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About the case of the arrested
anarchists in Nea Filadelfeia
(Northern Athens - Greece)
Information about the arrest of five On Wednesday noon, May 1st,
anarchists on Tuesday noon, April 30th, the arrestees were all transferred
the criminal proceedings against them, to Evelpidon courts, where the
and the hunger/thirst strike of comrade media crows were lurking, and
Dimitris Hadjivasiliadis. were met with the comrades’
hostility. The comrades stood
On Tuesday, April 30th, at around 4pm, before prosecutor and interrogator
The Submissive Crowd anarchists Yannis Naxakis and Grigoris without any formal indictment and
Sarafoudis were arrested on Dekeleias (for some) without being allowed
“All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But avenue in the district of Nea Filadelfeia, as to meet with a defense lawyer in
rebellion for good cause is self-justifying – they were coming out of a cafeteria. advance that would also be
a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves present in the hearing, what
into human beings, if only for an hour.” At the same time, a large police force perhaps occurred for the first time
Edward Abbey stormed the café and caught the anarchist in the history of similar cases.
fugitives Argyris Ntalios —who tried to break The judges applied their usual
You can be the most pleasant, easy-going, out of the kettle— and Fivos Harisis-Poulos. tactic to postpone the preliminary
kind-hearted person, but it really doesn’t Both comrades had arrest warrants pending hearing for two days regardless of
matter to the “normal’ members of Society: against them since mid-February 2013 (after the arrestees’ wishes. Ntalios,
“the followers”, those who are scared and the double robbery in Velventos–Kozani and Harisis, Naxakis and Sarafoudis
hostile towards anybody they see as the incarceration of anarchists Andreas- refused to make any statement.
different from what they perceive to be Dimitris Bourzoukos, Dimitris Politis, Nikos On the other hand, Hadjivasiliadis
acceptable or decent. Wearing differently Romanos and Yannis Michailidis). demanded that he be heard
immediately with the presence of
cut clothes or having a weird haircut is
enough to risk the ire of the “good people” Anarchist Dimitris Hadjivasiliadis was also a defense lawyer. His demand
it seems, without even mentioning arrested inside the same cafeteria in Nea was dismissed, so the comrade
possessing different manners or Filadelfeia. stated that he has denied food
and water already from the
perspectives counter to the mainstream.
If you have ideas that challenge the status All five were transferred to the anti-terrorism moment of his arrest, and he goes
quo, and you’re determined to commit service on the 12th floor of the Athens on hunger/thirst strike for as long
them to experience, be ready for their police headquarters. The two comrades that as he is locked up in the white
anger and grudges. With narrow minds and were caught out on the street, as well as the cells of the antiterrorism torturers.
low horizons, the submissive crowd is the two that were wanted by the authorities Lastly, he held the judges respon-
eyes, ears and mouths of repression; encountered the violence of statist dogs in sible for his prolonged custody on
Grovelling conformists, who, -when they are the anti-terrorist office. The fifth comrade the 12th floor of the Athens
not looking out for “terrorists” and was forced to stand for twelve hours hand- police headquarters, where the
“criminals” - are busy sniffing and snitching cuffed tightly behind his back —what offi- cops were attempting only to
out any of those who don’t go through life cially is considered torture— and when he ‘manufacture’ an accusatory brief
like one of a herd of sheep. was taken into a cell (the white cells of the against the three anarchists for
12th floor), he remained handcuffed for whom no warrants were outstand-
several hours. ing in order to ask for their pretrial
Sheep who scrabble for money, lie, cheat incarceration.
and back-stab to get what they want,
The same evening, the Greek security force
dominate other people when they can, and put out a report that accused all of them of On Wednesday evening, preven-
beg for protection and mercy from the resisting arrest and giving false testimony — tive detention warrants were
authorities. “Neighbours”, “communities”, because the five anarchists refused to give executed against the two ex-
and “citizens”; mostly just more words for fingerprints, profiles or DNA samples, which fugitives, and Fivos Harisis and
those who fill the streets with their were ultimately taken by force. In addition, Argyris Ntalios were transferred to
xenophobia, nationalism and hypocrisy. Naxakis, Sarafoudis and Hadjivasiliadis were Koridallos prison.
Those who respect social mediocrity and
charged with harbouring fugitives.
fawn to power deserve my contempt.
Their world must go. Cont. overleaf
Cont. on back page
About the arrests... continued:
totalling 36 months, “reminded” that a
year ago when he was in the hospital
On Thursday, May 2nd, Ntalios, Harisis, In the meantime, Yannis Naxakis
on hunger strike, again then the special
Naxakis and Sarafoudis were charged in and Grigoris Sarafoudis were still
interrogator “renewed” his detainment
past robbery cases on the basis of held as suspects in bank robbery
for 12 more months a day before he
‘findings’ from DNA samples that were case, awaiting further proceeding
was going to be released. The trial was
forcibly taken by them. Additionally, an in the city of Larissa. According to
interrupted because of the tension and
appellate judge who handles such cases mainstream media, these two
continued with the testimonies of
issued preventive detention warrants anarchists were brought before an
witnesses for the case of the parcel
against Yannis Naxakis and Grigoris interrogator on Saturday, May 4th.
bombs by the CCF.
Sarafoudis. An indictment was presented They are said to be remanded and
to all five arrested in Nea Filadelfeia, moved to Koridallos prison.
