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Title: Concerning The Trial Author: Tasos Theofilou Date: May 29, 2013 Language: en Topics: Greece, crime, anarchist movement Source: Retrieved on June 16, 2013 from http://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=14480
In September begin the first arrests with the pretext of the
“dismantling” of the CCF, inaugurating the method of penalizing personal
relations between anarchists and distributing arrest warrants like
flyers. A tactic aimed at hurting not only the CCF, but the whole of the
anarchist movement. Essentially, the oppressive mechanisms will use this
specific organization as a reason to attack the anarchist movement
spreading fear and insecurity in its interior.
In October of the same year the Ministry of Public Order will be renamed
to the Ministry of Protecting the Citizen. A fact which will awkwardly
be interpreted as a self-conscious embellishment. But the timing of this
name change is not accidental. The period, that is, that the middle
class is abruptly losing its privileges and rights deducting the
substance of the status of citizen to that of a subject. The ministry in
question is responsible now to protect only a small guild of rulers and
capitalists who do not want to abandon their privileges.
Within the next few years a lot will change but the most important will
be the complete abandonment of the Keynesian model and the
transformation of labour from a right into privilege. The authority of
Capital is not in a position to offer the middle class dream anything
but oppression. The carrots are not even enough for motives any more and
only the whip can give a solution.
The breakout of the crisis, which was brewing since the end of the ’70s,
leads the capitalistic order, in its attempt to preserve its profits, to
tactics of crude accumulation and colonial policies even in the interior
of the Western World. Since it cannot achieve profits through the Holly
Growth, it indulges in looting. Thus, the authority of Capital is
militarized. It militarises labour, by conscripting workers. It
militarises the oppression, using the EKAM (special forces) with
insignificant pretexts. It militarises Justice, applying special laws
for the political spaces which resist.
Special laws, which for the time being are applied on the anarchist
movement and tomorrow will be applied onto any Brechtian variation.
Special laws, which say that it is enough that an anarchist is targeted
by the anti-terrorist force in order for them to be found wrapped in
hollow but massive indictments.
My prosecution is placed in this political conjuncture. A prosecution
based on the statutory of an anarchist and the tactic of penalization of
their personal and political relations.
A prosecution which on one leg, that of participation in the CCF, is
“based” on my social contact with anarchist comrade and friend Kostas
Sakkas. The interesting part is, that he himself also denies his
participation in this specific organization. The antiterrorist also
presents me, falsely, offering counter-surveillance measures at Agrinio
bus station to another accused for the same case, who, just for history,
also denies his participation in the organization.
On the other leg, my prosecution concerns my, by imagination of the
anti-terrorist, participation in the robbery of Alfa bank in Paro and
the deadly injury of a citizen who tried to stop the escape of the
robbers. A prosecution with sole evidence a dna sample taken from a
mobile object (hat) near the bank, evidence which does not mean I was
present at the robbery and for which I dispute the accuracy of the
procedure of collection and analysis of the sample.
On June 10^(th), therefore, I am called to appear at the 3^(rd)
three-member felonies appeals court on Loukareos street (Athens) accused
of participation in the CCF and additionally that as a member of this
specific organization I participated in the robbery of Alfa Bank in
Paros. Charges which I denied since the first moment.
Going against heavy charges in a massive indictment full of guesses by
the antiterrorists about my way of life and completely empty, of course,
of any evidence.
Trials are not theatrical plays. They are however rituals. Rituals,
where the authority of Capital replaces what it defines as Justice when
it considers that it has been disturbed. Rituals where social
associations are crystallized. In this specific trial, the stakes among
others, is so much the institutionalization of the penalization of
political spaces and struggles as much as the personal relations of
social fighters. The stabilization of a situation, where whoever resists
will be liable to authority not only for their identity as a resister
but for all the expressions of their social life. Or otherwise the
stabilization of a situation, where if someone is an anarchist is on its
own a guilt criterion.
All that will be left is that every friendship between anarchists will
be characterized as participation and integration in a terrorist
organization.