This morning, 19 November, anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos, who was arrested yesterday as he was returning to his home, is being brought to the prosecutor’s office, with the media having already started their classic scapegoating, condemning him without yet being found guilty.
The reason for the arrest is a fingerprint detected in one of the findings found in the apartment that was blown up in Ampelokipi, Athens, which led to the death of comrade Kyriakos and the serious injury of comrade Marianna. In particular, a fingerprint was found on a bag containing a weapon. The weapon, after a ballistic test, proved to be unused.
For our international readers, we remind that Nikos Romanos is known not only within the anarchist circles, but in the wider Greek society in general, since he was a friend of Alexis Grigoropoulos and an eyewitness to his murder, which triggered the 2008 uprising. He had previously been convicted to 18 years in prison for possessing and planting explosive devices in 2012, which reduced to 14 years, and to an 11-year sentence for participating in two bank robberies in Kozani. He was finally released in July 2019 due to good behavior.
In prison he received the support of thousands of people, not only from the movement, which led to a mass mobilization in the streets supporting his hunger strike, and eventually his thirst strike, which he went on because the authorities did not approve the permits required to attend his classes in the school in which he was enrolled.
Source: Blessed is the flame
Spanish translation: La Zarzamora