National Gendarmerie of Athens
In the early hours of March 25, we attacked with an incendiary device the building where the dean of the NTUA, Panagiotis Tsanakas, as well as a riot police officer, live in the area of Zografou. Our research on the chief snitch of the academic rabble of the Polytechnic brought us in front of a simultaneously special but poetically explainable coincidence. A snitch and a cop work and live together, a touching image to say the least.
Tsanakas is not simply the tsuchiki [contemptuous address for a person we consider vile and insignificant] of Hadjigeorgiou (rector of NTUA) but as the culmination of his “academic” work he has shamelessly handed over to the police a student who was writing slogans in favor of the Palestinian people on the school grounds. However, he has a deeper and more essential role in Hadjigeorgiou’s police-held monstrosity, of a rectory that allows/imposes the daily presence and the scolding of cops on campus in full compliance and obedience to the dictates of the ND doctrine for absolute control and essentially the necrosis of student and subversive struggles on university campuses. A rectorate that we have lost count of how many times has ordered the invasion of the repressive forces on the university grounds, with a particular “sensitivity” when it comes to those in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people.
Of course, Hadjigeorgiou has an additional reason to fervently desire the presence of cops on the NTUA grounds beyond serving the government’s planning. He uses them as doormen and henchmen who guard the “shop” that he has built in future collaborations on NATO programs and Jewish arms industries. Just the day after the attack, we read that a way has been found through opaque procedures and individual opinions of legal advisors to declare unconstitutional (!) Article 2 of the Funding and Management Guide of the Special Research Funds Account (ELKE), which concerns the NTUA and explicitly states “…The history of the NTUA is connected to struggles for freedom and peace. For this reason, the NTUA is not allowed to conduct or participate in research for war purposes of any kind, with the exception of research for the country’s defense needs, and no research funded by international military coalitions is undertaken.” Let us recall that the above constitutes a conquest of the anti-war movement of the era of the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO forces in 1999. Of course, as early as October 2023, in the midst of the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza by the Israeli army, with the signatures of Hadjigeorgiou and Dean Panagiotis Tsanakas, a memorandum of cooperation between the NTUA and Intracom Telecom was signed. It is therefore obvious (unless you are a lobotomist) that the results of the university’s research in this collaboration are channeled to 2 subsidiaries of Intracom Telecom, Intracom Defense and Intracom Aviator, which actively cooperate with the Israeli army and its genocidal activities in the wider Middle East.
It is therefore clear that beyond being a miserable snitch, Tsanakas is, with actions – such as the above – an active supporter of the genocide of the peoples of the Middle East and as such must be treated by radical forces. The arson attack on the house was simply a warning. We know his daily life well and depending on his future actions he will be targeted appropriately.
The other tenant of the building practices the miserable profession of a riot policeman. The descendant of Pantelis Petrou and Ioannis Georgakopoulos symbolizes for us the murderous attacks of the repressive forces on the marches of the radical student movement, the serious injuries of comrades in the memorial march for the armed revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris and that of December 6th, the long arm of the state that supposedly will crush without reprisal. We want to welcome every upgraded action against every riot police crackdown that has taken place recently. We will leave the many words aside and give space to the action and if this can clarify that this “long arm” will literally begin to crush, then well and good. Let him inform his colleagues for the time being that the homes of some of them are in our hands, as well as those of other fighting organizations, and their targeting will take place depending on the intensity of the repressive attack we are receiving.
We dedicate our energy to the Italian anarchist comrades Alessandro Marcogliano and Sara Ardizzone, who lost their lives after an improvised explosive device exploded. To honor their memory, we named the cell that carried out the attack after their names. Sara, Alessandro, Kyriakos and hundreds of other freedom fighters are a heavy reminder to all of us. To those who speak of a dynamic struggle against the cannibalistic system that destroys our lives. An exhortation for each and every one of us to take a small step further. To increase our risks and commitments. To steel our stubbornness and arm ourselves. To honor the memory and choices of our fallen comrades by multiplying the centers of dynamic resistance. In an era when it is necessary to fight with all our being, so that we can be there at the rendezvous for the confrontation with history and those who keep our lives in suffocating jars. To crush those who hold the whip, to shatter the phobic culture of the willing, to not turn into a museum exhibit and a fairy tale to lull our lost revolutionary dreams. The disappointment, the whining and the “politics” of bars and cafes must give way to the reborn propaganda of conspiratorial acts.
WE DEDICATE OUR ATTACK TO THE FIGHTING PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST WHO ARE FIGHTING THE MONSTER OF IMPERIALISM WITH A GUN IN THEIR HANDS
SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMRADES OF THE AMPELOKIPI CASE
ALESSANDRO MERCOGLIANO, SARA ARDIZZONE, KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT IN OUR STRUGGLES
LET FEAR CHANGE CAMP
Direct Action Cells
Cell Alessandro Mercogliano/Sara Ardizzone