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Update uit Griekenland
oohv - 06.05.2010 17:02
Update uit Griekenland- Namen van de doden bekend gemaakt; bankmedewerkers staken vandaag ter nagedachtenis aan de slachtoffers; smeris voert ongekende aanvallen uit in Athene
Dit is een kort bericht vertaald van after the greek riots, waar nog meer veel meer te lezen is:  http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/
Voor dit artikel met beeld klik: http://olieophetvuur.6x.to/
Donderdag 6 mei 2010
De namen van de drie bankmedewerkers die stierven in het filiaal van de Marfin bank die gister in brand gestoken is, zijn bekend gemaakt. Zij zijn Paraskeui Zoulia, 35; Aggeliki Papathanasopoulou, 32 en Epameinondas Tsakalis, 36.
Wij zijn allen erg getroffen en verdrietig door hun tragische dood en het is extreem moeilijk om verslag te blijven doen vanuit hier in Athene. Maar de ontwikkelingen zijn zo cruciaal, dat het belangrijk is om het toch te doen. In het kort:
* Ten eerste, een korte disclaimer. Geen anarchist zou expres het leven van andere mensen in gevaar brengen. Bankfilialen zijn al jaren een regulier doelwit voor protesten op de straten van Athene; daarom zijn banken altijd dichtgetimmerd op demonstratie dagen. Om werknemers op te sluiten in een filiaal van de bank langs de route van de grootste demonstratie die het land heeft gezien sinds haar post-dictatoriale tijdperk is moordende verzuiming.
* In de onderstaande video, arriveert Mr. Vgenopoulos, de eigenaar van de Marfin Bank bij de bank, kort nadat de dood van zijn medewerkers is bevestigd. De verzamelde menigte schreeuwt hem herhaaldelijk “moordenaar” toe. Rond de 43ste seconde van het filmpje, schreeuwt een van de mensen: “Hoeveel jachten bezit je?”, op dat moment steekt Vgenopoulos 3 vingers op.
* Vandaag is de dag dat het parlement stemt over de bezuinigingen. De overkoepelende vakbond GSEE heeft opgeroepen voor demonstratie vandaag om zes uur; PAME overkoepelende vakbond die dicht bij de communistische partij staat heeft opgeroepen voor een avondlange blokkade van het parlement.
* Gisteren heeft de smeris in Exarchia meer ongekende aanvallen uitgevoerd: er was een inval in de linkse “Haunt of Migrants” zonder enige voorgaande provocaties: de ME stormde naar binnen, deuren slopend, mensen beukend, schreeuwend: “Vanavond helpen we jullie naar de klote”.
Een paar momenten later werd er binnengevallen in het anarchistische kraakpand op de Zaimi Straat. Ooggetuigen zeggen dat de smeris kogels naar binnen schoot en handgranaten het pand in smeten. Alle mensen die binnen waren zijn gearresteerd. In totaal zijn er 70 mensen in hechtenis genomen, 25 worden vervolg. Een solidariteits bijeenkomst verzamelt zich bij de rechtbank van Athene.
* Vlak voor deze inval, viel de ME een cafe op de hoek van de Stournari Straat en Tsamadou Straat bij exarcheiaplein aan. In de video hieronder zijn ze te zien terwijl ze de gevel van het cafe slopen terwijl er mensen binnen zijn. In de laatste paar seconden van video vind de volgende dialoog plaats:
[ME]: Verwijder het nu, onmiddellijk. Waarom film je? Wie gaf je toestemming?
[camera] Waarom?
[ME] Om dat ik dat godverdomme zeg.
 E-Mail: olieophetvuur@riseup.net  Website: http://olieophetvuur.6x.to/
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zie voor filmpje van vandaag waarin de directeur van de bank het afgebrande filiaal bezoekt: http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/
After the tragic death of the three workers made the round of Athens, new clashes started to spread in the Greek capital, with a large crowd gathered outside the burned bank when Marfin's boss tried to visit the site. Clashes broke out between the crowd and police when the former attacked the bank magnate accusing him of forcing the dead workers to scab on a general strike and locking them in the building despite them demanding to evacuate it since 12:00.
In Parliament the Communist Party of Greece has accused the government for the deaths, claiming it was a result of agents provocateur fascist groups. The claims of the Communist Party are based on the fact that 50 fascists tried to enter the PAME demo bearing the flags of the union earlier in the morning. The fascists were spotted, chased and sought refuge behind riot police lines. Accusing the extreme-right as being behind the deaths, the Coalition of Radical Left has declared in Parliament that the government cannot pretend to be in grief for the loss of life, as it has been attacking human life by all means possible.
Meanwhile, extended clashes broke out in Salonika where approximately 50,000 people marched destroying dozens of banks and corporate shops in Greece’s second largest city. Clashes with the police continued for several hours. According to news broadcasts anarchist have occupied the Labour Center of the city.
In Patras, around 20,000 protesters were joined by tractor drivers and garbage truck drivers on their vehicles, as flaming barricades were erected along central streets of the city and clashes developed between protestors and the police.
