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Updated daily: On the night of Saturday 6 December 2008 police in Exarchia Square in Athens shot and killed Alexandros Grigoropoulos, aged 15. Thousands rioted in many cities, including Athens, Thessaloniki, Chania and Patras...

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Korydallos prison, Athens. Jail shooting

Source: Angry News

Police in Korydallos, near Piraeus, yesterday were seeking the two gunmen who shot a guard who had been on duty outside the local jail complex, causing him serious injuries. According to prison staff who witnessed the shooting, the assailants, both Albanians, had served time at the jail. The motive for the attack remained unclear.from Greek daily Kathimerini more >>

Honour to Lambros Foundas (Greece)

Source: 325 anti-prison zine

35 year-old Anarchist comrade shot dead by police in Dafne, Athens, 10 March 2010. We don’t need explanations from assassins to know the reality of our existence. Not one moment of peace for the class enemy – Honour to Lambros Foundas. more >>

#212 | “Good morning, strike!” Live updates from Athens on the General Strike day, 11/3

Source: Occupied London: On the Greek Riots

13.57 GMT+2 Riot police have once attacked the demo, toward its end, at the corner of Panepistimiou Avenue and Sina Street. At least five detentions, the demonstration has been broken off. 12.38 GMT +2 The riot police (MAT) attacked the demo almost as soon as it set off, it seems. There is MAT forces on all [...] more >>

Live updates from Athens on the day of the general strike

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

last night, anarchist Lambros Foundas was assassinated by the cops. Today, the strike demonstration was attacked by riot police minutes after it set off. Updates on the Occupied London blog. more >>

The Greek uprising is truly going European!

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

originally posted at http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/greek-uprising-is-truly-going-european/ It is early in the morning of Tuesday, March 9th. Bemused audiences tuned in to an Athens news station to listen to an evidently uncomfortable police spokesperson. How could he not be? He must explain a rather embarrassing incident: days earlier, on March 5th, the police had tear-gassed Manolis Glezos in the face for trying to prevent a youth’s brutal arrest [photo at http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1139832]. Glezos is 88 years old today; it was almost 70 years ago, on May 30 1941, in Nazi-occupied Athens that he and Apostolos Santas climbed up the Acropolis and tore down the Swastika – an action for which he was arrested and tortured the following year. more >>

Greece: Anarchist murdered by the police in Athens

Source: Denver Anarchist Black Cross

from Occupied London blog: 35 year-old comrade Lambros Foundas was murdered by cops on Wednesday morning in the suburb of Dafni (south Athens). The police claims that he was a “terrorist” and that he was shot while trying to steal a car, and that was carrying firearms. Fountas was one of the over 500 anarchists arrested at [...] more >>

Anarchist murdered by the police in Athens

Source: Infoshop News

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#211 | Anarchist murdered by the police in Athens

Source: Occupied London: On the Greek Riots

35 year-old comrade Lambros Foundas was murdered by cops on Wednesday morning in the suburb of Dafni (south Athens). The police claims that he was a “terrorist” and that he was shot while trying to steal a car, and that was carrying firearms. Fountas was one of the over 500 anarchists arrested at the Polytechnic riots [...] more >>

Another anarchist murdered by cops in Athens, Greece

Source: Angry News

10 March, 2010At 5am cops opened fire on 2 people in dafni, a suburb of Athens.One, an anarchist known to various groups, lies dead. The other is free.Apparently the relevant government ministry and cops have released information and his photo asking for information...from uk indymedia11 March 2010Terrorist link in Dafni shootoutA 35-year-old man who was killed during a shootout with police in the southeastern Athens neighborhood of Dafni early yesterday is thought to have been involved in Greece’s domestic terrorist scene, source said.Lambros Fountas was shot dead when he and an accomplice were seen by two police officers in a patrol car at 4.40 a.m. as they attempted to steal a parked vehicle.Fountas had been known to police since he was arrested during disturbances at the National Technical University of Athens in 1995. He allegedly had contact with members of the Exarchia-based anarchist movement and had been on the anti-terrorist squad’s watch list for a long time.The suspect with whom Fountas was allegedly attempting to steal the car managed to evade arrest but based on forensic tests carried out on evidence found at the scene, police believe that the second man had taken part in a recent attack carried out by Revolutionary Struggle.The urban guerrilla group has carried out a number of attacks in recent years, including firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the US Embassy, murdering a witness protection officer and detonating a car bomb outside the Athens Exchange.Sources suggested that the two men had been stealing the car so that it could be used in an imminent strike.According to the police, the two suspects had already broken into the Seat Ibiza when a patrol car pulled up a short distance away. One of the officers turned on the siren, prompting Fountas and his accomplice to jump out of the vehicle and begin shooting at the policemen. The officers took cover behind their patrol car and in the ensuing exchange of fire, the 35-year-old was killed.A Zastava handgun, with two bullets missing from the chamber, and an assault grenade were found in his possession. He was also carrying a walkie-talkie and wearing two pairs of leather gloves. Police also searched Fountas’s home but did not reveal if they had found any clues.THE ONLY TERRORIST IS THE STATE! NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS..HAVE A NICE JOURNEY MY COMRADE LAMBRO!report from Greek daily Kathimerini, via actforfreedom more >>

