TRANS. BY ANARCO
NIHILIST PROJECT PARABELLUM
TRANS.
BY ANARCO NIHILIST PROJECT PARABELLUM
NOW THAT THE CIRCUS IS OVER…
I think that,
now is the time to express my opinion on some things that
have happened
recently.
Starting, I
would like to say that I remain imprisoned for 33 months
without being
sentenced by any court yet. This is, according to their
laws,
illegal, abusive, against the rules… As it is now known, the
highest limit
of pre-trial detention is 18 months.
But, by
deploying this new strategy of new custodies, which started
against our
organization and specifically against comrade Haris
Hadjimihelakis,
the highest limit of pre-trial detention was raised,
every time
one of us was about to reach it, from 18 to 30 months. The
exact same
thing happened to me and comrades Giorgos Polydoros and Olga
Ekonomidou,
whose 30 months pre-trial detention is coming to an end,
this
September. This has never been applied on an anarchist organization
in Greece
ever before.
Since April
of 2013, using the excuse that I am "dangerous", as I am a
member of the
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, they extended my detention
for another 6
months, raising the limit to 36 months (3 years).
Judging
things from their side, they did well. If they made the
"mistake"
of releasing any member of the CCF, that member would have
used their
freedom to continue the anarchist action, without giving a
shit about
the restricting orders of their release.
But because
they weren't sure if the court would manage to complete its
procedure in
the given timeline, they went a step further. On the 22th
of May in
2013, I was charged with new accusations. The reason was that,
as in May
2012 there was a chance that I was going to be released after
my 18 month
detention, I had given some of my photos to certain people
to make some
fake identities so that I could go underground the moment I
was released.
These people,
either from impotence or indifference, although I was not
released nor
did we have comradely or friendly relationships any more,
saw fit to
keep the fake identities for about a year in a house they
were using.
When they were later arrested for a robbery and as they
hadn't gotten
rid of them, they were found by the bastards of the
Anti-Terrorist
force. The result was me being charged with inciting
"terrorist
acts" and accused of having participated in the armed robbery
in Velvento,
in Kozani.
So now I am
in a situation that has never happened in Greece before.
Although I am
captured since November 2010, i will remain in custody
until
December of 2014. Which means, four years in prison as a
respondent
and in other words the experimental implementation of
indefinite
detention when it comes to cases concerning anarchist direct
action. And
there are more detentions on the way…
Obviously,
the incompetence and the lack of experience of the people who
held the
identities, is not the reason why I am in this situation. Me
believing
that, would seem foolish and short-sighted. If there were no
identities,
they would have "discovered" something else. I just thought
that it is
important to refer to these facts so that other comrades are
informed in
order to be even more careful with the evidence left behind.
Against us,
as an organization and as an anarchist tension, they use and
will use
every weapon there is available in their legal "arsenal", so
that we never
get out of here, following a legal path. We know that and
we are going
to move accordingly. We have never respected their "legal
culture"
and we are not going to start doing so now.
Unfortunately
apart from us, who are members of the Conspiracy, they
will try the
same thing with other people too. We see various arrests to
be called
arrests of members of the network of nucleus of the Conspiracy
Cells of
Fire. Simple cases like weapons possession, which would
otherwise
only be cases mentioned in the police news among many others,
are being
upgraded only because the cops think that the arrested have
something to
do with us. This is done in order to slander our
organization
and to boost the invincible media profile of oppression.
We have made
clear with our stance that the guerrilla actions of the
Conspiracy of
Cells of Fire make us proud and that we take the
responsibility
for them without caring about the consequences. Whoever
is a member
of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, is proud of it.
We wouldn't
negotiate this neither for less years in jail, nor in order
to be more
likable, nor for anything. But as I said various individuals,
who we would
never accept as our comrades even if they wanted to,
because we
are separated by an ocean of ideas and values, continue to be
prosecuted
for participating in our organization.
