SILENCES MUST BECOME SCREAMS
In the silence and generalized apathy of our times, it is imperative that we take a stand and act. In any way we can, but we must act. There is no excuse, there is no room for postponements and suspensions. The world is running at an incredible speed, passing us by, trampling us, nothing is left standing and we pretend that nothing is happening. THE MURDERED IN THE TRAINS AND FACTORIES, THE DEAD IN THE RUBBLE OF GAZA, THE MURDERED LITTLE GIRLS IN MINAB, THE SHOT IN THE BACK IN MINNESOTA. In all the lengths and breadths of the earth, the state monopoly on violence must be questioned. In the theater of the absurd and the darkest dystopia that we are experiencing, remaining in our place apathetic implies more than ever bloody complicity. Bloody complicity of a society of masses of people with a scratched face for a smile, a docile gait and blood on their hands. A society that has fallen into a “sweet” indulgence in the embrace of digital Morpheus (modern media culture, communication and ultimately misinformation) and that is experiencing a pandemic crisis that is not an emergency but a permanent one, with the symptoms this time being the apolitical subservience and the devotion of each person only to their own little life. We encounter the counter-proposal to this slow but painful assimilationist drowning within the framework of a dignified existential stance and conscious choice in the face of a voracious system and by extension in the deep empathy of solidarity for our neighbor.
So we move on to action and assume responsibility for the arson of the car of Professor Dimitris Karonis in the Zografou Polytechnic Campus, who, at the behest of the New Democracy, tampered with the findings on Tempi.
Since the murder of 57 people in Tempi…
After the Tempi murder, the government gang launched a huge cover-up campaign in every possible and impossible way. Rumors, statements by ministers, government leaflets, parrot journalists, committees and findings. And we come to the point. On May 13, 2025, NTUA professor Dimitris Karonis, by order of the appellate investigator Bakaimis, publishes his own findings regarding the causes of the fire that followed the train collision. We do not want to go into technical details that do not concern us and do not concern anyone. We will stand and demonstrate how Karonis turned into a pawn of the New Democracy mafia in order to distract public opinion from the cold-blooded murder. It took Karonis 14 whole months to cook up the report in open collaboration with government officials. 14 whole months that the government had heavily advertised the expected report that, like the Arta bridge, was coming out every day. But they had to make it so well among themselves that the result they wanted would come out. And through the mouth of government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis on Tuesday morning 13/5 ”the narrative of the cover-up is collapsing with a bang” and ”they made up a narrative to anger the people and now there is an end to the vulgarity”. All the ND paperboys are now citing Karonis’ 132 pages and trumpeting with pomp that the narrative about the illegal cargo has been debunked and that things are slowly taking their place. Who believes that Karoni’s report was not the product of pressure, manipulation and blackmail. Who is so stupid as to believe that the entire government mechanism was based entirely by chance on a finding of an ‘impeccable’ technocrat? It is a typical statement of a parent of a Tempi victim in those days that Karonis’ finding WAS BOUGHT.
