GERASIMOS TSAKALOS:NOW THAT THE CIRCUS IS OVER…

TRANS. BY ANARCO NIHILIST PROJECT PARABELLUM

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 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.