Employees of courier companies and an
including the accusation of ‘membership
employee from the Swiss embassy
into a criminal organization with a view to
testified. The latter mentioned that
committing robbery,’ in accordance with
when the parcel initially arrived she
the Greek antiterrorist law, without
thought it was “suspicious”, but finally
exhibiting any direct evidence of premedi-
the consul of the embassy received it
tation or even intent, other than some
and opened it in the outside area of the
orange juices served on the cafeteria Athens, Greece: building.
table…
Conspiracy of
Then she, from a distance, realized that
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the cops staged
there was a smell of sulphur in the air
a psychological war on Hadjivasiliadis to Cells of Fire -
and as the consul told her, when he
make him stop the strike. They brought
opened the parcel there was an ignition
water bottles inside the cell, repeatedly Trial updates
and a large flame popped out of the
‘offered’ him food and water, and threat-
parcel. In their statements the com-
ened him that he would stay there for
rades of the Conspiracy mentioned to
CCF, 3rd trial updates
many more days. Hadjivasiliadis and his
the reasons of their choice of targeting
Session 44.
lawyer insisted on his right to medical
the Swiss embassy, referring to the
This session began with tension
examination. A doctor came in at night,
imprisoned comrade Marco Camenish
since in the previous days the
and assured him that there was no
(who has been in prison for 20 years)
detainment of a comrade-member
immediate danger to him at this stage but
as well as the three anarchists (Sylvia,
of the CCF and another accused
his condition could deteriorate any
Billy, Costa) who were arrested back
comrade was extended for 6 more
moment. The doctor also told the screws
then in Switzerland charged with trying
months. With this decision of the
to leave the transom window of the cell’s
to blow up the offices of IBM [specifi-
council of judges, the comrade-
door open, to help the striker breathe
cally a nano-technology lab under
member of the Conspiracy will
more efficiently.
construction]. The trial was adjourned
complete 36 months held on
till Tuesday April 30th.
remand when the limit of detain-
On Friday morning, May 3rd, the five
ment without being sentenced is
anarchists were brought to Evelpidon
Session 45
18 months.
courts once again, where only a few
This session included prosecution
comrades and relatives were gathered in
witnesses for the parcel bomb case.
In the tension caused, participated
solidarity. Four of the accused insisted
Amongst them appeared an employee
many comrades of the CCF who
upon their refusal to make any statement.
of a courier company who had recog-
turned towards the judges, telling
Then Ntalios and Harisis read a text in
nized some of the “accused” as senders
them to abandon their democratic
solidarity to striker Hadjivasiliadis, declar-
of the parcels. Finally, during her
façade and the rhetoric of polite-
ing that he is being held without any
testimony she implied that a large part
ness, since they are servants of
substantial evidence whatsoever against
of her testimony as well as the recogni-
the system and eternal enemies of
him. The judges had no basis to press
tions, are created by the anti-terrorist
them. Just before that the judges
criminal organization charges against the
force.
claimed to not know anything and
arrestees and set bail conditions instead
that they cannot comment on their
for all five of them.
In a statement of his, a comrade of the
colleagues decision. Against this
Conspiracy stressed that “The CCF
recital of humanity and hypocrisy,
Nevertheless, Dimitris Hadjivasiliadis was
does not care about the penal conse-
a comrade of the CCF said:
the only one to be released, and thus
quences and the decision of the court.
stopped his three-day hunger and thirst
But it is important to reveal the meth-
“We do no expect anything from
strike.
ods of the antiterrorist force as a legacy
you besides long term sentences
of knowledge and as a protection
which you will impose on us. But
Argyris Ntalios and Fivos Harisis were
mound for the new comrades.”
do not pretend to be sensitive
taken back to Koridallos. The Solidarity
because you are not convincing
Fund for imprisoned and persecuted
Also, he added, “Lets not forget that in
anyone. There is a war between
fighters (Greece) released their prison
this trial there have been accused also
us and we will not call a truce
address:
individuals who have none neither
even for a moment….”
could have had any relation with the
Fivos Harisis-Poulos
Conspiracy.”
Argyris Ntalios While the other comrade of the
CCF whose detainment was
Dikastiki Filaki Koridallou, A Pteryga,
To a question by the prosecutor if the
extended for 6 more months
18110 Koridallos, Athens, Greece
CCF cares about the acquittal of the
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rest of the “accused”, the comrade was clear. far, were not declared to the tax pating now in the Conspiracy, I will read
“the acquittal of the rest of the comrades, office so that it is difficult to track a collective statement for this trial. All of
who are indeed innocent, is a job for their them and cross check the fake us, the members of the CCF, want to
lawyers. We are not lawyers. But we want - information. The witnesses that clarify some things.
and we will- to preserve history and the followed were called to recognize In this trial, besides us who have taken
honour of the organization.” the comrades if they were the the responsibility for our participation and
same people who set up police support of the Conspiracy, all other
The rest of the witnesses were couriers who blocks in order to copy their accused do not have, neither have any
unwillingly had carried parcel bombs. identity card info. relation with the charges attributed to
them.
Session 43. It is reminded that the comrades They never were, neither could ever be
This session was postponed because of an of the CCF would disguise members of the Conspiracy.
illness of one of the judges. themselves and pretend to be An ocean of disagreements, perceptions
cops carrying out fake stop and and choices divides us…
Session 42. checks in order to copy real
In this session, amongst the other prosecu- identity information and use them The CCF and FAI is an international
tion witnesses, appeared also a cop of the on fake id cards in order for them network of anarchists of praxis
antiterrorist force. to be convincing and of existing who stand against the enemy with the
This specific cop stated that he serves in the people. certainty of those who play it all or
“department against the anarchists”, causing nothing and refuse the proof of inno-
tension in the court room. In his testimony he CCF, 4th trial starts cence and legal mitigations.
added that he carried on him photos of some Session 1.
of those wanted for the CCF (to help him in 5th April 2013: One more trial for The Conspiracy and the Informal Anar-
locating them) and stressed that he took the actions of the CCF began at chist Federation through their hundreds of
orders directly from the “headquarters” of the Koridallos prisons. attacks express the black anarchy which
antiterrorist force. sets fire to the silence of the many and
During the examination of the rest of the Besides the members of the cowardice of the reformists.
witnesses, at some point the prosecutor Conspiracy accused in the same All the charges in your indictments are a
stated that it seems from the attitude of the case are also Dimitris Politis, piece of the anarchist history and the
comrades of the Conspiracy, shows that they Giannis Mihailidis, Giorgos armed course of the Conspiracy through
are indifferent about the charges, since as Karagiannidis, Alexandros the social desert of mass subjugation.
they themselves stress they take the respon- Mitrousias, Kostas Sakkas and It is our compass in the unmapped
sibility for the actions of the CCF and speak Stella Antoniou (who are also unknown of the anarchist insurrection.
of the continuation and intensification of the accused in the third trial which is It is the unique moment where theory
anarchist urban guerilla. taking place as well) and meets practice.
