Greece: Antifascist march in Volos

The poster reads:

IF YOU TOLERATE FASCISM TODAY
IT WILL CAUSE YOU TO SUFFER TOMORROW
On Saturday, September 29th, the local MP of the Golden Dawn P.Iliopoulos was spotted on Dimitriados street, in the city of Volos. A person started to argue verbally with him because of the MP’s fascist and bullying tactics, but also because the same person has regularly been slandered through the Internet by the Golden Dawn.

Soon thereafter, at the corner of Dimitriados and Skenderani streets, where the local (unofficial) head office of the nationalist party are located, the aforementioned person argued verbally with seven members of the Golden Dawn –who had just got out of the building carrying steel batons and wooden stakes– and with the MP himself, who did not only carry a wooden stake but also displayed his gun to challenge and threat the unarmed antifascist.

Within only a few minutes, heavy police forces arrived at the scene and lined up in a cordon to protect the armed fascists. Then the cops violently detained six people and the antifascist, with the pretext of obtaining witnesses’ testimonies about the incident.

One more random citizen, that was also an eyewitness, went to the police department to file suit against the MP’s conduct. Nevertheless, he was ignored by the cops, who told him to come again some other time.

WE SHOULD NOT LIVE LIKE SLAVES
Τhe only thing that the mainstream media ‘news coverage’ and the cops’ account added to the case was the legitimacy of firearm possession. If the MP had fired his gun, they would probably care to add, as usual, an accidental discharge or an ostracized bullet.

TRASH THE FASCISTS
Demonstration, Saturday, October 6th, 18.00pm, Aghios Nikolaos, Volos

Assembly against fascism


Keep safe on the street, stay alert. (The neo-Nazis circulated a call for a ‘Pan-Thessalic demo’ on the same day, at the same time, in Volos.)