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Saturday May 26: Fascists in Kipseli market, Athens

Published on May 27, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .

Saturday afternoon in Kipseli neighbourhood:
Around 60 Neonazi and 20 motor bikes made one of their ritualised “interventions” on the weekly markets of Athens. Migrants crossing their path were attacked and insulted, fascist slogans were shouted… At some point police teams of DIAS (motor bikes) arrived at the place who, according to witnesses, tried to control the papers of some of the Neonazis. The Neonazi and Parliamentarian of the fascist party “Golden Dawn” Panagiotarou as seen in the video, tried to show by whatever means that his party (GD) is “antisystemic” and that it is being “prosecuted” by the Greek police. In the following the parliamentarian started insulting god and the world and destructing a parked car. Nevertheless, he was not arrested as it happens i.e. with other parliamentarians from left wing parties. While Panagiotarou is claiming that his party is antisystemic, it actually seems as if GD unfortunately is very close to the Greek police and vice versa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hd_9GJgVd4g

source: rising galaxy (in Greek)

Further constructions in Amigdaleza detention centre on hold

Published on May 26, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

220 undocumented migrants are detained currently in the first of the planned 30 new detention centres. The Ministry of Citizen Protection is planning to continue the construction after the elections and to move on with the creation of the second new type detention centre also in Attica and the third in Deskati, Grevenon.

tvxs (in greek)

Greek doctors refuse to stop treating undocumented migrants

Published on May 17, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

Hospital doctors announce decision to ignore the Ministry of Health directive and to continue treating undocumented migrants
Prior to the May 6th elections, the minister of health, Loverdos, announced undocumented migrants were to no longer receive any treatment in public hospitals in Greece. In response, hospital doctors issued, through their union body, the following statement

Doctors:

“We will treat undocumented migrants. No to Loverdos’ credentials to the [Nazis of the] Golden Dawn!”

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Three migrants victim of hate crimes in Kalithea, Athens

Published on May 10, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .

The three migrants (two Egyptians and one Palestinian) were attacked by Greek citizens who came on motor bikes and were holding rods and chains around 11pm on Tuesday, May 8. While the perpetrators escaped the three victims were transferred to the hospital.
Following the elections and the high percentage of votes the fascist party “Golden Dawn” gained, racist attacks are on the rise again.

I Avgi (in Greek)

May 9: Police and Nazis in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists in central Athens, in broad daylight

Published on May 9, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .

May 9: Police and Nazis in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists in central Athens, in broad daylight
On May 9, 2012, only days after the election day in which 1 in 2 police voted Nazi, the two conducted a joint operation against the migrant street traders around the Athens School of Economics (ASOEE) and the anarchists who joined in their support. Skirmishes of this kind have been taking place for a while now, with riot police attempting to enforce a dogma of ‘zero tolerance’ and a ‘clean Athens’, in a discourse echoing that of the Golden Dawn (the Nazi party) and yet enforced by ‘socialist’ ministers Chrisochoidis (Public Order) and Loverdos (Health).

On Wednesday’s operation the police openly co-operated with members of the Nazi group Golden Dawn. The two have cooperated many times in the past, whether openly or in disguise. In the videos and photos below members of the GD chant ‘Greece belongs to the Greeks’, sway crow-bars and throw stones to the anarchists who chant ‘the tin-cans have yet to rot’, a reference to the execution (even slaying with tin-cans) of members of the Nazi-collaborating Security Battalions by partisans of EAM-ELAS in September 1944, following the battle between them in the town of Meligalas, SW Peloponnese.

by Occupied london

Serious violation of human rights and medical confidentiality by the Greek Police

Published on May 3, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Athens, April 30, 2012
Serious violation of human rights and medical confidentiality through the disclosure of data and photographs of an HIV positive female prostitute by the Greek Police.
In an unprecedented stigma action, the competent authorities of Greece publicized, through a press release by the Greek Police, the full details, photographs and medical record’s information of a 22 year old prostitute, from Russia.

The unprecedented racist initiative of the Greek authorities sparked a number of articles in the press and media reports naming and shaming the woman, publishing her personal data, stigmatising her, as well as every person wholives with HIV. This action is damaging the image of our country, after which it ceases to be a modern, well-governed and humane state.
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Migrants attacked and beaten by police in Kipseli, Athens

Published on May 3, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , .

On May 3, 2012 around 18:30 a police patrol walking along the pedestrian in Fokionos Negri in Kipseli, Athens headed towards a group of three migrants sitting and talking on the square. The officers asked the migrants to follow them into a calm side street where they beat the up. They never asked to control their papers.
One Palestinian migrant was hurt so badly that he fainted. One of his friends could escape; the other is not severely injured. The Palestinian 19-year-old was transferred to a hospital at 20. As eye witnesses reported the officers had been directed by a well-known member of the far right party golden dawn to the migrants.

Squat ESIEA Kipseli

Fotos of Amigdaleza detention centre

Published on May 2, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

fotos by Yanis Lakos

First detention centre opened in Amigdaleza, Athens a week before the elections

Published on April 30, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

On Sunday (April 29) the first 56 migrants were transfered into the new detention centre in Amigdaleza, Athens. The detention centre consists of 52 containers each built for four detainees. The containers are split into three sections and the area is guarded by the Greek police.

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Albanian man shot to death by unknown driver

Published on April 29, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , .

On April 29 a 58-year-old Albanian was hit by a car in Menidi Athens. Friends and other people reacted angry on the driver who could escape. He returned back though and shot on the people standing around the place of the “accident”. Another Albanian was shot to death while a Pakistani man was injured. The police is investigating the case. The driver escaped once again.

iNEws (in Greek)