Kostandina Karakatsani and It is there where the law dies and
Session 41, Panagiotis Masouras. anarchy is born.
This session began with the testimony of an Theofilos Mavropoulos read a It is there where the sounds of the
appointed advocate. Let us note here that common statement of the now ten explosions and the gun shots break the
many comrades of the CCF because of their members of the CCF, after which calmness of the crowd.
refusal of any legal representation they have all members of the organization These moments are our moments. These
appointed advocates, since according to the left the room. history is our history.
legislation if the “accused” refuse to have an A history which cannot be put on trial,
advocate, then the court itself appoints one “As I have stated in a previous neither finishes inside the court room.
for them. The appointed advocate therefore court and in older public texts, I We are the gasoline, the gun powder, the
testified that a few days ago there was a have been next to the comrades detonator, the bullet, the gun.
burglary in his work office and the unknown of the CCF as a solidarian The only thing you will get from us is war.
burglars took from him documents concerning anarchist, without however being The Conspiracy is, was, itself.
the case of the CCF without stealing any- a member of the Conspiracy. From This is our Anarchy”.
thing else of value from him. the first moment of my arrest after
There was tension in the court room and the shoot out with the cops in G.Mihailidis read a common statement of
eventually the appointed advocates left and Pefki, the comrades of the Con- his and D.Politis and then left the proce-
the trial was adjourned until the next session. spiracy stood next to me like dure.
brothers. Inside prison we shared “Give us a copy”, asked the chairman,
Session 40. common worries, tensions and “this statement is not for you”, answered
The whole session was about examining forged our steel passion for D.Politis, while the cops were cuffing
witnesses who either were owners of houses liberation through our common them.
which the CCF rented out as safe-houses, or escape attempt in December
their identity info was found on fake identity 2011. Today for me the CCF is an The statement:
cards. During the recognition-snitching of the inseparable piece of my thought, “We state that: We refuse to participate
comrades of the Conspiracy by the prosecu- my desires and my personal in the procedure of the court, not only
tion witnesses, it was impressive that a mutiny for anarchy. because it is a mean of the state to
comrade of the CCF was recognised as a This is why as of today, here in demean and bend the anarchist struggle,
tenant, with a fake id card, of a safehouse, at your court, I state that I join the not only because its function aims at the
the time that he was in prison. It is character- CCF and share together with the respite of anarchist action,but mainly
istic as it was proven by the juridical proce- imprisoned and non arrested because we do not recognize any
dure, that almost all the safe-houses of the members the endless course to institutional representative of the bour-
Conspiracy which have been discovered so the anarchist insurrection. Partici-
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geois democracy to judge people. The only thing I’d like to clarify is much to show its side effects. At that
As anarchist revolutionaries we stand the part concerning torture, as this point I asked myself some questions:
hostile against the bourgeios justice was quite a big thing. I know that were fraud and corruption leading the
which sends people to the rot of impris- in society the image of someone system to crisis isolated cases or is the
onment in order to defend the criminal who got beaten up can generate crisis itself a pre-arranged plan that
lawful order of capitalism. Also, we fear, compassion or doubts. But serves to achieve yet more profits? Was
support the anarchist revolutionary war this is not the case with us the ‘crash’ of the bank system due to
in every one of its forms. comrades. I also want to say that lending or was it a capitalist trick for
We are part of the violent and guerilla the State intentionally allowed our more concentration of capital, for an
action and will defend it as an insepa- photos be made public, and they even bigger capitalization?
rable part of the struggle.” did so with the intent to terrorize Surely we are facing an unprecedented
those who might think to do what crisis in capitalist reality and surely the
we did. Perhaps it was a ‘mistake’ crisis was preceded by the ‘crash’ of the
due to hurry and the fact that any bank system. But we are talking about
operation of the Anti-terrorism two sides of the same counterfeit coin.
Squad is done almost automati- Capitalism couldn’t exist without the bank
Letter from anarchist cally. Be that as it is, I don’t want system nor would exist one of the most
to concentrate on this now. important means of capital concentration.
prisoner Andreas- Instead, I’d like to shortly talk As the State was called in to fill up bank
about the thoughts that crossed safes when the crash of the bank system
Dimitris Bourzoukos my mind during the time we were was imminent, so banks were called in to
beaten up. strengthen investments and pave the way
to a new capitalization of the banks
A.D. Bourzoukos is one of the 4 anar- I never felt like a victim and of immediately after the collapse of the
chist comrades arrested on 1st February course I don’t want that others State machinery. A vicious circle that
2013 following the double robbery consider me as such. During those serves to spare death to moribund
carried out in Velventòs four hours of continuous beating capitalism.
one of the things I was thinking
‘It wasn’t quite dawn yet about was the possible scenarios Looking at the brief history of Greece in
But I have never accepted defeat’ on the ‘end’ the cowardly and the European Union and at its economic
bully pigs had in mind. Neither fear collapse I can only interpret it as some-
25 minutes past midday. The last time I nor pain, just anger. In spite of thing that was planned in advance, both
had a look at the time. Behind us a how much truth can hurt, you just Greece’s collapse and that of other
patrol car and in the van my two com- take someone by the hair and put European countries hit by the crisis. As
rades, the ‘hostage’ and I. Only a few them on their knees. While the Greece joined the euro zone with a
minutes earlier our emotions were beating was going on without ‘creative logistics’ (as Greek logistics has
completely different. For an instant, stopping I recalled all the years been called), prime minister Simitis talked
everything seemed to be perfectly all when I had chosen to clash with about a wonderful era and presented
right, until they arrested our comrade in this rotten system. All my choices Greece as a strong country, in constant
the ‘ambulance’. All of a sudden we lost and thoughts became flesh and development, just like any other EU state.
heart but in spite of this we remained as bones. Perhaps one single minute And at that time the middle class hoped
much lucid as we could, and in this way with my hands tied would have in the advent of the capitalist heaven.