Athens - Robin Hood thieves reappear

Source: Angry News

from Greek daily KathimeriniA group of around 20 youths wearing masks and hoods yesterday stormed into a branch of the Sklavenitis supermarket chain in Kaisariani, eastern Athens, and loaded up several trolleys with food before charging past the cash registers and distributing the goods to passers-by in the street. After distributing the goods, the thieves fled. Such raids became a frequent occurence in some Athens neighborhoods last year after self-styled anarchists promoting the “free distribution of goods” claimed responsibility for the first raid of its kind in May 2008. more >>

Greek Revolt updates March 9th & 10th 2010

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

the updates for 9th & 10th of march, many actions to mobilize for tomorrows general strike, 35year old anarchist killed by police, against ordered cop-attack 2000 came to protect the street-blockade of sacked olymic airways workers, more occupations, there is 500 billions of greek money around that proves the lies of crisis and measures, it's class war from above that meets his answers more >>

Long battles erupt in Athens protest march

Source: Infoshop News

Long battles erupted today at the Athens protest march against the measures. The GSEE union boss was heavily beaten by protesters while battles ... more >>

another anarchist murdered by cops in Athens, Greece

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

At 5am cops opened fire on 2 people in dafni, a suburb of Athens. 1, an anarchist known to various groups, lies dead. The other is free. Apparently the relevant government ministry and cops have released information and his photo asking for information... more >>

#210 | “How would it feel if a foreign policeman was beating you up in Athens? (the Greek uprising is truly going European!)

Source: Occupied London: On the Greek Riots

(article written by an Occupied London author for our friends at Last Hours, on the eve of tomorrow’s general strike. Continuous updates and photos, on both websites, tomorrow!) It is early in the morning of Tuesday, March 9th. Bemused audiences tuned in to an Athens news station to listen to an evidently uncomfortable police spokesperson. How [...] more >>

Dark Nights #6 Anarchist & Anti-Prison Newsletter March 2010

Source: 325 anti-prison zine

Dark Nights is an irregularly published anarchist & anti-prison publication of resistance reports and repression news. Existing since 2005 this free newsletter has been printed and read in many places around the world, encouraging replication and collaboration. #6 Contents: Alfredo & Christos denied bail (Greece) European Social Repression (About the arrests in Berlin & Paris) Alfredo accused of second [...] more >>

Long battles erupt in Athens protest march

Source: Anarchist News Dot Org

From Libcom Long battles erupted today at the Athens protest march against the measures. The GSEE union boss was heavily beaten by protesters while battles with the cops developed for 3 hours all across the centre of the city after riot police attacked anti-Nazi resistance symbol Manolis Glezos The demo called by ADEDY, the public sector umbrella union, and GSEE, the private sector umbrella union, started gathering at 12:30 in Syntagma square, after another 10,000 strong demo by Communist Party umbrella union, PAME had ended its own demo and marched to Omonoia square. Soon around 10,000 people gathered in Syntagma, a large number considering there is only a 4 hour stoppage and not a strike today. read more more >>

Greece: Strike to shut down services Thursday

Source: Labour Start - Trade Union News

LabourStart headline - Source: AP more >>

A EUROPEAN IMF?!

Source: Cryptogon

Via: BBC: The European Commission has confirmed that it may set up a version of the International Monetary Fund to bolster the eurozone’s financial stability. Germany and France are leading the move, part of a series of initiatives aimed at avoiding a repeat of the sort of financial crisis engulfing Greece. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed [...] more >>

#209 | Updates for March 7 and 8 (in English und auf Deutsch)

Source: Occupied London: On the Greek Riots

As published on Athens IMC Greek Revolt (7th & 8th March 2010) “… I have tried many times in the past to talk with an authoritan, express the social problems and remind him that a state is constructed in order to serve the citizens and not the bankers and plutocracy. The only responce I ever took [...] more >>