Nikos Maziotis: The Quality of the “Protectors of the Citizen”

The quality of those who were charged with persecuting us, with the pursuit of the Revolutionary Struggle and myself as a wanted person and bounty, meaning the security forces, the so-called “protectors of the citizen”, prove in the end, they really are the ones who are dangerous to the citizens by committing heinous social crimes.

According to recent media reports, a retired “protector of the citizen”, who in the expropriation of Piraeus Bank in Kleitoria in 2014 was injured and disarmed by me and was decorated for his zeal to save the bank’s money, was recently arrested as a member of a criminal organization that deceived elderly people and specifically, for fraud against an elderly 70-year-old woman by extorting 40,000 euros.

Of course, this is not the first time that a “protector of the citizen”, who was involved in our persecution, has committed a crime against a fellow citizen when he was in office. Let me remind you that the policeman of the DIAS team who had shot me in Monastiraki in July 2014 contributing to my arrest – he was also honored for this by the then government – two years later robbed and killed a taxi driver and has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

After all, what kind of “citizen protectors” are these police officers who rob, kill, or deceive citizens? And they are not the only examples.

Unlike our persecutors, I and the Revolutionary Struggle may have turned against political-economic power, we may have expropriated banks, i.e. predatory usury institutions that legally rob citizens and we have the political responsibility for this, but we have not turned against any citizen who is a day laborer and poor. We did not rob or deceive a citizen, we did not take or cut the pension and salary of any elderly and salaried person, we did not deprive anyone of their home as the banks protected by these “protectors of the citizen” do. We did not deprive anyone of health and care, nor did we deprive anyone of food. We did not condemn anyone to poverty, misery and death as the implementers of the memoranda did. These were done by the bosses protected by the so-called “protectors of the citizen” who persecuted us and the entire state-capitalist cabal: governments, ministers, parliamentarians, bankers, capitalists, the international transnational cabal called the IMF, ECB, EU. Moreover, by their actions these “buds” of the police, whether past or present, do nothing but confirm again and again the rightness of my choices, the righteousness of the action of the Revolutionary Struggle.

Nikos Maziotis

condemned for the action of the Revolutionary Struggle

Fourth wing Domokos prison.

Source: Athens Indymedia