content warning: discussion of sexual violence
Responsibility claim for the arson/explosive attack against the home of child rapist Ilias Michos
As Direct Action Cells we claim responsibility for the incendiary attack on the home owned by the child rapist, pimp and member of the New Democracy Party Elias Michos and his ex-wife Elisavet Lekka. In the early morning of 23/10, we placed a low-powered incendiary/explosive device at the entrance of their apartment building in the Attica area.
POLICE – JUSTICE – GOVERNMENT – MEDIA
An organized ring promoting and covering up pimps, rapists, child rapists, murderers and torturers – The cutting edge of the domestic mafia of capital
“This is the practice and everybody likes it’ – Dimosthenis Pakos (police “unionist”)
For those who still insist on not understanding the systemic support and cover-up of police and fascist attacks, for those who still insist that justice is neutral and independent of the domestic bourgeois elite and the whole mechanism of consolidation and monopolization of violence, for those who were not satisfied with the acquittal of not only the pimp and child rapist of ND (New Democracy Party), Nikos Georgiadis, the “special-friendly treatment” of the mafioso Menios Fourthiotis, but also the full release on parole of the New DemocRAT Petros Lefkowitz for the serial rapes of his daughter since she was 11 years old, we would like to cite just a few of the recent cases where the full complicity of civil justice with the scum who destroyed lives was demonstrated. All this is already known, we are simply quoting it in a condensed form to make it absolutely visible that STATE AND CAPITAL ABUSE, RAPE AND KILL, that their very nature is exploitation, barbarism, devaluation of lives and the imposition of terror, and that every aspect of political and social life is class and value-determined. It is a SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING TERROR, VIOLENCE AND DEATH, with the corresponding mechanisms of communication management and laundering.
- Two years ago, after a solidarity meeting for those arrested during a march against the burning of garbage produced by Lafarge / AGET in Volos, the comrade Vasilios Maggos was arrested. The cops of the Magnesia Police Directorate tortured him and, after satisfying their ravenous violent appetites, they tossed him onto the street. The blows were fatal for the comrade, who breathed his last breath on 13/7/2020. This state murder is still being covered up today by the state-judicial apparatus, as only three cops were indicted for the simple misdemeanor of “grievous bodily harm”, while no names have been released, and now that the case is being tried, the “law and order enforcers” are committing violence against the people in solidarity who have gathered at the Volos courts.
- Last summer, the deplorable case of pimping and rape of an underage girl by her father and a cop at the Ilioupoli Police Station came to light, with the full knowledge and the brutal cover-up by other state agents of this department. The pimps, rapists and concealment artists are still circulating among us, the case was covered up and buried, until the next time and the time after that when we will learn once again about trafficking and (child) rape rings involving cops and “prominent” housewives.
- One year ago, on 22/10/2021, cops execute Nikos Sambanis in Perama, firing 36 bullets at him after a chase due to racial profiling, and in defiance of orders from their operations center not to follow the stolen vehicle. The cops claimed they were acting in “defense,” which of course was debunked by video footage and eyewitnesses. The follow-up is predictable. Immediately all seven were acquitted, returned to work as normal and are walking among us.
- This summer, on 28/6, Epaminondas Korkoneas, the cop who executed in cold blood the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos on that bloody 6th of December ’08, was released from prison. Korkoneas received the extenuating circumstance of “previous lawful life”, and after serving his short term in Greek prisons, he is now walking among us. This follows the release of his accomplice, Vasilios Saraliotis, who was reinstated in the police force and even received compensation for his lost wages.
- Then, on 1/7, the serial rapist and abuser, Petros Filippidis, was released from prison, after being hospitalized for a “minor stroke”, and after paying the sum of 20,000 euros as bail. He is now walking around normally among us.
- On 4/7, Athanasios Hortarias, the real estate agent who tortured and murdered Zak Kostopoulos / Zackie Oh! in the jewelry store in Gladstonos on 21/9/2018, was released from prison. It seems he served his sentence for “grievous bodily harm”, so he is now walking among us as well. House arrest had also been imposed on the jeweller/murderer, Spyridon Dimopoulos, while the latest development is the full acquittal by the Police Disciplinary Board for the four cops who handcuffed and abused Zack while he was dying.
- On the same day, 4/7, the Leventis were acquitted of the gang rape of Georgia Bika in a hotel in Thessaloniki, following a proposal by the prosecutor Kyriaki Kliaba, and despite all the evidence proving their guilt. This did not happen out of the blue, considering that the Leventis are the offspring of the well-known family that owns most of the share capital for the multinational company Coca Cola 3E. And they are now walking among us.
- This is followed, on 13/7, by the acquittal of the humiliated “blue blood”, Dimitris Lignadis, for two of the rapes for which he was accused, while he was sentenced for two other rapes to 12 years’ suspended imprisonment. After paying a bail of 30000 euros, at noon on 14/7, Lignadis was permanently released from prison and is now walking among us.
- Also, on 14/7, Aristides Kokkinos and Nikolaos Soutoglou, the two cops convicted for the torture of Christos Chronopoulos at Kallithea police station in 2007, are released from prison. They beat him so badly that they caused him to be permanently totally physically disabled. Of course, they received the mitigating circumstances of ‘previous lawful life’ and ‘subsequent good behavior’, so they are now walking freely among us.
- On 29/7, Christos Sergiopoulos, the fascist who in January 2013 murdered the Pakistani worker Shahzat Loukman in Petralona while he was on his way to work in the morning, was released from prison. After 6 years and 4 months in prison, he is now walking among us.
- And today, we see the favorable treatment of the two subhumans from the DIAS (motorcycle police unit) who gang raped a 19-year-old girl at the police station of Omonia, who will always be supported and protected even if they are convicted, since, as it has already been said, “the workload at the police station of Omonia is heavy, and it is logical that there will be some distraction from the children”. The two scumbags are free on parole, their names are withheld, and the whole media establishment is out to whitewash them and bury the case, just like they did with the Ilioupolis Police Station. We do not forget, nor do we forget any of the horrible scenes of humiliation caused by the bastards of the Omonia Police Station. History is written, and sooner or later the account is going to be paid.
Justice is neither impartial nor blind
IT IS CLASS-BASED
The list is endless, the expressions of systemic violence and the incidents of cover-ups are countless. Many of them may never see the light of day. But by quoting at least the above, we want to demonstrate that the state-capitalist system is absolutely intertwined and dependent on its legal and repressive mechanisms. It is a power complex that gives the feeling of impunity and absolute freedom to every cop, every fascist and every ’eminent, peaceful and decent citizen’ to carry out their outrages openly, and this is precisely what it wants to perpetuate. The sooner we understand that these bastards are flesh and blood from the exploitative-class system which is robbing us of life and dignity, the sooner we will understand that only an organized revolutionary-radical movement can stand as a barrier to these outrages, only the defiance of the insurrectionary people can strike terror into the bastards of the bourgeois-democratic regime and bring us closer to overcoming class society, patriarchy and omnipresent brutality.
Time to organize and take action
As we have said dozens of times in recent years, our enemies are not an abstract complex of relationships and meanings. They are real people, they move in the real world, they have real homes, vehicles and bodies. The only thing that prevents us from a visit that will shatter their sense of omnipotence is whether we take a little time to research them, and a little determination and will to recapture the dignity and raw power of a truly dangerous movement with real potential to overthrow the capitalist regime and its cultural superstructure.
Serial rape, debauchery, torture, economic exploitation of a 12-year-old girl, targeting by the media mouthpieces that set up a caravan outside the girl’s house, disorienting public opinion by trying to put the focus on the girl’s mother as the main culprit for the horror that the child was living: They demonstrate the historical thread of the domestic bourgeoisie and its right-wing opportunists, from the times when the Khitans raped, tortured and executed the poor and resisters, and when the black marketers speculated on the poverty and misery of war, with the arrogance and hubris of a sense of eternal impunity and omnipotence. They demonstrate the values and the deeper essence of these anthropomorphic reptiles who, behind the facade of the doctrine of “Law and Order” and “Fatherland-Religion-Family”, hide their dark appetites and how they really see the world around them, namely as a playground for brutal domination, exploitation, bloodshed and destruction.
The “illustrious” Ilias Michos, of Panagiotis, owner of the shop “ΟΙΚΟ-ΕΠΙΛΟΓΕΣ ΜΙΧΟΣ” in Kolonos, is deep in the swamp of the domestic right, with hundreds of thousands of euros in direct commissions for supplies of products from his shop to various ministries under the ND governments for decades. He was, moreover, until recently a leading member of the local organization of ND in Kolonos. He organized election rallies at his home, and regularly took photos with cops, priests and political figures of the right-wing scene, from Samaras to Plevris, and from Patoulis to Papanikos. Religious, nationalist, family man and boss, he covered up well the rottenness and disgrace that he hid inside himself, while he had set up the corresponding organized circuit with corresponding members of the “proud and illustrious” national body, thus ensuring their apparent immunity to rape and serially molest the body and soul of a 12-year-old child, and who knows how many others.
But his wife, Elizabeth Lekka, is also an “illustrious, very nice lady” (as the televangelist Balaskas described her), faithful to the values of “Patriarchy-Religion-Family”. She is a member of the municipal party “Athens Tall” of the mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, appointed as a district councilor in the 4th municipal community of Athens, but also a member of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Infant School. She tried to bribe the mother of the 12-year-old girl so as not to publicly and irreparably expose her enviable family. While expediting the divorce proceedings with Michos (with whom, she claims, she had long been separated and was merely cohabiting), just days before the scandal broke, and while she already knew what was about to happen.
Let’s put an end to victimization
We expect no solution from civil justice, no name from the 213 on the list, no conviction of a cop, politician, racist or judge. These are all their own children, they are an organized circle, a mafia clique that seeks our complete elimination, and that fully whitewashes and supports the garbage they have unleashed. It’s time we put them in our crosshairs too, to answer their attacks, to prove that they are vulnerable little men with only one purpose in life, to exceed their shamelessness and their chauvinistic personalities by oppressing and destroying the lives of people who are objectively more vulnerable and weaker than they are.
We have exhausted the examples of state arbitrariness. How much more do we need? Do we not understand that the scum who bloody marches and rallies, who humiliate and torture people in police stations, who hide behind fascist and church hate speech, have such a dark psyche that they are capable of anything? Don’t we understand that when a person bases their existence on the brute imposition and degradation of others, it is a natural consequence to practice all kinds and levels of violence, making it structural and systematic? The excuses have run dry. It is now obvious that we are ruled by a shameless mafia, which does not hesitate to trample on any “civic decency” in order to get rich off the scandals that break out repeatedly (wiretapping of political opponents, drug trafficking cartels, trafficking and child rape rings, private contracts, tax fraud and so much more). We have no choice but to stand on our feet and face this mafia head on, asserting that THIS IS NOT THE END OF HISTORY, WE ARE STILL HERE, not as victims, not as desperate screams and fireworks, not as the defeated and with our backs against the wall, but as an active historical force fighting with all means to overthrow it.
Redundancy, inarticulate shouting and victimization are the hallmark of the humiliated parrots of the state-repression apparatus. Worn-out TV personalities like Stavros Balaskas and Vassilis Doumas, under the wings of the petrified demagogues, showing us every day, on every possible occasion, how a person who wants to live their life and their time with his head held high should avoid becoming one of them.
Regarding the child rapists of the girl in Sepolia, but also all the would-be child rapists who of course “did not know their age”, who are “honest family men and respectable citizens”, “illustrious”, as Balaskas called the scum of the earth Michos: Sooner or later your names will be known one by one. Every John Sofianides, Anastasios Lazaridis, Nikolaos Kontaris and Efthimios Clothakis will lose sleep. Because there are people out here who have no hope and no expectations of the favors that bourgeois justice will bestow on them. Our only hope and only expectation is the militant and radical struggle that will bring terror into their homes, that will make fear change sides, so that revolutionary perspective and rebellious dignity can flourish.
WE ARE AT WAR
The longer it takes us to take an active position, the longer this war will continue to be waged unilaterally, without an opponent. The rape of children, the rape of women, torture, femicide, fascist and paramilitary murders, all these are products of a social system that alienates us, alienates us from solidarity and empathy for our fellow people, making us faceless machines of production and consumption of products, insensitive and lifeless components of the capitalist mega-machine, who do not understand or care what happens to those around them, or what cloud of misery and destruction shadows the world from all sides. By recovering our humanity and our tenderness, we will understand more deeply the mechanisms that systematize violence and make it the monopoly of the ruling class, but also the mechanisms that make us cannibals, that make us want to find the weakest and impose ourselves on them.
The social war is raging, and the contribution of a movement that wants to call itself subversive and revolutionary must be substantial and multifaceted. We must build structures and human relations that demonstrate our value chasm with the capitalist world. To demonstrate that it is possible not to relate to people on the basis of competition, suspicion, let alone imposition and oppression. Against the world of organized decay and horror, there is another world, of solidarity, empathy and mutual aid, which must guard its ideals, organize itself to fight for them, and keep its eyes fixed on the horizon of the definitive eradication of capitalism and its social construction from history.
To strengthen the combative forces of today
10, 100, 1000 DIRECT ACTION CELLS
Solidarity with the 11 Turkish communist fighters who are imprisoned in the Greek hellholes, and have been on hunger strike since 7/10, demanding a fair trial and an end to the regime of exception against them.
Solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who started a hunger strike on 20/10 in Italian prisons to end the 41 bis revenge regime imposed on him since 5/5/2022. Solidarity also to the anarchist comrade Juan Sorroche who also started a hunger strike on 25/10, standing actively by Alfredo Cospito’s side.
We send our wholehearted solidarity to the four imprisoned comrades for the case of the arson attack on the Piraeus Transport Police on 14/11/2021.
Always at the side of our captive comrades and comrades-in-arms in every corner of the planet –
PRAXIS OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Direct Action Cells
source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1621367/
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