Marianna Manoura
I would like to state to the residents of the apartment building that the explosion was not due to an organized plan. It resulted in the death of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, and my own serious injury. We never wanted general people to suffer, nor to cause damage to people whilst social conditions are already very serious. When our political space wants to attack it evaluates, and the logic of collateral damage is in no way consistent with its values. We use our means against the system alone.
I thank the two people who helped me immediately after the explosion.
The explosion has been exploited by the state from the very beginning.
I will never claim that it was a conspiracy. I take political responsibility for the actions, but I will not waste a single minute of my freedom for things I did not do.
My comprade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, lost his life for a better world.
His death has been instrumentalized and vilified through the imputation of the explosion, an accusation by the counter-terrorism that Kyriakos was aware of what would follow.
Kyriakos, as a political subject, loved life; not only his own, but also that of others. As a human being, it is impossible that he would want to burden general people with damage to their homes.
I am not accountable to any court, I am only accountable to my comrades.
It is in your hands how this trial will be conducted, whether you will follow the orders of counterterrorism, or whether you will judge based on the actual facts.
I can take political responsibility for what is my responsibility.
I dedicate every minute of this trial to the memory of Kyriakos.
Kyriakos was a wonderful man and a sensitive revolutionary.
10/31 is a breaking point for me, both for the moral burden of the damage to the apartment building and for the loss. I will preserve it to preserve the memory of Kyriakos, his choices, and my place within them.
Dimitra Zarafeta
I deny all the charges.
I wish to pay tribute to the memory of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris.
Political action, friendships and political relationships are being criminalized.
The deprivation of my liberty is the responsibility of the court, which allows such cases to be filed.
I apologize to the family who own the apartment, as, unknowingly, I put them in an unpleasant position due both to the damage and to the involvement with the repressive mechanism.