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More following the killing of Lambros Fountas - from the Greek press

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:03:00 +0000

from Greek daily KathimeriniDNA tests thwart terror probeDNA tests on drops of blood found at the scene of a shootout last Wednesday in southeastern Athens match the blood of Lambros Fountas, the 35-year-old terrorist suspect killed in the exchange of fire, according to counterterrorism police officers, who had hoped the blood would shed light on the identity of a second man who eluded arrest.The blood found at the scene of the shooting also failed to match blood samples gathered from the sites of recent terrorist attacks and bank robberies, thwarting police efforts to link Fountas to domestic terrorist groups such as Sect of Revolutionaries and Revolutionary Struggle.Police believe that the second suspect is a member of an anti-establishment group with links to another recently formed terrorist group, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Officers who were at the scene of the shooting last Wednesday claim to have recognized the second suspect before he fled.Police have stepped up their investigation into Fountas’s suspected involvement in terrorist activities after a search of his home at the end of last week turned up a detailed map of the capital’s surveillance cameras.Sources told private television channel Mega yesterday that police fear a revenge attack by domestic terrorists for Fountas’s death. These fears were fueled by the discovery of the map, which pinpoints all the capital’s street cameras and includes notes regarding the scope and blind spots of each camera’s lens.Officers have also boosted their search for a possible hideout and have intensified surveillance of the dead man’s relatives and close friends. Seven keys found at Fountas’s home in Ambelokipi, near central Athens, are being tested but have not yet matched any addresses linked to the suspect.Police have also asked the director of the private diagnostic clinic where Fountas was employed for a list of the dates the 35-year-old had taken off work to determine whether they correspond with those of any domestic terrorist attacks.

The Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides: An Inconvenient Truth

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:42:00 +0000

Regardless of what pro-Turkish apologists would have us believe, the issue has never been about whether the Turkish regime carried out genocide. Rather, it has always been about when Turkey would be punished and deliver reparations and restitution to the rightful, indigenous inhabitants.

#218 | “The judge, the jury and the executioner” (photos and video from Athens, today)

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:50:11 +0000

(Video captures the moments when the riot cops attack those gathered in solidarity, unprovoked. The gathered people are heard chanting “the passion for freedom is stronger than all prisons” and, “you’ve got shit inside your helmets, what could you know about freedom” Original Video – More videos at TinyPic As reported earlier, a 28-year old swimming teacher [...]

#217 | Demonstrator from Thursday’s general strike is imprisoned

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:06 +0000

One of those arrested at last Thursday’s general strike demonstration has been ordered in pre-trial detention (imprisonment) by a general attorney in Athens today. The young protester was arrested with no clues by the greek police; many photos/ videos confirm this. Riot police who were guarding the courthouse in Athens attacked the people who had gathered in solidarity; people [...]

One hostage remanded by greek state, others (temporarily) released...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:44:00 +0000

The guy with the dread locks ( https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1143651) has apparently been remanded, as a hostage of the Greek state. The other 4 are temporarily released. Cops violently attacked the solidarity demo outside the courts, one person was hospitalised.

#216 | A communique circulated in athens and thessaloniki 11/3

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:31:46 +0000

Democracy There’s no escape. The big pricks are out. They’ll fuck everything in sight. Watch your back. Harold Pinter (He already said it on February 2003) In the historical point we are now the contradiction of capital is increasingly becoming clear worldwide. Proletarians around the world are in turmoil while their own reproduction becomes more and more difficult. As it is [...]

More from the Greek press

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:05:00 +0000

from Greek daily Kathimerini'Forensics probe terror connectionPolice forensic experts yesterday were comparing the fingerprints and DNA of a 35-year-old man killed in a shootout with police in southeastern Athens on Wednesday with forensic evidence gathered from the sites of various terrorist attacks and bank robberies.Police were examining the contents of a cell phone and laptop found at the home of Lambros Fountas in the district of Ambelokipi, near central Athens. Officers also raided the homes of Fountas’s relatives and those of individuals believed to have had links with the 35-year-old. Among the individuals summoned by police to testify is a woman alleged to have been romantically involved with Fountas over the past three years. According to sources, the woman claims to have had no inkling of the 35-year-old being involved in terrorist activities.Police yesterday also interviewed the director of a private diagnostic clinic in Ambelokipi where Fountas worked. According to the director, Fountas had asked to take Thursday off, saying that he had to take his mother to her hometown. This revelation is believed to have confirmed police suspicions that the 35-year-old had been involved in plans to carry out a terrorist attack on that day.Fountas and another two suspects were seen trying to steal a car from the southeastern district of Dafni early on Wednesday. Fountas was killed in a shootout with police who surprised the suspects.Based on the results of forensic tests carried out on evidence found at the scene, police believe that one of the other two suspects had participated in a recent attack carried out by Revolutionary Struggle.'