we managed to ensure our comrades’ been enough. Perhaps the torture But this ended with the 2008 crisis, the
escape. was just a proof confirming how ‘mark’ of the capitalist system, and the
the system is rotten. beginning of collapse. What followed was
Let’s go back to the picture of the But let’s talk about money now, once again ‘creative logistics’, this time
beginning: the three of us along with the the money that flows abundantly introduced by Giorgios Papandreu so as
‘hostage’ in the van and an ‘accidental’ (including during these times of Greece could benefit of financial support
encounter (actually it was not at all crisis) in banks, public offices and mechanisms (IMF-ECB). And then we
accidental because the alarm had been all kinds of capital investment (like came where we are today, to the total
raised in all the surrounding villages) Cosco). This is the blood of selling off of people’s lives and the
with a patrol car. In the last minutes of capitalism. elimination of human dignity. Of course
our freedom the countdown had already this goes hand in hand with low-cost
started. What we said to each other in My refusal to become yet another investments and opportunities for the
the van is not relevant to our story, what well-oiled clog of the system is plunder of nature, as they are doing
is relevant is our final decision. We one of the many reasons why I today in several places.
wouldn’t have fired and put the doctor’s decided to carry out a bank
life in danger. But it was our only choice robbery (personally I call it ‘expro- Lived experiences and the unbearable
at that moment. However the only priation’). I mean I’ve never wanted pressure imposed on society are suffi-
weapon we had in those conditions was to be another ‘pedestrian’ on this cient to demonstrate the dirty face of
our passion for freedom. And we used it earth, one who has a ‘normal’ job capitalism in all its clarity. I recognize my
as best as we could. After a chase in the and a ‘normal’ life. I didn’t take action as expropriation. To me the real
streets of Veria, just like in a film, we got much to understand that work thieves are those who administer bank
finally trapped by a patrol passing there aims at exploiting the human being executive bodies and the state apparatus.
by chance, in a dead end road. It is for the sake of Capital, of the An obvious assistant of the crisis of the
pointless to tell the rest of this story concentration of capital in the system is repression, be it generalized or
once again. hands of few, which doesn’t take aimed at an objective, and repression is
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meant to terrorize and debilitate the It was easy to imagine what was I’m in a society very much varied and I
whole society. Its main target is the wide to happen in the days following my always struggle for myself, my comrades,
anarchist-subversive spectre, which often arrest. Some special prosecutor in the definitive destruction of the system
acts as detonator and catalyst for charge of terrorism-related cases and the total collapse of the existent.
insurrection, tensions and the anger that (can he be named Mokkas?) This does not mean that I will stop
is increasingly spreading in different would summon me on the basis of criticizing those who deserve my critique
social sectors. empty evidence, apart form the because they are responsible for
conjectures of the Antiterrorism, maintaining and reproducing a rotten
The paradox of the repressive politics of and point at me as a member of and oppressing system with their
the State can be seen in the way it also some organization. Confirmation of tolerance and indifference.
strikes other social sectors that resist as this didn’t take long to come.
it describes them as ‘illegal and terrorist I was summoned by the special ‘This revolution must be violent, even if
people who only want destruction’. An investigation judge (in fact he’s violence is not right in itself. It would be
example of this is the spasmodic reaction called Mokkas), who included me absurd to hope that the privileged ones
of the State after the events of Skouries. in the revolutionary organization recognize the suffering and injustice
The massive fire that totally destroyed Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. Of caused by their privileges and that they
the equipment of the gold mines was course I recognize the actions of decide to voluntarily renounce them.’
quickly labelled as ‘terrorist attack’. It is a the CCF and its members as Violence emerges from inside us and it
fact I welcome and I’m on the side of revolutionary, but this doesn’t is the only worthwhile response to the
those who realized it. The only possible prevent me from saying that I’ve decay and misery generated by the
dialogue with a multinational that wants got nothing to do with this organi- system. The radicalization of society is
to destroy and plunder nature for its zation. I’ve never been a member obvious nowadays. The historically
profits’ sake is pure and hard attack. I of it because of essential differ- important question is: where is this
acknowledge the courage of the people ences in both projectuality and the polarisation heading to? A tangible
who opted for direct action and took their general perception of society. By example of this tension can be seen in
lives in their hands. They caused fatal making me a member of the CCF the growing percentage of votes gained
injury to both the ‘El Dorado’ enterprise the State can easily increase my by Golden Dawn [Neo-Nazi political
and the State. This is also the reason sentence and consequently the party] during the elections, and the
why on the following day the entire years I should spent in prison. But recurrent episodes of racist attacks in
village of Skouries was literally inundated I think this is just putting all in the the centre of Athens. Clearly this is a
with forces of order, which promptly same bag, a flagrant grouping that superficial ‘extreme’ position because it
raided all the houses of the village. This automatically suppresses any lacks conscience. Presenting itself as an
method reminds of civil war and shows political attitude of a fighter. alleged ‘anti-system party’ Golden Dawn
the totalitarianism of the State, which has managed to recuperate most of the
turned the village into a war zone. Of ‘The price of self-determination anger of some social sectors.
course they also talked of the ‘involve- is never low, and in same cases Needless to say, I’m not a supporter of
ment of terrorist anarchists’ in this attack. it is incredibly expensive.’ the ‘theory of the extremes’, and I don’t
Since the beginning the media hastened consider Golden Dawn as anti-system. It
to locate the ‘terrorists who gave instruc- Certainly the trajectory to revolu- is even too clear to me that they are
tions for the attack’. Media tactics are tion and anarchy cannot be indeed part of the system and also a
well-known: denounce, terrorize and vilify covered with rose petals, but it is weapon of the system. This is the reason
always following the guidelines of the not the only trajectory either, no why Golden Dawn shouldn’t attract less
messenger in charge, the Security of The matter what the current situation attention than it deserves.