But what did Karonis say in so many pages of his expert report? He ruled out the possibility that the freight train was carrying any suspicious cargo, which caused the mushroom fire. The expert report states that “the formation of a fireball under conditions of high-current electric arc is possible. This means that in the case of the tragic accident under investigation, it is also a possibility, since flashes attributed to an electric arc have been recorded.” The finding raises a safety issue for trains that use the specific transformers and specific silicone oils. However, Siemens, in its own relevant document, claimed that silicone oils cannot produce a fireball. Karonis rules out the existence of illegal cargo on the commercial train, stating that “from the cargo data of the commercial train and the Hellenic Police Autopsy Report, there is no mention anywhere of recording material that would have the characteristics required for the formation of a flammable vapor cloud that could create a fireball,” citing the videos depicting the commercial train as it passed through the Platamonas tunnel. It took Mr. Karonis 14 months to repeat in 130 pages the conclusion that the firefighters had drawn from the beginning on the orders of Hellenic Train – and on which Mitsotakis relied to direct the investigation from the very beginning. The firefighters, however, subsequently spoke about the pressure and threats they received to keep their mouths shut. In a document written some time later, however, the same Bakaimis, who had ordered the said report from Karonis, unexpectedly and explicitly states that there is no question of an ignition-explosion inside the train transformers as Karonis had initially stated. In simple words, Karonis did the dirty work for the government while dedicating his work to the victims of Tempi, insulting their memory. HYPOCRISY IS OVERFLOWING AND OUR PATIENCE IS ENDING SOMEWHERE HERE. When we burned down the house of the former president of EODASAAM, Christos Papadimitriou, last year, we wrote that “for the system, Papadimitriou and every Papadimitriou may be expendable, for us they will be targets. The EODASAAM report was a very clever and insidious attempt to sweep the responsibilities of government agents under the rug. Moreover, this specific report was an initial attempt on the part of the blue-collar executives to ‘mitigate’ social discontent.” Coming to Karonis, another expendable from the system’s perspective, we send a clear message that no matter how many years pass, no matter how many trials are held, historical memory has recorded all of them as complicit and murderers.
…in the apartment on Arcadia Street
On that October 31st, along with comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris, a part of all of us was lost. It may not have been a state assassination like that of the Tempi or the employers at the Violanta factory, but death had chosen the side of the fighters. For us, the sacrifice of a comrade for the struggle and the Cause is a beacon and a constant reminder that with more stubbornness we must continue the struggle. Verbalizations have no cost. The flourishes in public statements without practical follow-up and impact, the complaining of the anarchists of the bars about their glorious past and the retrieval of “revolutionary stories” from the dusty cupboards of earlier years are said to be priceless. The time has come for actions and for words to match the actions of each and every one. Those who are still tightly bound to the safety belt and remain on empty words had better remain silent. Let us honor the dead fighter who acted within the framework of the multifaceted anarchist struggle with a weapon in hand, crossing the red light of social legitimacy. The smile of Kyriakos accompanies us in every action and in every practice of revolutionary counter-violence and revenge for all the dead on our side. At the moment when the trial of Ampelokipi is in progress, we send our solidarity to all the imprisoned anarchists under judicial hostage. You will find the imprints of an entire multifaceted movement on the maps of our struggles, where the judiciary takes care to exhaust all its vindictiveness by making accusations and carrying out obsessive persecutions. Let’s finally put a stop to this lawlessness and vindictiveness.
We can continue to write many pages, analyzing the reasons we attacked Karonis and every Karonis. The system gives us dozens of reasons to attack. From the genocidal practices of the Zionists or the imperialist attacks of the US to the unaccountable domestic sovereignty and state murders within Greece. DID ANYONE THINK OF ACTING AND HAD NO REASON? Are the reasons we mention simply the fuel to organize an attack and nothing more in the sense that the system itself is murdering our very beings every moment, every hour?
Let’s all put it down, each and every one with their own self and let’s consider whether it is worth living an entire life as slaves or whether the time has come to act for freedom. Because freedom is not necessarily a dot on the map that we must reach but a few breaths out of the depths of the slavery of everyday life. On the paths where the wild joy of breaking the laws inflates the lungs with freedom, on these paths, at these crossroads that we have long chosen the direction, we will meet those who dare daily and will dare again in the future to take the plunge into the void of Risk and Battle. With our bags full of stones, Molotov cocktails, incendiary devices and any other supplies needed. Without any inhibition or turning back. Because our own path did not choose us, we chose it and we walk it from our childhood dreams to our adult nightmares. And the end may be predetermined but what is more beautiful than being hit with the inevitable? Until the end.
Honor forever to the armed guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris and to the Italian revolutionary comrades Alessandro Marcogliano and Sara Ardizzone. Solidarity to all the captured revolutionaries.
Alongside the struggle of the Refugees and to Aristotelis Chantzis who, with his own life as a weapon, fights for the obvious.
COMMANDO ‘KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS’