Former Nottingham Comrade in Greek Arrest
Tagged as: repressionNeighbourhoods: fields forest
Recently the greek state raided an anarchist squat in Thessaloniki and beat up and dragged away the residents, one of which was a comrade who until recently had been supporting greek prisoner solidarity in Nottingham. The comrade has been trailed and given a 1 year suspended sentence and has been released, currently recovering from the beating and the nearly broken hand sustained during arrest. the following is an extract from an email sent to me by them. For those in Nottingham who know this comrade, please attempt to contact them for support and more info on what happened.
"i'm not sure what you know about all this, but I been caught up in all
this, I was one of the 10 people found in the squat at the time.
http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2012/09/12/thessaloniki-delta-squat-evicted/
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/09/12/eviction-of-anarchist-squat-in-thessaloniki-took-place-following-orders-by-greek-pm-samaras-himself/
I don't know where to begin, it was surreal, we've all been
released just now, except for one, who is in touble because of his spanish
passport and is in an immigration concentration camp at the moment. I
alongside my Colombian comrade I just mentioned got the highest sentence,
1 year suspended sentence. Its all totally fucked up, the squat
depressingly has gone for sure, I wish you had seen it once before all
this happened. I wish i could explain in more details what happened,
but I'm exhausted, feel pain all over my body, the scum anti-terror police
beat us up in the raid, then we were forcibly made to give our finger
prints later at the police station, hand still hurts where they tried to
break it... just exhausted, going to go to sleep right now, please get
this out on indymedia uk some how"
gfdgfdgfd


Now we are all Persona Non Grata
Text released by our English comrade who was arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece. The arrestees now face further charges of damage to the building which amount to 3 million euros, if this cannot be paid then, imprisonment is most likely.
Our comrade is back on the streets of Greece, healed and taking part in actions including a motorcycle protestthe other day in solidarity with the squat.
http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2012/09/23/thessaloniki-now-we-are-all-persona-non-grata-text-by-an-english-comrade-who-was-arrested-during-the-raid-on-delta-squat/
Our comrade has expressed how finanical solidarity is needed right now especially with the heavy fines, a fundraiser I think is definity needed? With the intensified attack upon squatting in this country we must build solidarity between squatters from different countries facing the same or even more repression.