Greece: Update on the Health Status of Comrade Marianna M.

On 31/10/2024, after an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipi, Athens, the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in combat for social and class liberation, and the anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, was severely injured and hospitalized in the Evangelismos Hospital for two weeks.

During the weeks that Marianna M. remained hospitalized, she was monitored 24/7 by anti-terrorist police in the ICU, resulting in constant observation and commentary even in the most intimate moments.

This completely deprived Marianna of her privacy and her right to be treated as a patient at a time when she had not yet been arrested.

While she was still unconscious, the anti-terrorist police ordered the taking of fingerprints and a blood sample for DNA analysis, without consent. The interrogator of the anti-terrorist unit did not hesitate to intervene in her medical treatment, trying to pressure the comrade to give testimony, despite the fact that both her physical and psychological condition made it unfeasible.

Just one day after her second operation (15/11) and while she was still injured, with sutures and open wounds on her face, her hospitalization was interrupted and she was taken to Korydallos prison.

The comrade was unable to walk or stand on her own, feeling dizzy and in pain from the anesthesia and surgery the day before. A week after arriving in Korydallos, she was taken to the hospital, but only to remove the stitches.

In this situation, the management of the Evangelismos Hospital approved her discharge under the order of the twenty-second formal interrogator of the anti-terrorist unit.

The comrade was transferred to prison without hospital care and without any medical treatment or medicines, despite not being fully recovered.

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The torture of the wounded comrade continues in Korydallos to this day.

From the first days, she was not given enough antibiotics, painkillers, gauze, or other supplies she needed. She was forced to remain in a dirty cell, full of cockroaches, without any hygienic or habitable conditions.

A month and a half later, she, along with the rest of the defendants, was forced into a mandatory DNA collection by the counter-terrorism unit inside the prison.

To this day (three months later) the diagnostic tests (especially CT scan) required by external doctors and the doctors of the Evangelismos Hospital, have not been performed or initiated.

The CT scan is essential because of a hematoma that still causes dizziness and carries the risk of neurological problems.

On the contrary, the prison doctor told her that he would only admit the CT scan if she suffered an epileptic seizure.

Additionally, fluid has accumulated in her joint, resulting in an inability to bend properly, walk, or stand without support.

Marianna has suffered damage to her nervous system and neurological issues have arisen that cause her eye to malfunction.

Her eye still does not heal, placing her at constant risk of infection due to her inability to close it properly and her lack of access to necessary medical care. She has already had an infection in her eye and another in the stitches of her chest.

In this critical situation, her medical files arrived from the hospital only two and a half months later and, although a CT scan was performed on her knee, she still does not have a proper medical diagnosis, nor is it consistent with regular treatment or access to the CT scans she needs, since those responsible consider neurological damage as only an aesthetic problem.

Her daily care and assistance are provided by the comrade Dimitra Z. who is imprisoned along with her, as well as the attempts of her family to bring external doctors into the prison.

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