Athens is burnt from police fire against anarchist protesters.The 2500 people march ends up with 250 prosecutions.Slogans from the protest:"fascists stab,democrats shoot",
19/5, Athens: After a successful 2,500-strong antifascist demo the cops launched a full-scale witch-hunt prosecuting over 100 people, in an obvious act of revenge for the humiliating attack of a police unit and the partial expropriation of its equipment on May 15. The latter came as a response to the police shootings at the Polytechnic School of Athens on May 10.
The scale of last night's police operation is only comparable to those that took place during the Olympics. Over 100 people were prosecuted - 13 of them were charged with felonies and 6 with misdemeanours. Throughout the night the city's streets were packed with undercover cops and riot police. A spontaneous solidarity demonstration was formed outside the police headquarters, only to be attacked with tear gas by the riot cops. People were arrested in the streets, cafes and even house raids.
Once again the corporate media fully covered police repression and some even uncritically reported the cops' blatant lie that a hand grenade was found where the solidarity demo took place (!) Some of those prosecuted reported on indymedia that they were picked by masked cops - such tactics were applied by the police during the military coup (1967-74).
The scale of last night's police operation is only comparable to those that took place during the Olympics. Over 100 people were prosecuted - 13 of them were charged with felonies and 6 with misdemeanours. Throughout the night the city's streets were packed with undercover cops and riot police. A spontaneous solidarity demonstration was formed outside the police headquarters, only to be attacked with tear gas by the riot cops. People were arrested in the streets, cafes and even house raids.
Once again the corporate media fully covered police repression and some even uncritically reported the cops' blatant lie that a hand grenade was found where the solidarity demo took place (!) Some of those prosecuted reported on indymedia that they were picked by masked cops - such tactics were applied by the police during the military coup (1967-74).
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any info on prisoners
21.05.2005 19:54
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22.05.2005 16:41
By principle the Greek comrades do not anounce the names of those arrested.
Of about mor than 150 arrests, 13 people were accused for criminal offences and they will be kept in prison until the trial (Monday), and 6 more who were accused of minor offences were released.
martha