Grigoropoulos judge quits trial

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:03:00 +0000

from Greek daily KathimeriniThe judge presiding over the trial of two policemen charged with the murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in Exarchia in December 2008 quit yesterday, complaining that the prosecution lawyers had cast doubts about her impartiality following her questioning of testimony given by a witness to the shooting.“I cannot take anymore. My impartiality has been questioned before the trial has even begun,” Angelita Papavassileiou, said. She condemned the behavior of lawyers on both sides, accusing them of “turning this court into a wrestling ring even though I know you drink coffee together.”Papavassileiou’s withdrawal came after the two prosecution lawyers said they would quit due to the judge’s interpretation of some laws.It is unclear who will preside over the court on Wednesday when the trial is to resume with testimony from a friend of the dead teenager who had been with him on the night of the shooting.

Lambros, Our Comrade! (Greece)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:19:52 +0000

The struggle of those who fight against all forms of power, who are anxious that each moment should not be wasted and who stubbornly maintain the belief that we are capable of creating a free and non-authoritarian world, is as distant from any kind of mythology or fiction as the earth is from the moon. This [...]

Greece: Nine people charged in Athens clashes

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:04:18 +0000

16 people were detained in total in Thursday’s demonstration; of these, nine will face charges (i.e. the detentions were turned into arrests) and will be held, most likely, until tomorrow, to appear before an attorney. Two videos of three of the detentions just outside the Athens University building of Propylea, from Athens IMC, can be [...]

EU, Greece economic crisis and PM Papandreou (by Latuff)

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:12:00 +0000

Editorial cartoon published in Greek newspaper Dromos: http://www.edromos.gr

Anarchist murdered by the police in Athens

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:03:02 +0000

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 of 1995, in Athens.read more

THE STATE IS THE REAL TERRORIST!

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:48:00 +0000

In the absence of further information in English concerning the killing of anarchist comrade Lambros Fountas in a shoot-out with police in Athens, here, with all due reservations, is a press item from Greek daily Kathimerini. The terrorists are the State and its servants!Terrorist 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.

Greece: Second General Strike Leads to Pitched Battles

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:30:46 +0000

March 11 2010 More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens against the austerity measures in a mass protest march that has led to extended battles in the Greek capital...On Thursday March 11 all of Greece came to a 24 hour standstill as a result of the second general strike to be called within less than a month... read more

Nationwide strike in Greece as President of the Socialist International dismantles welfare state

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:56:22 +0000

SERIOUS street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in Athens yesterday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government’s austerity measures.

#215 | Fil Kaler in Athens

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:47:55 +0000

London-based photographer Fil Kaler has been sending photographs from the streets of Athens to Last Hours, view the entire set here.

Anarchist comrade Lambros Fountas

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:10:00 +0000

Honour to anarchist Lambros FountasComrade Lambros was a real fighter and an example for all of us. True rebel, sworn enemy of inaction. Austere, sober, selective, determined. UNTIL THE END, HEAD of himself. Furthermore, he did not fall into the trap of making a contract with his life. A contract with life is for those who get divorced into the selection of legal transaction.Consider these not-so-grand, but honest words, as a last farewell to a comrade and freedom fighter.Let history speak ...Giorgos Voutsis Bogiatzisprison, 11 Μarch 2010After the end of the big demo in Athens today a group of people approached the Ministry of Culture in Bouboulinas from the back street (Zaimi), walked into the parking and set fire to a State van parked in the internal courtyard of the Ministry, in memory of the comrade Lambros.from actforfreedom

The Situation in Greece

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:24:00 +0000

This is best viewed at http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/the-situation-in-greece/ and will be updated from there. Tensions rise once again in the streets of Greece’s major cities. Radicals and Anarchists join workers from around the country in voicing dissent. Airports, hospitals and other public services have shut down for the day as the Greek Government attempt to impose harsh new austerity measures.

#214 | 16 people detained in Athens today, nine of them face charges; videos of some of the arrests

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:58:10 +0000

16 people were detained in total in today’s demonstration; of these, nine will face charges (i.e. the detentions were turned into arrests) and will be held, most likely, until tomorrow, to appear before an attorney. Two videos of three of the detentions just outside the Athens University building of Propylea, from Athens IMC: