Last week’s direct action news from Greece

direct action report 7–15 Octo­ber
DIRECT ACTION NEWS FROM GREECE — http://directactiongr.blogspot.com

This blog is an attemp to cov­er, pub­li­cise and trans­late all known direct action news (most­ly con­cern­ing Greece but also near coun­tries as well), apart from the mass media medi­a­tion, pro­vid­ing an open data­base on sab­o­tage-van­dal­ism-riot­ing and oth­er fine pop­u­lar arts that blos­som through­out the ruins of our post-indus­tri­al soci­ety. It came as a per­son­al response to a wider need for all direct action to have its own prop­er spaces, in order to speak for itself, spaces avail­able to any­one that cares. So, i am will­ing to pub­lish all com­mu­niques and com­ments con­cern­ing the actions found here. There will not be pub­lished here actions claimed by any for­mal organ­i­sa­tions or par­ties. These gen­tle­men can ‑at least- afford their own image-mak­ing. You are wel­come to send your own reports to directactiongr@yahoo.gr

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LAST WEEK’S NEWS…

15 sur­veil­lance cam­eras destroyed, Poly­tech­ni­cal School (Athens, 15/10/2007)
Source & leaflet text (greek only): athens.indymedia.org

Today at 3 o’clock peo­ple from the self-man­aged infos­hop of the poly­tech­ni­cal school and oth­er com­pan­ions, broke down 15 sur­veil­lance cam­eras around the school’s library and destroyed the mon­i­tors and the whole con­trol room.

A leaflet explain­ing the rea­sons of this action cir­cu­lat­ed last days as well as dur­ing the action, slo­gans against sur­veil­lance and social con­trol were spray-paint­ed and two ban­ners were hanged on the library area.

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Arson at Eth­ni­ki Bank and rul­ing par­ty’s offices (Thes­sa­loni­ki, 15/10/2007)
Source (greek only): http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_15/10/2007_207901

A dou­ble arson attack was realised around 3:10 in the morn­ing, when a sub­sidiary of Eth­ni­ki Bank on Leon­tos Sofou Str. in the city cen­ter and the local offices of Nea Dimokra­tia (the greek rul­ing par­ty) were made tar­gets of gas-can­is­ter bomb­ings.

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Deputy edu­ca­tion min­is­ter’s office attacked (Athens, 14/10/2007)
Source: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100021_15/10/2007_88953

Uniden­ti­fied per­sons left a incen­di­ary device with gas can­is­ters that explod­ed in front of mr. Lyk­ourent­zos office, on the sec­ond floor of an apparte­ments block at Solonos Str. in cen­tral Athens.

Anoth­er res­i­dent of the block found the device and called the police, but in his effort to extin­guish the fire that burnst out, he got some minor burns him­self.

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Munic­i­pal Police offices attacked (Athens 12/10/2007)
Source (greek only): http://news.antenna.gr/articleDetail/0,3091,167424,00.html

Some 15 per­sons wear­ing hoods attacked the offices of the munic­i­pal police in Paleo Faliro, Athens, late Sat­ur­day night. They threw stones and caused minor dam­ages to the offices entrance.

Note: Two anar­chists are being detained for an alleged arson against a munic­i­pal police car in Faliro, Chris­sos­to­mos Kon­tore­vithakis and Mar­ios Tsoura­pas, (for more infor­ma­tion: http://www.geocities.com/anarcores/faliro3)

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Two banks burnt up (Athens, 12/10/2007)
Source (greek only): http://news.pathfinder.gr/greece/news/434581.html — http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=5592&subid=2&pubid=48619

A lit­tle before 22:00 around 20 per­sons wear­ing hoods attacked two banks (one “Eth­ni­ki” and one “Agroti­ki” bank) in Ilisia area in Athens. They broke the glass win­dows and threw molo­tov cock­tails inside the banks. They all man­aged to escape police forces and run to the Zografou uni­ver­si­ty area.

Lat­er on, the police arrest­ed eight per­sons but left them free because they found no evi­dence, except from one of them that car­ried a wood­en glob and will be pros­e­cut­ed.

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OTE telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions office fire­bombed (Athens, 10/10/2007)
Source (greek only): http://www.naftemporiki.gr/news/static/07/10/10/1423317.htm

A few min­utes before 6:00 a group of about ten unknown per­sons attacked the offices of OTE telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny in Exarcheia, Athens.

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Sports Muse­um under attack (Thes­sa­loni­ki, 07/10/2007)
Source (greek only): http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_0_07/10/2007_206771

Accord­ing to the news­pa­per’s report, a small group of uniden­ti­fied per­sons, a few min­utes before 3:00, hurled molo­tov cock­tails at the entrance of the Sports Muse­um, locat­ed near the Aris­to­tle Uni­ver­si­ty. The fire caused minor dam­ages and was extin­guished by the muse­um’s guards. The group left the area when the police arrived.

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Demon­stra­tors mess up “anti“terrorist con­ven­tion (Volos, 07/10/2007)
Source (greek only): Athens Indy­media

After a sol­i­dar­i­ty to the immi­grants march, demon­stra­tors invad­ed a con­ven­tion held at the Thes­salia Uni­ver­si­ty, dur­ing the crim­i­nol­o­gist Mairy Bossi’s speach.

Mairy Bossi has been the sci­en­tif­ic con­sul­tant of the min­istry of pub­lic order, she was as well will­ing to lead a “study of the social char­ac­ter­is­tics” of the 529 arrestees of the tech­ni­cal school’s occu­pa­tion in Athens, 1995, and she has also been a wit­ness of accu­sa­tion at the so-called ELA (peo­ple’s rev­o­lu­tion­ary strug­gle) jury, etc.
Her speach was inter­rupt­ed and she was forced to leave the room, when peo­ple threw cof­fees and snacks from the buf­fet at her.

The night before there was also an attack against the immi­grants con­cen­tra­tion cen­tre in Volos.

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