State, the Anti-terrorism Squad or the is like. Our means are well-known
government itself. Authentic ‘workers’ of and need constant development, We will organize for a multiform and
oppression and submission are digging and the range of choices we have lasting struggle to destroy work and its
graves – deep enough to allow everyone in our armoury is wide enough. I foundation of oppressive relations, and
in – so that the repressive arm can think that any revolutionary has to will do this through conscious expropria-
continue its work and the judiciary mafia have the necessary acuteness and tion of capitalist wealth with the aim of
can bury everything when resistance lucidity to choose the most strengthening and supporting the
occurs. adequate ‘weapons’ according to struggle. We will continue on the road of
the conditions. The road to direct action and total attack on the
In this way the delirium of the media resistance presents many aspects capitalist system. By constantly commu-
(Goebbels-style propaganda) also set off and we need a multiform struggle. nicating and stirring up the anarchist-
immediately after our arrest. Perfect stuff It can be a poster calling for a subversive environment as well as wider
for the news bulletins of terror and the strike, the occupation of some social sectors we can spread anarchist
screenwriters of the anti-terrorism fiction. state-owned building, arson on a relations and self-management of our
I can’t help recognizing a clear political bank, an explosive attack on some lives. By being constantly present in the
line adopted by the media when with structure of the State, expropria- streets and in wild street struggles we
pomposity and sensationalism they talked tion of the money belonging to the form our conscience and fighting soul,
about our ‘certain participation in other State: the goal is still the same, and violence spreads in the struggle.
actions besides the robbery’. Using a i.e. on the one hand to strike the No: molotov bottles and barricades are
tactic similar to that employed in Italy in structures and functions of not steps necessary to ‘climb higher’
the mid-nineties to strike the anarchists capitalism, on the other hand to and eventually dedicate oneself to gas
(ORAI case), the Greek state is trying to spread the means, practices and bottles, bombs and armed struggle.
repress all forms of resistance. conceptions of struggle for Instead, they constitute an inseparable
anarchy, for freedom. part of the struggle itself. One com-
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pletes the other. Street struggle is as Gabriel Pombo da Accused anarchist,
much necessary as is night sabotage
carried out with all means against the Silva transferred Henry Zegarrundo,
machinery of the State. Armed struggle is
back to Villena given house arrest
one of the expressions of the fight, an
indispensable expression that has to
Prison (Spain) (Bolivia)
support the wider struggles of the move-
ment and be supported by the latter. Any
sabotage separated from the struggles of
Remember that Gabriel was After nearly a year in prison since the
the movement and wider claims risks to
already in Villena and was trans- arrests, with over a dozen audiences
pass through history in low profile, as if it
ferred to Valdemoro to bring him to suspended, Henry has finally been granted
was an unimportant event, and finally be
the National Hearing to give house arrest pending trial!
erased.
testimony in relation to the events
in Italy (Operation Ardire). After
Let’s leave an indelible ‘imprint’ in history. “With dignity as an ally, friend, and
Gabriel’s refusal to give any
The moment has come, let’s make companion, and without bending before
statement, he was again trans-
revolution possible and destroy plutoc- power, despite an environment overloaded
ferred to Villena, again to keep him
racy, for anarchy. with police collaboration, our comrade has
distant from his environment of
honorably gotten out to be able to be with
family and friends.
Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos his own while awaiting resolution of the
His address is:
Koridallos prison, wing A case.”
Athens, Greece
Gabriel Pombo da Silva
March 2013 The day of international solidarity for
Centro Penitenciario Alicante II,
Ctra. N-330, km. 66, May 29 is still on: the accusations have
03400 Villena (Alicante) not been withdrawn, one anarchist is still
Spain locked up as part of the case, people are
still on the run, and the highway is still
being built. Solidarity is a weapon!
Manolada: Workers
demand pay, Golden
Mayday build up Letter from Stefano
Dawn open fire
for anti-G8 (UK) Gabriele Fosco to
(Greece)
Liberacion Total,
Anti-capitalists have been gearing
200 workers (almost all of them from up for the protests against the G8 Material Anarquista,
Bangladesh) went to the offices of their Summit with Mayday actions
Publicaciòn Refractario
across the country. The focus was
company in the region of Manolada
on Primark and other businesses
(Peloponnese) to ask for six months of & Viva la Anarquia con-
profiting from the global slave
back wages.They were blocked by armed
labour system which led to the
security staff, paid by the boss to defend cerning an anti-judicial
death of 700 people in
his propriety and himself. Faced with a
Bangladesh. There were angry
crowd insistently asking for what was non-controversy (Italy)
protests in central London,
theirs, the security reacted by shooting
Hackney, Lewisham, Birmingham,
and wounding at least 34 people. It
Brighton and Bristol, with the clear
To the dear comrades of Liberacion Total,
seems that Golden Dawn is implied in this
message going out that the
Material Anarquista, Publicaciòn
story and the government is helping them disaster was not an accident but
Refractario and Viva la Anarquia.
to cover up the facts. Thousands of the inevitable consequence of the
migrants are enslaved and often black- callous capitalist system.
I give you all my anarchist and brotherly
mailed because they don’t have docu-
solidarity following the attack you got from
ments and risk deportation. An interna- The anti-G8 activities will begin
a pseudo-nihilist asshole. There’s no
tional boycott of the products, especially on the weekend of 8-9 June, with censorship when one decides not to
strawberries, coming from this bloody workshops and skillshares in publish a text that attacks a prisoner while
region has been launched with the cry of preparation for the #J11 Carnival the investigation on him is still ongoing.
Boycott Manolada’s Strawberries! Against Capitalism on 11/6.
There will be an anti-militarist
It must be known that in Italy there is no
demo on 12/6 and a No Borders
anti-judicial controversy. There are only
No Prisons! day on 13/6.
assholes playing the same game as
repression.
On April 17 2013 two secret agents came
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to the prison of Ferrara. The door of the cabin had not submitted the transcripts of the missing
They didn’t say their name, they only been forced… environment bugging. After two delays
wanted to have a chat with me on ‘the requested by the court, these transcripts
anti-judicial controversy’. They were Among hundreds of users, why did should be ready by June 5 (it seems that
surprised at the fact that I didn’t take part they cut the wire of my connec- the experts can’t understand or transcribe
to this controversy. I told the cops that I tion? If someone had meant to Neapolitan dialect, which had sounded so
was anarchist and wouldn’t damage the cabin they wouldn’t clear to the judges from Genoa when it
talk with them or the judges for any have cut just one wire but all of was used to corroborate the charges,
reason. them or most of them; and they according to the arrogant methods always
would have forced the door of the employed to interpret environment bug-
My anarchism is indestructible and it cabin instead of opening it with a ging.)
doesn’t allow some provocateurs to key.