In Ioannina the protesters attacked banks and corporate shops leading to extended use of chemicals by the police. In Heraklion, 10,000 people are reported as marching against the measures. In Corfu, protesters taking part in the anti-measures march occupied the County Headquarters. Protesters have occupied the Administrative Headquarters of Naxos and the City Hall of Naoussa.
As a result of the Athens riots, the police have cordoned off the entire center of the city, erecting check points of entry and exit, while all police work permits have been recalled. At the time of writing battles continue to rage in the inner city, while news broadcasts claim the police is mobilising its forces to storm an anarchist squat in Exarcheia.
| | geen discussie | nn - 07.05.2010 22:51
Ik gooi bij deze de discussie eraf,
alleen nieuws en aanvullingen blijven staan.
Wil je discussie ga naar revleft of kraak-forum,
of ravage of weet ik veel waar, maar iig
een plek die geschikt is voor discussie.
Het wordt hier anders onleesbaar en wie is er nou geinteresseerd in een 'ver van het vuur, veilig achter je pc' mening. Feiten en ooggetuige verslagen willen we zien!
groetjes de censuurknop van indy.
| | Counter-Info on the death of the 3 people | lola rent - 08.05.2010 00:56
On wednesday during the general strike in Athens 3 people died when
molotovs were thrown at a bank which was all closed up and appeared empty
but in fact the bosses of the bank had forced the employees to hide there
despite their repeated requests to leave. They were told that if they left
they would be fired.
This is off the occupied London website and is very necessary counter
information by the employees of the bank.
The Greek state is using the situation to try and vilify the anarchist
movement in Greece so counter information is very important at the
moment.
love & rage
#279 | An employee of the burnt bank speaks out on tonight’s tragic deaths
in Athens – please spread
Tonight’s tragic deaths in Athens leave little space for comments – we are
all very shocked and deeply saddened by the events. To those (on the
“Occupied London” blog even) who speculate that the deaths might have been
caused purposefully by anarchists, we can only reply the following: we do
not take to the streets, we do not risk our freedom and our lives
confronting the greek police in order to kill other people. Anarchists are
not murderers, and no brainwashing attempted by Greek PM Papandreou, the
national or the international media should convince anyone otherwise.
That being said, and with developments still running frantically, we want
to publish a rough translation of a statement by an employee of Marfin
Bank – the bank whose branch was set alight in Athens today, where the
three employees found a tragic death.
Read the letter, translate it, spread it around to your networks;
grassroots counter-information has a crucial role to play at a moment when
the greek state and corporate media are leashing out on the anarchist
movement over here in Greece.
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I feel an obligation toward my co-workers who have so unjustly died
today to speak out and to say some objective truths. I am sending this
message to all media outlets. Anyone who still bares some
consciousness should publish it. The rest can continue to play the
government’s game.
The fire brigade had never issued an operating license to the building
in question. The agreement for it to operate was under the table, as
it practically happens with all businesses and companies in Greece.
The building in question has no fire safety mechanisms in place,
neither planned nor installed ones – that is, it has no ceiling
sprinklers, fire exits or fire hoses. There are only some portable
fire extinguishers which, of course, cannot help in dealing with
extensive fire in a building that is built with long-outdated security
standards.
No branch of Marfin bank has had any member of staff trained in
dealing with fire, not even in the use of the few fire extinguishers.
The management also uses the high costs of such training as a pretext
and will not take even the most basic measures to protect its staff.
There has never been a single evacuation exercise in any building by
staff members, nor have there been any training sessions by the
fire-brigade, to give instructions for situations like this. The only
training sessions that have taken place at Marfin Bank concern
terrorist action scenarios and specifically planning the escape of the
banks’ “big heads” from their offices in such a situation.
The building in question had no special accommodation for the case of
fire, even though its construction is very sensitive under such
circumstances and even though it was filled with materials from floor
to ceiling. Materials which are very inflammable, such as paper,
plastics, wires, furniture. The building is objectively unsuitable for
use as a bank due to its construction.
No member of security has any knowledge of first aid or fire
extinguishing, even though they are every time practically charged
with securing the building. The bank employees have to turn into
firemen or security staff according to the appetite of Mr Vgenopoulos
[owner of Marfin Bank].
The management of the bank strictly bared the employees from leaving
today, even though they had persistently asked so themselves from very
early this morning – while they also forced the employees to lock up
the doors and repeatedly confirmed that the building remained locked
up throughout the day, over the phone. They even blocked off their
internet access so as to prevent the employees from communicating with
the outside world.
For many days now there has been some complete terrorisation of the
bank’s employees in regard to the mobilisations of these days, with
the verbal “offer”: you either work, or you get fired.
The two undercover police who are dispatched at the branch in question
for robbery prevention did not show up today, even though the bank’s
management had verbally promised to the employees that they would be
there.
At last, gentlemen, make your self-criticism and stop wandering around
pretending to be shocked. You are responsible for what happened today
and in any rightful state (like the ones you like to use from time to
time as leading examples on your TV shows) you would have already been
arrested for the above actions. My co-workers lost their lives today
by malice: the malice of Marfin Bank and Mr. Vgenopoulos personally
who explicitly stated that whoever didin’t come to work today [May
5th, a day of a general strike!] should not bother showing up for work
tomorrow [as they would get fired].
- An employee of Marfin Bank [greek original]
Website: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/
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