The State and capital, seeking to impose social peace in these days of war in which we are living, repress social struggle, accuse and imprison those who fight.
Anarchist Christos Stratigopoulos is in prison for having claimed responsibility for a robbery in a bank in Trikala, Greece in October 2009. From July 2011 he should have been allowed a temporary release and been finally released a few months later.
But the cops and judges have extended his imprisonment by trying to attribute another robbery to him, at a bank in Cephalonia in July 2009.
With false accusations, the State is trying to set up another case of repression against revolutionaries in Christos’s case.
The accusers, with false evidence and so-called witnesses and imaginative policemen, have tried to destroy him physically and socially.
Foreseeing our massive participation in all forms of social struggle that evolve into social class conflict, this solid State tactic seeks to impose fear through the exemplary imprisonment of anyone who struggles.
Dionysios Manolatos, a resident of Cephalonia, either pushed to consciously become a snitch or to try to gain some personal benefit,has become a false witness for the police.
The young cop Sokratis Markatos, keen to climb the hierarchy in his job, has falsified evidence and handed it to the local press so as to receive medals and free himself from this impenetrable case.
THEY DON’T SCARE US, THEY MAKE US FURIOUS
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON.
NONE OF OUR COMRADES HOSTAGE OF THE STATE
THE CRIMINALS ARE THE BANKERS AND CAPITALISTS.
FREEDOM TO CHRISTOS STRATIGOPOULOS.
Assembly of Solidarity to Imprisoned and Accused Fighters Saturday, 24 December 2011, Athens, Greece.
(extract from: “Solidarity with the Anarchist Fighters and all those Imprisoned for Subversive Actions or Participation in Social Struggles in Greece”) Act for Freedom-Elephant Editions.