blacken me. The attacks on me and on the As concerns the results of the examina-
comrades who show solidarity with me I don’t think it was an accident or tions carried out by the RIS [a special
continue because I’m in a prison inside a something that happened by technical investigations unit of the state]
prison. chance, considering the air you to compare the traces of gunpowder
breathe in the city in this period. found on the helmets seized in Nicola’s
I’m sorry I have to waste time and energy Meantime we have found back house and the weapons lawfully owned by
on this infamous provocation. I’d like to the ‘Arianne’s thread’, and the his father found in the same house, they
carry on with what I’ve always done and written and live radio counter- should be available in May.
you are brilliantly doing with your blogs. information is continuing. We
hope we’ll be able to celebrate as As pointed out in previous updates, after a
Brothers and sisters, a big rebellious hug we did in the last year thanks to failed attempt at linking the traces of
from the high security unit of the prison of Pier Luigi Vigna (former anti-mafia gunpowder to the bullets used in the
Ferrara. prosecutor ) and Antonio wounding of Adinolfi, the prosecutors of
Manganelli* (national chief police, Genoa tried it again, this time for the sake
Stefano Gabriele Fosco former chief police of Naples, or of 270bis, and clumsily envisaged an
Individualist anarchist prisoner rather former chief of those who imaginary ‘shooting training’ undergone by
(Prison of Ferrara, April 19 2013) quite likely cut the wire of the investigated comrades, of course
RadioAzione)… reconfirming that without specifying where and when it took
Stefano Gabriele Fosco it will be our laughter that will place (not to mention the fact that the
C.C. Via Arginone, 327 bury you! helmets were seized during raids without
44122 Ferrara the cops adopting any ‘scientific’ criteria,
Italy RadioAzione as they touched the ‘evidence’ with their
radioazione.noblogs.org dirty hands, carried it in their cars and to
places where the defenders of disorder
* Vigna died last year and normally play with gunpowder.)
Manganelli this year… causes for
celebration (TN) A new investigation of the ROS [special
operations unit] was also put on record.
This concerns farther examinations on the
RadioAzone: Wires of printers seized during the raids in the
investigated comrades’ houses, with the
the telephone line and aim of comparing them with the leaflets of
Update about the claim of the attack on Adinolfi: this
ADSL found cut (Italy) time the experts are compelled to admit
anarchist prisoners that the leaflets are not compatible with
either the ink or printing defaults of the
From RadioAzione: Nicola and Alfredo printers, thus contradicting an earlier
forensic examination which referred to a
As I was updating the blog of RadioAzione (Italy)
generic printing default very common to a
yesterday afternoon, I found that the
great numbers of printer brands available
internet connection was no longer there.
on the market.
Similarly the telephone line was not 24th April 2013 – As preliminary
working. Nothing strange, apparently, as investigations came to an end on
Comparative examination between DNA
technology is subjected to this kind of March 11 2013, Nicola and
traces found on the handles of the
faults (besides many others, or rather it is Alfredo will go on trial for 280bis
scooters allegedly used during the attack
technology itself the main fault). I (attack with purposes of terror-
and the DNA of 5 people investigated and
promptly called the responsible for the ism), a proceeding also linked to
searched in September, was also put on
ADSL and telephone contract and they the wounding of Ansaldo Nucleare
record by the RIS of Parma. As this
said that everything was all right to them. manager Roberto Adinolfi, whose
comparison produced negative result,
After repeating that it was not all right, case (270bis - Subversive
there came the nth attempt at investigat-
they sent an engineer this morning. He association) remains open for the
ing Alfredo for a double explosive attack
checked the cabin in the street (which two comrades plus another one.
on… the RIS of Parma that took place
contains the telephone connections of all
back in 2005 and was claimed by FAI/
the inhabitants of the area) and found it No date has been fixed for the
Cooperativa artigiana fuoco e affini. It
out that a wire had been cut… not preliminary hearing for 280bis, as
must be said that the mixed traces of DNA
disconnected but cut… the prosecution has not yet
found on the wrapping of the device
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outside the headquarters of the ‘scien-
tists’ in 2005 were not reliable as
evidence, as the cops themselves
admitted adding that they had also
touched the wrapping before carrying
out examination. Nonetheless public
prosecutor Federico Manotti has
ordered Alfredo be questioned on the
matter on May 7 in the prison of
Ferrara… perhaps the prosecutor wants
to ask him for suggestions on how to Briefing on control systems Lecce: Update on re-
accuse him and for what charges.
(A text from Italy)
pression and anti-mili-
In this case too the judge from Genoa is
From a first reading of the court
wielding article 280bis, even if it is clear tarist protests (Italy)
papers more detailed technical
that this investigation attempt is the
points emerge besides the
result of random fishing out from a
traditional control methods such On April 19 2013 the appeal sentence
270bis file concerning a number of
as shadowing, visual control,
was pronounced at the court of Lecce,
investigated people (25 to 30, accord-
video monitoring of cameras
ing to press releases), which refers to where some anarchists from Salento
placed outside houses and
many attacks claimed by various groups [Lecce] stood on trial. In 2010 the
workplaces, use of bugs and
of the Informal Anarchist Federation comrades had been sentenced to one
satellite signals in cars, phone
from 2003 onwards between Liguria, year imprisonment for resistance against
tapping, internet monitoring, etc.
Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Lombardy. public official. They had been pressed
The new points are three, as
The media also said that the prosecu- this charge because they had unfurled
already said a few months ago:
tion of Genoa ‘snatched’ the investiga- an anti-militarist banner during a public
the request for authorization of
tion on the attacks on the RIS and concert and had defended it from the
installing cameras inside houses
Cofferati from their colleagues from (authorization that the investigat- DIGOS’ attempt at snatching it. The
Bologna. ing judge refused to grant, appeal trial concluded with the acquittal
allowing only audio monitoring), of all the defendants.
