Join us for a showing of two new English-language released films about the insurrectionary situation in Greece. “The Story of a Bank Robbery” is about anarchist comrade Giannis Dimitrakis’s capture and trial by the state as a part of an alleged international group of rebels financing revolutionary projects by expropriating the expropriators! “Prison World” explores the 2007 prisoners revolt in Greece sparked by the beating of a now imprisoned Giannis by screws.

7pm Sunday 31st October at The Hut, 3 Fletchers Terrace, Cambridge (off Mill Road)

There will also be info about current struggles & hopefully lively discussion!

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Athens, 16 January 2005: A bank robbery is disturbed by a zealous security guard, which leads to the capture of anarchist Giannis (John) Dimitrakis.
For the police, Giannis is a member of the gang of the “robbers in black”, suspected to have been involved in a dozen bank-robberies to fund anarchist projects. Giannis was shot and arrested during the robbery and convicted to a 25-year sentence.

At the start of November 2009, in Greece, the Ministry for Citizen Protection set a price of 600,000 euros on the heads of the rest of the gang, at the same time arguing that they are not only robbers but also members of terrorist groups.

In the morning of Monday, April 23, 2007, prisoners at the prison of Malandrino in Fokida, mainland Greece, revolted. The spark igniting the revolt was the beating of anarchist prisoner Giannis Dimitrakis as well as the vicious, violent response of the guards to the protests staged by his co-prisoners. The revolt spread to at least 11 other prisons and lasted for 4 days.