Arson Attack Against the Tax Office in Heraklion, Crete, Greece

In the morning of 20/12/22 it was announced on the radio that early in the morning a huge fire broke out in the Heraklion Tax Office following an arson attack. After several hours the fire brigade managed to extinguish the fire but the damage to the logistical infrastructure and the building is estimated at tens of thousands of euros.

You who are reading these lines, stop for a moment and ask yourself if your life is a life worth living as a human being. If the answer is no, then you ought to seek out those responsible for dictating your life and undermining your dignity. Evictions of first home owners at the crack of dawn, with armed forces of cops carrying out the vile entreaties of their bosses, taxes, sky-high rents, inflated electricity bills, food and fuel shortages, meagre wages, uninsured work, half pay and bonuses that get returned to the hands of the bosses, cut pensions and a broken health care system. All of this adds up to a suffocating daily life in which you have no time to live.

There are many voices of reaction and more, but all kinds of exploiters make sure to silence and suppress them as much as they can. Whether it is the upgrading of the penal code, the law on “football supporter violence”, cameras everywhere, entry/exit barriers on public transport and in schools, the ban on strikes and demonstrations, terror laws, inspections, fines, thugs, raids, threats, beatings, staged trials, detentions, punitive sentences, deportations of immigrants, torture, murders and much more.

Faced with this dystopian present, we have been giving our own answer for years. We refuse to entrust our lives to the dogs of the state, whether right or left. We firmly believe in the unconstrained and unmediated action of those who struggle. All that remains is for us to meet with our people at work and in our neighborhoods and to chart our common “paths” with our dreams and dignity as our compass. We stand wholeheartedly in the direction of rejecting the legalization of state dictates and the monopoly of violence. We seek the diffusion of a mass illegality that will create ruptures in the smooth flow of capital and the imposed by force “social peace”.

Consistent with the struggle for the liberation of the people, we open a dialogue with the people of our class about the necessity of violent insurrection. Every small or large action breaks the vicious cycle of victimization and defeatism. So, on 20/12/22, we invaded the 1st floor of the Heraklion tax office on Knossos Avenue and emptied a few cans of petrol. We set it on fire and left. Our action is not revenge or a response but a reminder that people like us do not forget and keep the knife in their teeth:

THE SYSTEM OF OPPRESSION DESERVES TO BURN

THE ACCOUNTS OF THE RULERS AND MURDERERS REMAIN OPEN

Our solidarity with the voiceless of this society and the squatters is a given.

ΑΛΕΞΗ ΣΑΜΠΑΝΗ ΦΡΑΓΚΟΥΛΗ ΗΡΑΚΛΗ

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