update on 3 arrested comrades in greece

Update 25th august

Today on the 25th of august Vasilis Palaiokostas was brought to pre-trial
court, where where was decided he will go to prison indeed until the real
trial.
About 25 solidarious people had gathered around the court house between
9:30 and 10:00 to show their warm feelings to Palaiokostas and their anger
against the system he has been sabotaging so fierce and rebellious for the
last decades, but has now captured him for to burry in their rotten
dungeons.
He defended himself, even though a lawyer was there for him, but not
present in the courtroom.
after about 3 hours he was taken out through the back entrance, with lost
of 'Ekami' (special elite forces) around him and bourgeois press jumping
on him. The people in solidarity couldn't come any closer then about 200
m. due to an aggressive line up from different kinds of police, but
shouted many slogans, which he certainly must have heard.
Someof these slogans (translated):

-"Cops, Pigs, Murderers!"
-"The passion for freedom is stronger then all prisons!"
-"Politicians, Industrialists, Kapitalistst; Hangings and kidnaps are
coming!"
-"Hate, Hate, Hate, Class-hate,
Kicks and punches to every employer!"

Until now, nothing is known what was said in the court by either
Palaiokostas, or the judges.
We will be back tomorrow morning for the trial of Vagelis and Polikarpos.

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Update 26th august

Further details of the case:
Today, Polikarpos and Vagelis were sent to the court, but declared
ofcourse nothing. They said they will make a statement at the trial.
Also the fourth man, Asimakis Lazarides, who was arrested on Crete was
send there today, seperately from the two comrades. When he got arrested
earlier, he already made a declaration to the police and it is clear that
he was the one that gave the crucial info to the cops concerning the
whereabouts and identity of the reast of the group. There was some
expectations he would change his testimony in court today, but this did
not happen. For the reason of this man being not only a bastard for
spending the money on luxury cars, casino's and prostitutes, but mainly
for being a snitch, the rest of the people have taken clear distance from
him.
The other four people are the family of Giorgos Haralabidis, another
famous Greek bankrobber, serving a prisontime at the moment of 16 years
for doing what he does; robbing banks. This friday he will go to pre-trial
as well, for his accused role in the kidnapping. In the meantime his time
in prison does not count for the sixteen years (of wich he has served 3,
years now). His family is accused for playing a minor role in the
kidnapping, and unfortunately, they have made statements to the police
while being under 24 hours secret arrest. The psychological pressure was
to much for them, and also they were obviously not very aware of the risks
of this case. It is not clear if they will stay in prison for a long time.
Yesterday Palaiokostas was send to prison of Korfu,
Kerkyra, which is known to be one of the worst and brutal prisons and more
difficult to escae from.
Vagelis today was send to the prison of Domokos and Polikarpo was send to
the prison of Loannina (Stavraki) wich is a prison with mostly long
senteced people.
For all of them counts that the pre-trial detention can take upto a
maximum of 18 months, if there has not been a trial by then thy should be
let out. It is of course in their case very unlikely that they will come
out any time soon, at least Palaiokostas is going in for a very long time.
Today the police announced to have also found a house in Peraia, where
Palaiokostas had kept 3 million euro's and a big stash of guns.


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for anarchy!