Direct action around Greece reports (1/2008) — banks, police cameras, luxury cars get it; rats saved

Attack against a bank, 14 tak­en into cus­tody (Athens, 30/1/2008)

Accord­ing to a report at: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=821100

There was an attack with sledge ham­mers, stones and paints against the Eth­ni­ki Bank in Gizi dis­trict (were a com­pan­ion was arrest­ed after an armed expro­pri­a­tion). After they left, police spread into the area and took into cus­tody around 14 per­sons from the area.
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Police cam­era destroyed, one per­son tak­en into cus­tody (Thes­sa­loni­ki, 29/1/2008)

From reports at athens.indymedia.org

Around 11:30 the pow­er sup­ply of a police cam­era was sab­o­taged in pub­lic. Riot-police­men and motor­bike cops attacked the peo­ple on their way back, and man­aged to take into cus­tody one per­son. Lat­er on two more per­sons were also tak­en to the police head­quar­ters, but set free after a few hours.

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Series of incen­di­ary attacks (Athens-Thes­sa­loni­ki, 21/1/2008)

Report in eng­lish: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/21/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Arson-Spree.php

Accord­ing to a report in “Eleft­herotip­ia” (Greek only): http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=25251808

From 12:51 to 01:18 the fol­low­ing tar­gets were attacked:

Athens:

12:51: Porsche deal­er­ship, Halandri‑4 cars dam­aged.
01:00: Eurobank open24 sub­sidiary, Ega­leo
01:05: Lux­u­rius car expo­si­tion “Car Col­lec­tion”, Nea Erithrea-16 cars and one motor­cy­cle dam­aged
01:08: Eurobank sub­sidiary, Dafni
01:08: Piraeus bank sub­sidiary, Dafni
01:09: City­bank sub­sidiary, cen­tral Athens
01:15: Eurobank sub­sidiary, Nea Filadelfia
01:17: PV MOTORS deal­er­ship, Argiroupoli
01:18: PPC crane vehi­cle, Keramikos

Anoth­er incen­di­ary device was found untouched in the entrance of an “Eth­ni­ki” bank, in Peri­s­teri, and was car­ried to the foren­sic office of the police.

Thes­sa­loni­ki:

Two arson attacks occured with­in five min­utes. A ppc car was dam­aged, as well as an ATM of Mil­len­ni­um bank in Analip­si.

Com­mu­nique sent to directactiongr@yahoo.gr:

“Last night’s series of incen­di­ary attacks against lux­u­ri­ous car deal­er­ships in Halan­dri, Kifis­sia and Argiroupoli, bank sub­sidiaries in Nea filadelfia, Dafni, Ega­leo, Ano Patisia, Dafni and in Thes­sa­loni­ki at 117, Mar­tiou Street, and against PPC (the state-run pow­er com­pa­ny) cars out­side its offices in both Athens and Thes­sa­loni­ki, is under­tak­en by the Con­spir­a­cy of Cells of Fire Thes­sa­loni­ki-Athens.

We select­ed to strike the bank sub­sidiares because the con­sti­tute the sym­bols-tools of explo­ration and of the eco­nom­ic empire. In par­al­lel, the banks are the mod­ern day cor­po­ra­tions that accred­it with loa­nee dreams the con­sumers, so that they would beglam­our vol­un­tar­i­ly their mis­ery and their eco­nom­ic state of cap­tiv­i­ty.

We attacked the PPC cor­po­ra­tion as a response to the dozens assas­si­na­tions of work­ers that died in its work­place-pris­ons because of the lack of secu­ri­ty mea­sures, as well as for the dead­ly effects (such as can­cer) that appear at the zones around its pow­er plants.

We set on fire the deal­er­ships of lux­u­ri­ous cars that form pres­ti­gious sym­bols of author­i­ty inside the com­mod­i­ty fetishist fren­zy that has tak­en over the metrop­o­lis. We do not respect the law-abid­ing cit­i­zens’ wet dreams for a fast car in expense of the slow sui­cide offeed by the mod­ern life style.

The rev­o­lu­tion­ary char­ac­ter of an eco­nom­ic-cap­i­tal­ist tar­gets arson is n’t found only in its phys­i­cal destruc­tionm but also in the ille­gal­i­ty of the action itself. In the deci­sion to attack.

In this com­bat­ant sit­u­a­tion, there are also loss­es. Accord­ing­ly, we ded­i­cate last night’s attacks in Thes­sa­loni­ki and Athens to the empris­oned anar­chist V. Botzatzis who is accused for 3 arson attacks against 3 tar­gets, as weel as to the 3 fugi­tive com­rades accused under the same case, and that chose the way of a proud escape, than to give their­selves in.

We don’t for­get any empris­oned com­rade. We will be back soon…

Con­spir­a­cy of Cells of Fire Thes­sa­loni­ki-Athens”

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Bank fire­bombed and respon­si­bil­i­ty claim (Athens, 19/1/2008)

Accord­ing to reports (in greek) at athens.indymedia.org unknown per­sons attacked with molo­tov cock­tails a sub­sidiary of eurobank in Petralona dis­trict (Athens). Accord­ing to ANA-MPA news agency, the arson caused sev­er dam­ages to the bank. A group claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty by an anony­moys e‑mail to directactiongr@yahoo.gr stat­ing:

The “Cells of Incen­di­ary Sol­i­dar­i­ty” (Pirines Empris­tikis Alli­leg­gyis) claim respon­si­bil­i­ty for the arson at Eurobank on Tri­on Ier­arhon Street in Petralona, on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 19, in sol­i­dar­i­ty to the empris­oned anar­chist Vagge­lis Botzatzis, accused with 3 arson attacks against gov­ern­men­tal-eco­nom­ic tar­gets and to the three com­pan­ions that are fugi­tive under the same case.

