans to France – are increasingly impossible to pass for vulnerable asylum-seeking families such as Mustafa’s. There was a 85% drop in arrivals by sea to Greece in 2020 compared with 2019 and Notis Mitarachi, the country’s migration minister, has repeatedly pointed to the reduction in “flows” of asylum seekers to the Aegean islands.
Mustafa’s own journey began in northern Afghanistan. The family travelled through Turkey and crossed on a small boat with 12 others. They had paid €1,200 (£1,030) each for the journey, selling almost all their possessions to fund it after a militant group had threatened Mustafa’s life.
After stumbling on to the beach, a local NGO, Aegean Boat Report, helped them find the camp where they hoped to claim asylum. Instead, they say when they got there, they were met by police.
Hospitals in Athens and Attica are on Red Alert due to increase of coronavirus infections and intubated patients wait in normal wards for an ICU bed The Greek government admitted on Wednesday that thε public health care system is “beleaguered by an increase of Covid-patients.” According to Hospital workers’ union there is hardly any ICU bed available in Athens and that 124 intubated patients were treated in normal wards.
One of the biggest hospitals in the Greek capital, Erythros Stavros (Red Cross) has been ordered to evacuate from non-Covid patients and turn into a Covid-only facility, president of Hospital Workers union POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos said on Wednesday. Skai Tv reported that 17 patients have been already transferred to othe rpublic hospitals.
In statements to the press, government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni admitted that experts have logged an increase in Covid-19 infections in recent days. She claimed, however, that the increase was circumstantial.
21-year-old Aris Papazacharoudakis speaks to “Ef.Syn.” for his abduction by police one day after the incidents in Nea Smyrni, denounces his long torture in GADA and states that from now on, Michalis Chrysochoidis has the sole responsibility for everything that happens to him or his co-accused who was remanded in custody accused of attempted murder of a police officer without, as he says, being able to support the indictment.
• You are among those arrested who were taken to the interrogator last Saturday and released on restrictive terms. At first you faced the charge of attempted murder of a police officer, but you did not have to testify for it as in the end they did not attribute it to you. When was your arrest and where? I was arrested the day after the events in Nea Smyrni, a few meters from the building that hosted the assembly of the Masovka Anarchist Collective, of which I am a member. I was involved in the protest against police violence, there is no evidence to blame me for anything or to link me to the incident. It was about 19:30 and I was about to take a taxi home before the curfew came into force. Initially, a motorcycle with two people wearing hoods stopped in front of me, I showed my ID and within seconds a car without license plates arrived next to me and while it was moving I was thrown on the hood. They handcuffed me behind my back, placed a hood over my head and put me in the car punching and kicking me. Until then I did not know if I was dealing with police or the mafia. As it turned out, maybe it would have been better to deal with the mafia. Through the hood I could see faintly, but they hit me whenever I raised my head. At one point I heard a radio but not from the car and realized that the car was accompanied by motorbikes. Prior to my abduction, I had been informed of the disappearance of my brotherly friend, who is now in custody facing baseless charges.
• What do you know about your friend’s arrest? It happened next to his house but while he was at work. He works as a delivery driver and while distributing food, he was literally abducted. Because he was running late, his work contacted his family and for a long time we were worrying he had been in a car accident. Especially since his mother called GADA and was assured that her son was not being held and the family made a disappearance statement to the Police Department. How could they have known that it was them that had disappeared him …
February 10, 2021 - Thousands demonstrated and clashed with riot police in Athens and Thessaloniki in protest against a new right-wing education bill that would place police on university campuses, among other restrictive plans.
This move is incredibly controversial in a country where the presence of police in universities has been banned since the 1980s. Police were barred from university campuses in Greece in 1982, in response to the Polytechnic uprising years earlier. In 1973, students protesting the country’s right-wing military dictatorship were brutally murdered by police and military forces at the Athens Polytechnic University. [video]
As many most likely expected, there was a bit of a coronavirus exodus out of the Greek capital on Friday, with a great deal of the public apparently desiring to head back to the family village to wait out the new lockdown.
Throngs of people were seen doing their shopping today, before the strict coronavirus measures go into effect at 6 AM on Saturday morning, although all grocery stores an butcher shops will remain open for the three-week lockdown.
Additionally, supermarkets and all other food stores will also be open from 9 AM to 5 PM this Sunday.
Others were seen forming lines at banks in order to pay their bills, according to Greek media reports. All banking during the lockdown must be limited to transactions that cannot be accomplished online.
