On July 26th, 2012, a trial will take place in the city of Patras (Western Greece) against anarchist Christos Stratigopoulos, who is accused of robbing a bank on Cephalonia Island that was carried out in July 2009. The comrade has been convicted and imprisoned for a bank robbery in Trikala […]
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Petros Kapetanopoulos is one of us In the evening of Saturday, July 21st, Petros Kapetanopoulos came out from his home in Sepolia as soon as he heard trouble in his neighbourhood. In the small park across the street, he saw a police patrol car stopped, an immigrant lying on the […]
On Thursday, July 19th, the court of Piraeus rejected as unfounded the motion of the chief prosecutor of Piraeus, who sought to change the hospital where Savvas Xiros would be treated. Savvas has already been transferred into the AHEPA hospital of Thessaloniki, since Wednesday, July 18th, and remains under constant […]
Comrade Babis Tsilianidis, imprisoned now in the 1st wing of Koridallos prisons, stated that he will not attend this court, in the same way he did not attend previous court proceedings, thus ‘refusing to apologize to my judges, to prosecutors of the multiform liberation struggle,’ as he explains in his […]
[ Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 ] In the past three years, several anarchists are held in Greek prisons and even more are under a judicial hostage, as a consequence of the escalating anarchist revolutionary violence that stepped up during this period. Faced with an unusually large number of cases, which […]
Savvas Xiros has not yet been transferred to Thessaloniki’s hospital, and remains in the dungeon of Koridallos prisons. The public prosecutor of Piraeus reintroduced the case of Savvas’ motion for a stay of execution of his sentence. The prosecutor now demands that the prisoner will not be treated in a […]
On July 5th, 2012 the First Three-Member Misdemeanor Court of Piraeus decided to discontinue the prison sentence of Savvas Xiros only for five months, accepting this time his umpteenth motion for a stay of execution of his sentence so as to be hospitalized at the AHEPA hospital of Thessaloniki. According […]
The trial against the imprisoned CCF members and anarchist Theofilos Mavropoulos was scheduled for the morning of June 27th at Evelpidon courts, in Athens. In addition to much heavier charges, all ten of them are now prosecuted even for incitement to criminal acts in relation to three texts that had […]
Note: Contra Info translation network is neither a collective of “certified specialists”, nor affiliated to the SMED itself, therefore only disseminates the following communiqué to make a very typical case of employer’s immunity in Greece wider known. Truism No.1 Melani (“Ink”) Editions delegated the translation of a book to a […]
This trial is a political trial in which revolutionaries are judged, who chose armed struggle to fight for the overthrow of capitalism and the State, the overthrow of the criminal regime that you, as judges, defend. Your court is a special court set up under the orders of the American […]
We are experiencing the peculiar economic and political conjuncture when capitalism oscillates unpredictably and the political system is under widespread contest. This contest, though, does not come to propose an alternative solution on a political level, but can be found in the form of general discontent. But the general discontent […]
In April 2010, in a joint letter with my comrades Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis, we claimed political responsibility for our participation in Revolutionary Struggle (Epanastatikos Agonas). We declared that we’re proud of the organization and our fellow fighter Lambros Foundas, who was killed by cops in the armed scuffle […]