Political statement from Nikos Vogiatzakis -July athens-greece

August 16, 2011 by actforfreedomnow



Political statement from Nikos Vogiatzakis



On 23/9/2009, at 19.30, while coming out of the house of comrade

P.Masouras we were surrounded by 15-20 people of the anti-terrorist force,

wearing helmets and hoods and aiming at us with their guns, immobilized us

and led us to the cop car. Then a cop speaking on his mobile phone said

“we got them, we are coming.” Ofcourse when we asked them where we are

going and what happened, we got no answer. When we got to GADA (athens

police headquarters) they led us to the 12th floor and put us in two

different offices, where they told us to stand facing against the wall.

After a few arguements and tension the one in charge came in screaming

ecstaticly :”this is how the state fucks” and “we are at war”. Three-four

hours later after his delirium he invited me to his office for a “friendly

chat”. He began by saying that i am a good kid and im getting in trouble

for no reason, that my friend gave me up and all i have to do is tell him

everything i know and then i will be free.



He continued by intensely questioning me about situations i did’t know of.

Because I kept on asking why i am there and to communicate with my lawyer,

he took me to the office i was in earlier.



After a few hours, around 13.00 or 14.00 on 24/9, they announced to me

that i am free and if they need me they will call me again. To my

questions where Panagiotis is and why was in GADA for so many hours, they

replied that Panagiotis is arrested and i will learn the rest from the tv

when i get home.



From there on began a continuous surveillance of the anti-terrorist force

at an annoying level, until the 1st of February, when they arrested me

outside my house. When they led me to the 12th floor, they informed that

there is a warrant for my arrest since the 13th of January which idid not

know of desoite that they knew where i live. The evidence of my

prosecution were a blue plastic bag with a french pamphlet, that were

found in the house on 25 Martiou street in Halandri. When i was led to the

mafioso of the appeals court i was imprisoned with quick procedures. They

told me i don’t have a permanent residence although i was arrested outside

my house. They told me also that i could end up murdering someone with the

books i read.



I was led to prison and was released 1,5 month later. Whoever understands,

understands.



In September 2009 cops of the anti-terrorist force raid a house on 25

Martiou street in Halandri. There they find an explosive device in a

closet of one of the rooms in the house. Comrade Haris Hadjimihelakis is

arrested as well as M.G. and M.P. and warrants go out for 6 more people.

Panagiotis Masouras is arrested in Galatsi and is imprisoned. Comrades who

deny the charges are imprisoned with sole evidence a fingerprint in a

house or their friendly and comrade relations. This case has as a target

the penalization of friendly and comrade relations. The arrests of the

comrades and the warrants, were in the frames of dismanteling or causing a

wound to the R.O. C.C.F. in September 2009. They were the desperate

attempts of the government to reverse the the climate for the upcoming

elections of October 2009. After the elections PASOK continued the relay

race and the ministry of public order was taken over by sheriff

Chrisohoidis, who being “experienced” in the matter of “terrorism” (17th

November case, Revolutionary Popular Struggle case) continued his work by

targetizing political spaces. The next step was the 600.000 euro bounty on

comrades (S. and M.Seisidis and G.Tsironis). A move that would tempt a

society thirsty for intrigue and money. The warrants based on this logic,

continue, people get involved in the case without any evidence against

them, even without knowing their co-defendants. The clouzeausof the

anti-terrorist got to the point of claiming that parents of an accused

were members of the RAF, even that her father died in a shoot out with

cops which of course is not true. The media parrots contribute to this.

The circulation of photographs of wanted or arrested comrades like an icon

in the windows of tv-trials and police stations. The arrests, the raids

from the muts of the anti-terrorist force, the dozens of un-confirmed

infromation on the police snitching phone lines, the surveillance. Even

the photographs of personal moments or vacations are publicized in

newspapers from a snitch journalist known for his collaboration with the

police. The specific photographs were part of the court papers and should

not have access to them. The prosedure of information is filtered, creates

wrong impressions, darkening of the truth, partial information of the real

dimention of the events as well as partial use of it.



The reason of my persecution is political. I would be incosistent with my

political beliefs if i was waiting for my vindication through the

democratic prosedures and junta courts, which are set up in the soul

warehouses of the state. As an individual with dignity i do not accept

appeal judges to butcher or nuns prosecutors to agree with the deprivation

of my freedom. I am not a member of the organization of which im being

prosecuted for. I am prosecuted because i believe in the multiform

subversive action and the anti-systemic struggle. I am an anarchist, i

deny the charges, i stand in solidarity to the comrades of the R.O. C.C.F.

and to all the decent prisoners who continue the struggle from inside the

prisons.



Nikos Vogiatzakis



PS: Nikos Vogiatzakis: Acquitted of all charges due to lack of evidence.

in the first Fire Cells Conspiracy trial (the so-called “Halandri case”),

19 07 2011 athens….



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