Beyond career rivalries and jealousies
the use of laptop cameras as On April 11 2013 a group of anti-
between prosecutors and beyond the
bugs which can be activated by a militarists staged a protest in piazza Saint
historical conflict between ROS and
special software (in which case Oronzo in Lecce, where various associa-
DIGOS [political police], the absolute
the sneaks’ eavesdropping is not tions were demonstrating in favour of two
incongruity and contradictions displayed
live as happens with traditional Italian soldiers, Girone and Latorre. The
in the use of forensic examinations is
microphones) and the use of comrades unfurled a banner, distributed
remarkable. This kind of examinations
battery powered environment bugs leaflets and made speeches through a
are totally unreliable, to say the least;
with built-in recorder to be placed
megaphone. On the occasion, the events
they are good to create media/accusa-
in houses and neighbourhoods.
tory suggestions rather than prove that led to the 2010 trial were also
something, as the script of the judges mentioned.
It is useful to bear in mind that old
and cops’ s dirty job always reads.
and new control technologies
On the previous day the comrades also
don’t need sophisticated methods
Nothing new under the sun: these are intervened during the European Film
or expensive equipment to be
the usual wretched cogs of a world that Festival, and in particular during the talk
discovered. Quite often the
must be destroyed. entitled ‘Relations between Puglia and
technicians who install them
Israel’, which hosted the representative
leave traces of their dirty visits,
Solidarity with the comrades locked up for example broken locks, dis- for culture of the Israeli embassy in Italy.
in the dungeons of the state in Italy and placed furniture and objects, Through a megaphone, a banner and
everywhere.
oddities in the internet connec- leaflets, the comrades expressed solidar-
tion, background noises in the ity with the Palestinians oppressed by
To write to the comrades:
telephone, shadowy individuals Israel (it seems that no documentaries
outside the house, strange shown during the film festival took any
Alfredo Cospito
customers at the workplace, account of the existence of Palestinians).
Nicola Gai
diligent escorts accompanying The comrades also reminded the audi-
C.C Via Arginone 327
your trips out, etc. It is up to our ence that in the village of Gagliano del
44122 Ferrara
intelligence and love for life to Capo (Lecce) a made in Israel anti-
Italy
find the way of mocking them and
migrants radar antenna is about to be
prevent them from making our
- installed (the antenna has been tested by
lives heavier.
Israel in the Palestinians’ occupied
Solidarity bank account territories and subsequently exported to
For more info:
Account name : Paolo Perona the rest of the world). In Puglia it is
nidieunimaitres (at) gmail.com
IBAN IT10 TO76 0101 0000 0101 supposed to intercept small and big
0767 885 boats of ‘illegal migrants’.
An enemy of militarism
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Three letters of advice insert/introduce with only one explosion and a grave mortal accident.
By the same error of “apprentice” I had,
movement the fuse/fuses to the
for saboteurs from charge only in the place of attack also according to the experts of the acts
in my penal summary/folder, a great deal
and later activate the timer for the
Marco Camenisch of luck when I sabotaged a transformer
electrical circuit.
and other targets on the perimeter of an
Marco Camenisch,
electric substation utilizing electronic
Regensdorf prison, Switzerland
Greetings and advice from Marco detonators and electric wire to connect
27.06.09
Camenish to the compañerxs of chile in the separate charges as well as a
relation to Mauri’s death. commercial electronic device to detonate
-
the charges.
Dear compañerxs,
Urgent advisory from a veteran
I implore you to send these greetings and Marco Camenisch,
saboteur to the anonymous
this simple but perhaps important advice to in Swiss prison,
saboteurs of the August 2008
the compas of Chile and everywhere else. November 2008
post in Farellones, Chile.
Allow me to express the latter because I
have experience, because even the most *http://liberaciontotal.lahaine.org/?p=519
In relation to the sabotage in
experienced guerrillas “weren’t thinking
about this, the trivial and banal means that Chile, Aug. 12, 2008* (which -
allow one to save their skin during the according to the press involved
dangerous art of handling “explosive an electric detonator), a veteran
On derailments and stupidities…
powders! saboteur is obliged to offer this
Letter from a veteran saboteur about
valuable assessment to every
the case of Adrián in México
saboteur of towers, antennas, and
So on my part as well, from inside of Swiss
other similar instruments.
prison, I send a strong embrace of
This is a continuation of a valuable
solidarity to our compañeras and
technical assessment written by a
compañeros from Chile! Honor to Urgent advisory from a veteran
veteran saboteur. In relation to the
compañero Mauricio!!! What goes for our saboteur to the anonymous
Adrian’s detention* an analyst wrote: “To
warriors who have fallen during combat saboteurs of the August 2008
derail a train, a terrible idea. The most
goes for those of us kidnapped by the post in (Farellones) Chile and in
prevalent account of the derailment was
enemy as well: those of us who continue general to all individuals actively
provided by the police. This version
fighting, the utmost solidarity we keep in engaged in sabotage around the
facilitated by the police and accepted by
life, because our community is fighting. world!
journalists and analysts has little
What is useless (except for the enemy) and
credibility and collapses in light of the
tragic for the struggle is solely those who, Electric filaments and/or devices input by this veteran saboteur. Now, two
when a compañerx dies fighting or falls and/or detonators and/or possibilities remain standing: an
prisoner in the hands of the enemy, points connections and other elements unsuspecting transportation of the
with a hypocritical finger, murmuring of on single or separate charges artifact on the train or an action that
“useless death, useless imprisonment, of should not be used for posts, failed in its intent.
“tragedy, etc. transformers, and other electric
installations surrounded by an
It is obvious how purely propagandist and
As a veteran combatant, it is with pain, but electro-magnetic field, only
defamatory the disinformation
with humility as well, that I reflect on the mechanical or chemical filament
surrounding Adrián’s case is, as well as
possible causes of such an accident. should be used and/or, if
the fact that some canisters of butane
Could it have been a short circuit (perhaps necessary a modern filament for
gas did not even tickle a train or some
activated by a timer) of an electric two or more charges attached to
tracks.
detonator with a spark submerged directly the same structure, or a
In order to even put a wrinkle in a
into the black powder? Then there is a connection with blasting caps
railroad track (possibly capable of
simple trick to avoid deaths, injury, and should utilize a chemical or
causing a derailment) at least a few
imprisonment. Well constructed, it does not mechanical detonator/filament as
hundred grams of high power explosive is
impede the success nor the timing (in the well.