We, in order
to help them, make clear in every trial that such people
are involved,
that members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire are the
only ones who
have taken responsibility of its actions, defending our
organization's
dignity and history. One such person, accused for simple
possession of
weapons in his own words, has found himself, about a month
after myself,
in the same legal situation as me. This means that his
pre-trial
detention was prolonged from 30 to 36 months. In order for him
to be
released, he went on a hunger strike. So far, so good…
But the
circus that followed was something that none of us expected. We
saw the
largest part of the anarchist movement remain silent or even
assist back
stage, the hyenas of solidarity that rushed on this case.
How can you
accept as an anarchist to have a press conference along with
a
motherfucker like Giannis Panousis? DHMAR's parliament member, who is
the man
behind the writing of the correctional and legal code.
The same
parliament member who has been a target of our organization and
who is to
testify against us in the special court taking place in
Korydallos
prison. How can you accept other parties' members saying that
they will
also go on hunger strike in solidarity with you? Members of
parliament,
SYRIZA or any other party, are targets for attack and
definitely
not solidarians.
But also the
way that was chosen to present the case, saying that K.S.
is
"unlawfully detained" and that he is "innocent", prove the
defeatism
as the
dominant political choice of this movement.
Does this
mean that there are individuals rightfully detained?
Does this
mean that the "innocent" anarchists should be released and we
the
"guilty" should stay here? In order not to spoil the lifestyle in
which some
have turned anarchy into?
But obviously
the biggest share of responsibility for this circus,
belongs to
the accused himself. How dignified can you be and how can you
call yourself
an anarchist when you remain silent to the fact that
PASOK, DHMAR
and SYRIZA* make announcements favoring you?
How can you
remain silent to the fact that parliament members of SYRIZA,
like Voutsis,
makes questions in parliament about you? Unless someone
asked them
to…How can you allow political parties to demonstrate outside
the hospital
you are held in, like SYRIZA did? They just do their
business and
sneak in wherever you leave them space. If you don't put an
end to it and
you don't make your position clear, it is simple. You are
not an
anarchist and you have nothing to do with the struggle. You are
just kissing
ass in order to get out of jail.
But the
hunger strike itself was also a circus. Which hunger striker
goes into
hospital after 12 days and receives not one but two serums?
This is
something that doctor Fani Kyriakou said on 19/6, when she was
called to
testify in the trial against the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,
in which K.S.
is also being tried, which takes place in the women's
section of
Korydallos prison.
She
specifically mentioned that he is treated with dextrose serum and
with another
one, which contains electrolytes, vitamins etc. You are not
on a hunger
strike like that. The fact that his diabetes levels never
went public
as they have in previous hunger strikes, was quite expected.
The results
wouldn't have been comfortable. It's only natural that
people
outside of prison, don't know the procedure of a hunger strike,
but we can
judge based on our own experience.
When you
humiliate a means of struggle, in this way, it is just wrong.
You either
fight and remain true to your choices or you don't fight at
all.
You are not
an anarchist when you suck on political parties. If you are
an anarchist
you don't talk about national sovereignty or the Greek
people,
neither do you seek the need of a new pole of authority
(excerpts
from K.S's former texts).
You are an
anarchist when you proudly fight against any form of
authority,
even against those alienating forms of authority, that we all
have inside
us.
Political
parties are clearly our enemies, whether they are left or far
left. End of
story. SYRIZA can go fuck itself. They are never going to
see a vote
from us, as they did from some other "anarchists" last year
in the
electoral process carried out in prison. We don't cut deals with
the
opposition and likely tomorrow's government. Not even we are that
"corrupted"
...
Everyone
makes their choices and history will judge.
LONG LIVE
ANARCHY
AGAINST THIS
SOCIETY, UNTIL TOTAL LIBERATION
Gerasimos Tsakalos
Member of the Conspiracy of Cells of
Fire-FAI-IRF
PS. The above
text, expresses the opinion of all the comrades of the
Conspiracy of
Cells of Fire and a collective statement will follow.
Footnotes:
* DHMAR is a
social-democrat party consisted mainly by progressive
"intellectuals".
Until recently, it was part of Greece's government.
PASOK is the
oldest social-democrat party in Greece and it was in
government
multiple times. It also participates in the current
government of
Greece. SYRIZA is a leftist party widely considered the
hope of
change. It is the current opposition.
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