The insti­tu­tions of state-run enter­pris­es, car agen­cies and banks, have been and will be today’s tar­gets, tar­gets that every rev­o­lu­tion­ary choos­es to attack. These attack are born from a total per­cep­tion and a route of actions against the cap­i­tal­ist-eco­nom­ic dom­i­na­tion. These words here do not mean to recog­nise their-selves in a “typ­i­cal claim of respon­si­bil­i­ty” because their mean­ing is found in the trans­mis­sion of the rev­o­lu­tion­ary flame. WE ARE ON WAR. The per­se­cu­tions can­not stop the incen­di­ary actions and the rebel­lious con­sciences. Hon­our to those that in their lives, they set their own time and place, their “how” and “why”…

The ash­es of the burnt banks for the fugi­tive com­pan­ions and the empris­oned anar­chist Vagge­lis Botzatzis.

Cells of Incen­di­ary Sol­i­dar­i­ty

Note: Vagge­lis Botzatzis is an anar­chist from Thes­sa­loni­ki, in a pre-tri­al empris­on­ment in Komo­ti­ni pris­ons, accused for arsons in a french brand car yard, a mil­le­ni­um bank sub­sidiary and Pub­lic Pow­er Com­pa­ny vehi­cles. He is per­se­cut­ed based on a secu­ri­ty guard’s accu­sa­tions. Apart from him, anoth­er three anar­chists are fugi­tive for the same case.
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Attacks on three banks (Athens, 17/1/2008)

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=815410
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=815788

2 year after the arrest of Gian­nis Dim­i­trakis after a bank rob­bery, on 12 o’clock, were realised three simul­ta­ne­ous attacks on three banks and an ATM in cen­tral Athens.

Piraeus Bank on 12, George Street, Atti­ki Bank on 23 Omirou Street and Eth­ni­ki bank on 30 Omirou Street, had their glass­es bro­ken and oth­er dam­ages. An ATM was also dam­aged.

There were leaflets thrown around the banks stat­ing:
2 years lat­er…
WE DON’T FORGET, WE DON’T FORGIVE
sol­i­dar­i­ty to G. Dim­i­trakis, who is empris­oned for the bank robery at Eth­ni­ki Bank on Solonos Street at 16.01.2006
Sol­i­dar­i­ty to the 3 fugi­tive com­rades

as well as “FIRE TO THE BANKS”
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Lab-rats lib­er­at­ed from tech­ni­cal insti­tute (Thes­sa­loni­ki, 16/1/2007)

A report on this action can be found at athens.indymedia.org where there are also more pho­tos and a short video, as well as a text in greek, trans­lat­ed here:

“On Jan­u­ary 15th, in the Thes­sa­loni­ki TEI (tech­ni­cal insti­tute) was pro­grammed a prac­ti­cal exper­i­ment on ani­mals alive in front of the stu­dents. This hideous action would be realised if some peo­ple from Thes­sa­loni­ki was n’t mobi­lized. Around twen­ty per­sons vis­it­ed the TEI and took not only one, as it was to expect­ed, but four ani­mals (lab rats). Lat­er on the four lab rats were set free in the nature were they should be from the very begin­ing.

We know that these spe­cif­ic ani­mals will not sur­vive for a long time in the nature, since they were born in a lab. Though, we believe it is bet­ter for them to die in the nature than in a lab or a cage.”
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Car deal­er­ship fire-bombed (Athens, 17/1/2008)

Source (greek only): http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=11424&subid=2&tag=8334&pubid=336523#

Two self-made explo­sive devis­es were placed under­neath two cars in a Suzu­ki deal­er­ship in Peri­s­teri, Athens. One of them explod­ed at 3:45 in the night caus­ing minor dam­ages, while the oth­er one was found untouched by the police.

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Bank arson and anony­mous communique(Athens, 1/1/2008)

Source (greek only): http://news.pathfinder.gr/greece/news/449097.html

“The first fact report­ed to the police for 2008 was an arson attack 20 min­utes after mid­night at the sub­sidiary of Geni­ki Bank at 75 Kipselis street in Athens. Uniden­ti­fied per­sons plant­ed an incen­di­ary device break­ing the glass entrance door.”

Anony­mous group claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty via e‑mail to directactiongr@yahoo.gr):

“The attack at Geni­ki Bank on 1/1/2008 was in sol­i­dar­i­ty to empris­oned fight­ers.

The same time that in the city cen­tre “cel­e­bra­tions” are organ­ised to wel­come the new year we, by strik­ing, mean to prove that the flame of nega­tion won’t cease to burn nor even this new year, against any repres­sive plan.

Free­dom to Chr. Kon­tore­vithakis and M. Tsoura­pas.”