needed (in which the accompaniment of
place, in the delay) of the operation. A
gas makes no technical sense) and if we
slow burning fuse (or more than one, All of this is necessary because
say (the calculation will be an
parallel, they are easy to make) should the electro-magnetic field which
underestimation) the cut side of a track
always be inserted between the electric surrounds the electric conductors/
is 50 sq. cm, in order to shear it, the
detonator with the spark on one side and installations can easily charge
calculation is easy (25 grams of military
the charge on the other, a fuse which in through induction each electric
grade explosive per square cm), and
the case of an early or accidental ignition, element and set off an
would take around 1.25 kilograms of high
can be seen or heard during the uncontrollable explosion during
power explosive.
transportation and handling for activation; the application/preparation of the
Later, if we take in to account, that for
the same fuse has to be long enough to device with tragic consequences
example commercial dynamite is weaker
count seconds or perhaps centimeters easy to imagine, as happened for
and that with black powder (which should
necessary to place oneself in safety and example to Feltrinelli in Italy or in
be carefully placed behind a container of
possibly, to extract or cut, disconnecting one case in Austria when an
stable material, such as a thick plate,
the charge and therefore guaranteeing the electric prong was applied to a
since inside of a simple “bottle” a flare
safety of eventual passer-bys- and high-tension power pylon resulting
up or shaking would not do a thing to a
obviously even more secure would be to in an uncontrolled and premature
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8mm rod) the amount has to be hunted individuals and collectives Portugal and perversely mistreated in a
multiplied six times in order to achieve of liberation extend and bond, are regime of punishment who has been on
the same effect and level of destruction, never extinguished nor disappear. hunger strike since April 1st.
this would take at least 6 to 7 kilos of Where some capitulate and return
black powder, well the distortion of the to the normality of a citizen of -Every imprisoned individuality in the whole
“facts” of the “article” is clear from here. capital, others sincerely, and with world who fights against power.
everything, rebel.
The hypotheses is that that was used
-The anonymous in insurrection,
against the tracks (implicit in the case of
Against all authority, against the autonomous, and anti-authoritarians who
the jokes about the “derailment”), it
prisons and jailers, their borders, attack, practice the revolutionary
would not deter traffic for even a
the mercantile dictatorship, the experience, and walk the path of the
moment. If the “news” of the “smoke in
false critics, various reformists, permanent offensive against all that
the train” was true we would still be
adaptive pseudo-radicals…against oppresses us.
facing an explosion of clumsy and
all that exists that robs us of life…
precocious fabrication.
There are memories of resistance -Those who in solidarity accompanied us
and subversive struggle where this past Wednesday, the 24th, outside of
Furthermore, it is not casually that one of
there is a thirst for justice…in a the “justice center” in Santiago, attempting
the “rules” of the urban guerrilla is to
sterile high-security cell, in the to demonstrate, and who were arrested by
avoid as much as possible the
beautiful darkness of a mountain the pigs.
transportation of artifacts and/or
lined with clandestine footprints,
explosives aboard mass public transit due
in anonymous urban sabotage, -To the hermanxs in the Argentine region
to the potential grave danger to those
penetrating their guarded centers who manifested as well on Wednesday
“unaware of the facts”, danger which is
of power…in a poem-song, in a outside of the Chilean consulate in Buenos
already sufficiently great with all other
text-declaration, in an honest Aires and at the doors of the Chilean
methods of transportation in a populated
surrender to the heart…memory capitalist retail trash called Fallabella.
environment…
and subversion exist independent
of the pounding waves of -Those who conspire in minority sectors
A veteran saboteur, repression. promoting conflict, calling for social
war…I’m thinking of you and carry you with
Marco Camenisch. Our negations are infinitely more me…
potent then their domination,
* Brief summary of Adrian’s situation: charges, and threats, are proudly “Because not one sentence will be
http://www.directaction.info/ fed by our desires and perpetual and not one prison high-security”
prison_Mexico.html necessities, by our indomitable Claudia López B.
dignity which we do not buy nor
sell…we are willingly irrepressible, -Hans Niemeyer, recaptured Thursday the
never forgetful!! 26th and clumsily indicted by the
prosecutor and police in order to satisfy
I think of and carry with me: democracy’s anti-bomb thirst for
Marcelo Villarroel ‘Let’s vengeance.
-Zoe, a young compañerita
walk together: it’s time
libertaria who died April 30, 2009 -Carla and Iván locked up in their houses
handling an explosive device in an under the same capitalist thirst for
to fight!!’ (Chile)
abandoned factory in Cogna, vengeance.
Chanbery, France while we were
prisoners at Unidad 11 in To break with immobility and acceptance, to
“Because one who forgets the captives
Newken, Argentina. construct networks of complicity, to take
of war completely forgets the same war.”
back the practice and ideas of subversion
Gerasimos Tsakalos,
-The three compañeras and two and revolutionary solidarity…
CCF member in prison.
compañeros, political prisoners
incarcerated since Dec. of last For anti-capitalist internationalism,
The chapters of confrontation which we
year in Bariloche, Río Negro, autonomous, and libertario…
live as hostages of the state-prison-
Argentina as a result of the
capital are many and lived daily, there are
mobilization of popular sectors Let’s go, walking together, it time to fight!!
no pauses in war. Domination crushes
tired of their misery. Prisoners of the Social War…to the street!!
lives in the centers of extermination and
While misery exists, there will be rebellion!!
isolation, in the places of wage
-Nicola Gai, Alfredo Cospito,
exploitation, in the temples of
combative anarchist prisoners Against prison, the state, and
indoctrination and lobotomy which
held in Ferrara, Italy, for the attack capital….Total liberation!!
serially create teams of managers,
carried out in 2012 against the
professionals of democracy, citizens of
executive director of Ansaldo Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
social peace, slave-sheep of the military-
Nucleare.
police complex which controls a large
Libertarian prisoner
part of the planet. But the multiform
-Jaime Gimenes Arbe, an
offensive resistance is not a pantomime
anarchist prisoner of direct action CAS – Santiago – Chile
nor a mere pose. it is a permanent act-
of Basque origin, held captive April 30, 2013
option-experience which manifests in all
since 2007 in prison in Monsanto,
moments and aspects of our lives. The
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